New stihl policy - data tagging?

[Eddy_t]

Ugly is deterrent.

 

I'd be surprised if Stihl are doing this. Too much money to be made selling insurance replacements.

 

 

Well they're doing it at my dealer, it's on the datatag website, just wondered if other dealers were. And it wouldn't decrease insurance replacements, just means when they catch the gyppos who robbed it, you get the saw back

 

 

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[Ty Unnos]

When I spoke to Datatag earlier in the year they told me it was a pilot scheme.

 

If it goes well the will rollout to every Stihl dealer in the UK.

 

Hopefully other brands take note and get on board as well.

 

It is not a silver bullet but it does make convictions a lot easier.

 

https://datatag.co.uk/news/news_113.php

[bob]

Do they not just need to register the serial no against a person

I am aware they can get ground of but can they not tuck another serial no away on the fuel tank that if ground would knacker the saw.

Ideally also only be able to buy parts if saw is registered to you

I know I could ring up with a genuine saw number to order parts but at least a deterant

[Eddy_t]

Ideally also only be able to buy parts if saw is registered to you

 

 

So that's going to put spud out of business, and anyone else who can fix a saw! I would only be able to order parts for 2 of my saws?

 

 

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[ArthurBottlesworth]

Ifor williams had problems with trailers being knicked and fitted with "new" chassis plates

Got round it by welding chassis number on trailer before it was galvanised

 

Criminals very clever ....

Eg They enter zero in chassis plate as O ( for orange) results in " no match"

 

In days when car stereos being knicked they found if you stored them in a freezer it reset the stereo password .....we had freezer full of stereos recovered in Liverpool .....going rate for a dodgy stereo was one fix of drugs .....

[Stubby]

Ifor williams had problems with trailers being knicked and fitted with "new" chassis plates

Got round it by welding chassis number on trailer before it was galvanised

 

Criminals very clever ....

Eg They enter zero in chassis plate as O ( for orange) results in " no match"

 

In days when car stereos being knicked they found if you stored them in a freezer it reset the stereo password .....we had freezer full of stereos recovered in Liverpool .....going rate for a dodgy stereo was one fix of drugs .....

 

A story of everyday folk !

[ArthurBottlesworth]

It was great job, incredibly interesting, but couldn't make decent living ......

 

Read book about criminal liverpool in 1980's and what was going on..... Saw a lot of it.....

Manchester Scrapman using £1500 of heroin a week ( in 1980's!) apparently his house was a 24:7 party

Ferraris with their sills stuffed with ecstasy etc etc

[wyk]

Bud of mine uses black light(UV) paint or ink, and covers it with clear nail polish or some sort of similar stuff if I recall. Hit it with the uv light and it shows up clear as day and doesn't look marked at all otherwise.

[Big Beech]

All my saws are post code marked with a soldering iron on all big components.

[Eddy_t]

All my saws are post code marked with a soldering iron on all big components.

 

 

How in buggery do you do that on an 090? There's no plastic, and if it's hot enough to melt magnesium, how do you control it?

 

 

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