Correct VIN?
On 18/09/2017 6:08 PM, Steve W. wrote:
> 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??Â* So that would mean that I
>>>> still
>>>> might have used the wrong VIN, right?Â* 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.Â* 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.
>
I'm mainly concerned where they are *stamped* in.
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Xeno
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