Robert Lavigne

Okay, so here is the situation. My window VIN has a North American VIN AA2 (I live in Canada), however, the VIN inside my engine compartment (near battery) is clearly a ROW (rest of the world) VIN with the ZZZ and a different serial number.

Anyone else noticed this on theirs? Is it a scenario where the North American cars are revinned when they arive?

Rob

Skip

I think I've heard that one inside the engine bay referred to as the "preproduction" VIN... like the one they stamp on the body before the destination is set. The one on the A-pillar is the actual VIN after the car is configured. Sumthin like that anyway... your car doesn't have a personality disorder, they're all like that.

Skip

Robert Lavigne

As usual Skip you are the man with the answers. How about shifting over to my Boost Enhancer post and see what you can do there

944LT1

Their not all like that...My car is ROW and has no numbers in the window.

nwehtje944

has no numbers?1?, do you have a pic. I have to see this.

emilysgranny

LT; be careful .IT is a fed law that the vin number must be there or in a visible area on the dash. Your 's may have had the windshield or a pillar replaced and the tag was not replaced.

deni durrell

kinda like the chassis are mfg'd fo rthe whole world, but when the engines and exterior/bumpers/winsdcreen are installed then it becomes specific. you didn't notice that the numbers are still similar (suffixes).

out...

Es3L

my 83 944 has both engine/dash vin with zzz. also has the c76 option...what the hell is the c76 option. its Not available according to lists.

Robert Lavigne

Actually, the serial number portion (last 4) are totally different on the ROW (engine compartment) and NA (window) VINs.

Olli Snellman

Robert is right.My '88 951 is US. model and it is like Robert mentioned.However i used to have euro spec (ROW) '87 944 which did not have visible VIN number.Most of the cars here in europe still don't have them.If i can remeber correctly only Ford's have visible VIN's on euro models.

Olli
'88 951

Tom

My 87 944S has the same sequential number on the official number (WPOAA. . .) as on the firewall build number (WPOZZZ. . .). If these numbers are totally different I think that should be a matter of concern to get documented as if you have to make a claim, the insurance company may use the discrepancy to try to reduce or escape payment.

Robert Lavigne

[quote]Originally posted by Tom:
<strong>My 87 944S has the same sequential number on the official number (WPOAA. . .) as on the firewall build number (WPOZZZ. . .). If these numbers are totally different </strong><hr></blockquote>

Actually, I just rechecked and the serial portion are the same. There was a scratch on one of the numbers making the 5 look like a six.

At this point the only difference is
WPOAA0954GN15xxxx
WPOZZZ95ZGN15xxxx

So side question, is the serial number that I have unique to the 951 series (vs. shared across other 944 of the year?). If so, is it a fair statement that I can tell by the serial number a what point in the sequence of 951 for 86 mine was built (it is in the 5000's)?