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Hey all,

I was just having a good troll this this arvo and noticed a few new "Some F#$@%@ stole my car" threads.

Now i'm kinda sick of seeing these, not sick of you guys posting them, but sick of you needing to. That said i dont think we'll ever see the end of it all.

But it did give me an idea. Most of you who have had a car nicked and got it back have normally reported that all the nifty bits had been stripped, and thos who never find theres again, well we can only gather that everythings been stripped.

Being the bored coder that i am i'm always looking for an excuse to put a database together. So i'm thinking of making a parts register.

This register would contain just a few fields per entry...

Owner

Contact

Part

Serial

Distinguising Marks/Comments

Status

The idea being that when you buy say a new HKS Turbo you'd log in and register the part using the details above.

When someone goes to buy something online (ebay or on here or anywhere) they can ask for the serial or a pic of the part and search the register to make sure theres no match. If there isnt, you can happily buy the part knowing everything should be ok.

If on the other hand you find Serial XXX-XXX-XXX in there and listed as stolen, you not only know that its hot, but you can also aid the person who spent their hard earnt cash on it in finding the knob who nicked it.

Anyway thats the idea. Feed me back people, it may have flaws but u can help fix em.

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hmm, im against that whole concept, no offence intended but if you think about it, you are building a database of all performance parts and storing the parts with names and addresses, if anyone was to get hold of that information...talk about a parts shopping list! leaving you liable as the owner to anything that gets pinched also as you would have complete access to the database...

im not knocking your idea, i have considered it also but i don't think it would be wise to go out and create an online list of "who'se got what in their car with their address" style database...if it was a government department like the police book register for prescribed parts...then fine, but one person having access to a complete list of parts is dangerous, not only for you but everyone that uses it...and you would be the first on the list if someone had their stuff pinched being that you would have access to the information

hehe, not meant to offend or knock your idea, but it is the other side of the coin style view of the dangers of such a system...i too have considered making something like this but opted against for that reason

cheers :)

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