Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:42:13 -0500
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From: Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject: Re: Strange place for an identification plate on 91 Vanagon.
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---- jordanvw@AOL.COM wrote:
> theyre ALL on the outide of the RF door on westys.<
Hmmmm ........ .
I'm looking at page 151 of my _Vanagon/Transporter Volkswagen Owner's Manual_ that came with my '91 Volkswagen Vanagon GL Campmobile. There is a photograph of "The Vehicle Identification Label." It looks very much like the one that Trevor gave a link to in his query, except mine appears to be paper without a metalized surface. I quote from my book:
"The Vehicle Identification Label is located on the left side under the dashboard. The label contains the following information:
1. Production control no.
2. Vehicle identification no.
3. Type code number
4. Type designation
5. Engine and transmission code letter
6. Paint no./interior
7. Optional equipmennt nos.
Vehicle data 2 to 7 are also found in your Maintenance booklet."
My label, located as described, contains all that information, in the order listed and as shown on the photograph in the manual.
On page 2 of the same manual, there is this statement: _ "Your Owner's Manual applies to all Vanagon/Transporter models currently sold in the USA and Canada."_ Again, the manual says, __"all"__.
I also have a _Camper/Multivan Supplement to Volkswagen Owner's Manual_. This second book, which describes all the camper equipment in detail, makes no mention anywhere concerning any vehicle identification label.
I can only go by the data available to me from examining my camper and the documentation provided to me by Volkswagen through the medium of the manuals, but it looks to me like the identification label described by Trevor for his '91 camper as being on the outside of the right-side door is, so far as my vehicle is concerned, under the dash below the fuse box, where I've seen it and where the owner's manual states that it is. There is no physical evidence nor is there any documentation of such a label being on the outside of any door. I accept that Trevor's case is related to his vehicle being sold in Japan, and not in the U.S.
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> What trevor said was that the sticker (plate) is on the _outside_ of the
> assenger door. I don't think he said (or implied) that the sticker itself was
> nything out of the ordinary, just its placement. DMc
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Sent: Sat, Apr 17, 2010 2:19 pm
> Subject: Re: Strange place for an identification plate on 91 Vanagon.
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> ---- Richard Golen <rgolen@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> That plate, actually a metalic sticker, is found on every Vanagon Westfalia.
> t is the factory serial plate.
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> Ric
> > Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 10:53:44 -0600
> > From: gneiss9@GMAIL.COM
> > Subject: Strange place for an identification plate on 91 Vanagon.
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> >
> What trevor said was that the sticker (plate) is on the _outside_ of the
> assenger door. I don't think he said (or implied) that the sticker itself was
> nything out of the ordinary, just its placement. DMc
> > > My vanagon has it's Identification Plate on the outside of the
> > passenger door. I know this is not common but am wondering if anyone
> > else has seen this before? My Van spent most of it's life in Japan,
> > (imported only a year ago into N.America) and can only assume that
> > this is a regulation in Japan for foreign vehicles!?!
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> > http://s1003.photobucket.com/albums/af155/onsight2003/?
> > action=view¤t=DSCN6607.jpg
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> > Trevor Reynolds
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> > '91 GL 2Wheel drive, AT, Westy "SEN".
> > http://westfalia-91restore.blogspot.com/
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