Re: Vin numbers?

[Mark Peele <type53@yahoo.com>]

--- chris <frion@netzero.net> wrote:
> i went to Scirocco.org to try and decode my vin
> number and it wont except it
> it says somthing about it having to be 17 letters
> long...
> were all scirocco's like that, because mine only has
> 9 Numbers and only one
> letter..
> chris

U.S. VINs changed to 17 characters in 1980 (I think)
to the current system.

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't
think the decoder works on the earlier cars.

What year is your car?


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