On 18/09/2017 5:14 AM, Stormin' Norman wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Sep 2017 14:29:52 -0400, micky >
> wrote:
>
>> Looking to buy a car, check the VIN on carfax, and the repair history
>> there conflicts with the seller's story about where the car has been.
>>
>> So maybe I copied the VIN wrong, probably just one digit, but the make
>> and model of the car that carfax reports is the same as the one I'm
>> looking at. Does that mean I have the right VIN?
>>
>> OTOH aren't the last 6 or so digits just a sequential number from the
>> assembly line that makes, at least for a period of time, just one make
>> and model, and maybe 2 or 3 submodels?? So that would mean that I still
>> might have used the wrong VIN, right? If I got the last digit, or even
>> the next to the last, I might have the car that came off the line next,
>> right?
>
> A suggestion; in the future, use your phone to take a picture of the
> ID plate on the car. I have been doing this with all my equipment, so
> that when I need to find a manual online, I don't have to rely on my
> nearly indecipherable handwriting.
>
>
The VIN can be on up to 3 places in the car. The plate is one, a typical
stamped in number on the vehicle chassis is another often hidden under a
carpet flap. On some vehicles there is a third stamped VIN on, say, a
chassis rail externally. On a Hilux, for instance, it is on the chassis
rail behind the front RHS wheel. All locations must have a matching VIN.


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