Don't know if this is true...but it certainly seems plausible.....
About your License Plate Sticker - from a friend
*Yet another dirty trick foisted on legitimate drivers:_
While my car was in to have the front brakes renewed on Friday March 27th, one of the mechanics commented that someone had stolen my sticker.
When I asked what he was talking about, he took me to the back of the car to show me where someone had removed my newly applied February 2010 vehicle validation sticker.
Most of us simply clean off the surface of the previous sticker and put the new one on top of it. That way, all a thief has to do is to pry off the layered stack, clean up the back and glue your sticker onto their license plate, or worse, sell it to someone else to apply it to theirs. This allows them to avoid the need to bother about paying for an Emissions Test, paying the renewal fee of $74.00, or the new "Miller" private vehicle tax (only in Toronto) and, by extension, probably drive uninsured. Next year they will simply repeat the process with another stolen sticker. Unless they are stopped by the police for some reason and the ownership validation sticker number is checked against the umber on the sticker on the license plate, they may well get away with it for years.
On Monday I went to the Ministry of Transportation to obtain my new sticker; they indicated that this is quite common. The replacement cost was $7.00 - once again the victim takes the hit.
This time I scraped the sticker location completely clean of old stickers, washed the site with lighter fluid, and then applied the new one and rubbed it down well. The lady that served us indicated that once the site is cleaned off and the new sticker is applied and well rubbed
down, if you take a sharp Exacto knife or something similar and score lines vertically and horizontally across the sticker, it guarantees that it can only be removed in small, useless pieces. This tip came from a customer who had been hit, as we were.
Our new sticker is now in place and well scored. Incidentally, as the license plate is aluminum, there is no risk of rusting due to the scoring.
Whenever you replace your validation sticker my advice is to completely remove all traces of the old sticker(s) and follow the process above. At least then they will have to steal someone else's sticker.
Please advise your friends. Note: While this happened in Toronto, it could happen anywhere in the province or for that matter anywhere that uses a similar validation sticker.
About your License Plate Sticker - from a friend
*Yet another dirty trick foisted on legitimate drivers:_
While my car was in to have the front brakes renewed on Friday March 27th, one of the mechanics commented that someone had stolen my sticker.
When I asked what he was talking about, he took me to the back of the car to show me where someone had removed my newly applied February 2010 vehicle validation sticker.
Most of us simply clean off the surface of the previous sticker and put the new one on top of it. That way, all a thief has to do is to pry off the layered stack, clean up the back and glue your sticker onto their license plate, or worse, sell it to someone else to apply it to theirs. This allows them to avoid the need to bother about paying for an Emissions Test, paying the renewal fee of $74.00, or the new "Miller" private vehicle tax (only in Toronto) and, by extension, probably drive uninsured. Next year they will simply repeat the process with another stolen sticker. Unless they are stopped by the police for some reason and the ownership validation sticker number is checked against the umber on the sticker on the license plate, they may well get away with it for years.
On Monday I went to the Ministry of Transportation to obtain my new sticker; they indicated that this is quite common. The replacement cost was $7.00 - once again the victim takes the hit.
This time I scraped the sticker location completely clean of old stickers, washed the site with lighter fluid, and then applied the new one and rubbed it down well. The lady that served us indicated that once the site is cleaned off and the new sticker is applied and well rubbed
down, if you take a sharp Exacto knife or something similar and score lines vertically and horizontally across the sticker, it guarantees that it can only be removed in small, useless pieces. This tip came from a customer who had been hit, as we were.
Our new sticker is now in place and well scored. Incidentally, as the license plate is aluminum, there is no risk of rusting due to the scoring.
Whenever you replace your validation sticker my advice is to completely remove all traces of the old sticker(s) and follow the process above. At least then they will have to steal someone else's sticker.
Please advise your friends. Note: While this happened in Toronto, it could happen anywhere in the province or for that matter anywhere that uses a similar validation sticker.
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