It is only vehicles in Canada and the USA that do not have ZZZ. My TriStar, a Swedish market vehicle, is for format WV2ZZZ24Z.... is the norm outside of North America. These are supposed to be refered to as ENGINE, RESTRAINT and CHECK DIGITS. Every time I register a European vehicle in Canada the motor vehicles people say the VIN can't posssibly be correct as the check digit is wrong... that's because of the ZZZ thingie. The really interesting thing is the "hidden VIN" on the North American vehicles here DOES NOT MATCH the VIN on the dash! At the front passenger jack support is the vehicles VIN stamped into the sheet metal. Your dash might read WV2B0H245... but the "hidden VIN" will read WV2ZZZ24Z... David Marshall Fast Forward Automotive Inc. 4356 Quesnel-Hixon Road Quesnel BC Canada V2J 6Z3 http://www.fastforward.ca mailto:sales@fastforward.ca Phone: (250) 992 7775 FAX: (250) 992 1160 - Vanagon Accessories and Engine Conversions - Vanagon, Transporter and Iltis Sales and Importation - European Lighting for most Volkswagen models
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-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf Of Malcolm Stebbins Sent: October 16, 2005 12:10 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: VIN with ZZZ ?
I'm looking at a European van that the owner says has a VIN of: WV2zzz25zng002290 I've never seen or heard of a VIN with ZZZ?? there is no such possiblity of ZZZ on the vanagon.com info sheet at: http://www.vanagon.com/info/vin/ Any ideas? Thanks Malcolm
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