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So you get rear-ended and the guy drives off. You call up your insurance and get set up to have work done on the vehicle.

You take it in and on Monday they say your car is ready so you go to pick it up. The work looks good. On Wednesday they call you again and say your car is ready. You go to the shop again and they hand you a car with the same make, model, color, license plate, prior unrelated damage, and things that you had left inside. Do you say something?

So you get rear-ended and the guy drives off. You call up your insurance and get set up to have work done on the vehicle. You take it in and on Monday they say your car is ready so you go to pick it up. The work looks good. On Wednesday they call you again and say your car is ready. You go to the shop again and they hand you a car with the same make, model, color, license plate, prior unrelated damage, and things that you had left inside. Do you say something?

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Without the title it's a worthless scrap metal

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Not really. You could use the title-less car with your plates. It isn't like a cop is going to check the VIN if you get pulled over. Drive up the miles on it and then store it for parts when you switch over to your original car.

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It isn't like a cop is going to check the VIN if you get pulled over.

That's how I learned what a VIN was, asking a buddy what's this little plate with numbers on the dash that the cop looked at.

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Has the same VIN.

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It has the same VIN number.

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then whoever tries to register it is gonna get arrested for fraud

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Just take the other registration with you. It matches an identical car with the right VIN.

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I would say something on the phone and would not go in, guess I'd be out of a free car.

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So not the same car?

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Part of me says take the free car, but the part of me that owns this place says nah you gotta figure out which car is actually yours, you can't tell the difference if it has the same items inside it and is the same color make am model. So I guess really how could you know which one is actually yours? Are the miles on the odometer the same? Do they feel the same driving? You obviously have to figure out which one is your car before you can say something.

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Same odomoter reading, same smell inside, same VIN number.

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Do you still currently have possession of the first car you picked up?

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They'll figure it out sooner or later when someone complains about never getting their car back, right?

I would still make them come pick up not-your-car since it was their mistake.