There's a difference between "tampering"; knowingly altering the vin tag/numbers, or otherwise presenting a car as something it's not, and otherwise extenuating circumstances that might allow for legally correcting a vin related issue.
I bought a car recently which had a new vin tag issued by the Illinois State Police, due to damage done to the dash, which was repaired. The State Police affixed a replacement tag to the door jamb, documented it, and assigned the original vin# to it. Brought the car to South Carolina, and had the State Police check out the car, and they signed off on it after checking it out, and I have a clean, legal South Carolina title. In my case, I bought this car knowing that it's value might be something less than it could be, but I don't care, as I'll not sell it anyway. This car is a 100% numbers matching original car, and damage was done to the vin tag. So what...it's legally registered, and documented.
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Jimmy M
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