Xeno wrote:
> 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.
>
>

More than that on a modern vehicle. Half of the modules have the VIN
written into memory.

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Steve W.