[MultiMopars]

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cars come with option tags for a reason . otherwise mfg's would not spend the time and money to install them in the first place. the whole reason for my intrest in these post was that people are paying big money for cars that claim to have origional tags, paperwork and documentation. even though i agree with you that it really does not matter to me, the truth is that many buyers are not experts and the experts that make theese claims are selling snake oil . otherwise to knowingly/willfully change the tags and sell a car based on this representation would be fraud, and that is no civil matter .

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Mopar fender tags are not there for the buyer/customer/owners. They are there for internal purposes of the factory during assembly time. Buyers of new cars look at the window sticker for the equipment of the car, not raising the hood and trying to decode a fender tag to know what it had for equipment, not to mention it had a limited amount of info compared to all the car typically had. It is only the hobby that has decided to assign interest in the fender tag. Often times they are lost during repaints or body damage. People sometimes have them reproduced when missing. Sometimes when people restore these cars they add factory options for their own enjoyment and preference and add these options to the fender tag when repoed. It is seldom done to deceive a future buyer. Any future buyer that is educated enough to decode the fender tag and care if the car is true to the tag owes it to themselves to question the seller about it. If the seller lies about it, and that is later PROVEN, they MAY have some type of grounds for a law suite.

Mis-representation or deception regarding possible differences in how a car was equipped, painted, etc. is different than criminal fraud. It is not like changing a V.I.N. that could completely change the model and engine of the car. I doubt that you would have plausibe grounds to charge criminal fraud in this type of case.