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The Salmiya Patrol with three previous plates: Kuwait's plate-consolidation history that MOI Sahel doesn't flag

Kuwait's vehicle market has a quiet feature: plates can be transferred between vehicles, and a single chassis can carry a sequence of plates over its lifetime. The MOI Sahel app shows the current plate and current owner, but reading the chassis-level plate history takes a separate query. A used Nissan Patrol in Salmiya with three prior plates may have been used in commercial fleet rotations, taxi conversion attempts, or insurance-claim resets. How to read the plate-consolidation history before you sign.