Vin plate info and TBDs

One will find the axle designation on the door post build date plate. find the axle code and any dealer can decode it for you.

mike

Mike Hunter proclaimed to alt.autos.toyota ...

No plate on anything door like on mine. And my local dealers wont even discuss any number other than my VIN. No information is given out, they wont even give out part numbers until you buy the part.

Coyoteboy wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@bt.com:

No it's not. VIN characters have very different meanings worldwide. Our Polish friend is evidently either unaware of this, or doesn't care and is just trying to get hits to his site.

Try this one:

By the way, the Polack's assertion that the VIN reveals all is *wrong*. Find the information stamped into the firewall. This location reveals model, tranny and trim info not included in the VIN. Ray O may be able to decipher this info for you.

The axle code in not found in the VIN. Try looking on the firewall for the plate. If you can not find one on the car you will need to open the rear

mike

Tegger wrote in news:Xns9916D360AC62Ctegger@207.14.116.130:

Or just

I haven't looked at it for a while, but IIRC it is JT2AE86L6F0031334 From what I *DO* know, Japan, Toyota Corolla 86 (I was told the L meant LSD) Check Digit 1985 Supra Plants, Japan and then the sequence number.

Funny thing is, it's called a Hachiroku (86), and everyone refers to the AE86, but the actual model number for the GTS was AE88! I remember this from looking at the plate under the hood. The VIN indicates an AE86, but the Model # on the plate is AE88. And I did see somewhere on the web the

So, actually, we've been wrong all this time, and I *should be "Hachihachi"!

Since you cannot tell whether a vehicle has an LSD by the VIN, you have to know the accessory codes for the vehicle.

I never learned how to decipher the build plate on the firewall. (I skipped District Parts Mgr and went straight to District Service Manager). I remember the format being something like AE86L-BLMHQA or something like that, and the alphabet soup after the series designation had the extra info.

Toyota puts that info on the firewall plate. The door plate only has the VIN, production date, GVWR, and tire inflation specs.

The "L" is for liftback. If it was a "C", then it would be a coupe.

The "F" before the sequence number means that it is a 1985 model year.

The series indicator for the parts department is slightly different from the VIN, which is different from the distribution model number.

Agent Hachihachi!

Mike Hunter proclaimed to alt.autos.toyota ...

I never said it was :) I said it was found on the VIN plate, which it is :)

"Ray O" proclaimed to alt.autos.toyota ...

But you would have thought they would have a database of the parts that went onto each car. Since they can tell me the colour, the trim and many of the other optional extras etc etc But the Diff isnt listed differently IIRC. I'll check in a minute :)

There is a database of factory and port-installed parts and accessories that are installed in each car, basically the information that is on the window label when the car is sold new. If LSD was an extra cost option, then it would be in the database. I believe that the database is only available to dealers for 10 model years.

I know this very good. This site has an expert's system that can recognize different decoding depend of country of origin, model and even model year etc. For Toyota there is 19 ways to decode VIN number in autobaza system.

just trying to get hits to his site.

I'm care about this, and if you can show me a better VIN decoder for all car model than autobaza.pl I'll be thankful.

Best Regards G

snipped-for-privacy@gazeta.pl proclaimed to alt.autos.toyota ...

The problem is a site that claims to do something, then fails to pull it off or, worse, gives out bad information isnt helpful at all. For example if I used that to find out the body type of a car with no image associated and it returned 5 doors (as it does with my 3 door) it could give me wrong info that I might use to buy something by mistake.

That said, its not easy to produce a foolproof answer to everything.

It make one wonder why so many in this NG are down of the President so often, doesn't it?

mike

Mike Hunter proclaimed to alt.autos.toyota ...

:-)