Theoretically, how illegal is VIN swapping if you own both vehicles

I'm an idiot, I understand what you meant.

so hypothetically, if the plate matches the vin, there no real way to be caught with a vin swapped vehicle?

He can always part them out. Probably would get more money.

If you don't swap the plates, you could get caught if the plate doesn't match the vin of the car it was registered to.

vin is on other places besides the little plate

little windshield plate plate, firewall tag, and where else? hypothetically.

The way I understand vin swapping is that there are multiple places they stamp the vin on modern cars, I'm sure you can find where your hypothetical model's are with a quick search.
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Why would you do that?

It's still fraud.

And there's no practical way to catch VIN swaps provided that you at least transferred over the dash number since that's the one that they look for. If some body of authority gets a warrant to search the rest of your car for a VIN because they have some reason to suspect you, you could be in trouble especially with the stamped VIN on the chassis.

I don't think it's illegal to have a different number on the engine or transmission because those go out all the time and can be replaced by some junkyard pull. However they will look at that as being suspicious.

The real question is why would you even bother swapping VIN on cars you already own.

>hypothetically
What are the hypothetical benefits of this hypothetical vin swap?

somewhere on the engine block, either a plate or stamped