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SirAndy
post Jul 26 2007, 02:57 PM
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just a friendly reminder to update your VIN info.

go here:
http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?act=membervins

you can add as many cars as you like. please only add cars you currently own or that you parted out (mark those as "dead") ...

also, try to get as much info as possible, including:

- VIN
- paintcode (badge on drivers side front door jamb)
- build-date (sticker on drivers side rear door jamb)
- chassis number (badge on drivers side front door jamb and stamped into rear trunk floor)
- engine number


and lastly, if you have records of cars that you have come across in junkyards, backyards or even on ebay, please send that info to *me* in a PM.
i'll add those to the database manually so they don't have any owner assigned to them.

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post Jul 28 2007, 01:49 PM
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QUOTE(SirAndy @ Jul 26 2007, 12:57 PM) *

just a friendly reminder to update your VIN info.

go here:
http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?act=membervins

you can add as many cars as you like. please only add cars you currently own or that you parted out (mark those as "dead") ...

also, try to get as much info as possible, including:

- VIN
- paintcode (badge on drivers side front door jamb)
- build-date (sticker on drivers side rear door jamb)
- chassis number (badge on drivers side front door jamb and stamped into rear trunk floor)



and lastly, if you have records of cars that you have come across in junkyards, backyards or even on ebay, please send that info to *me* in a PM.
i'll add those to the database manually so they don't have any owner assigned to them.

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I, too, would also like to see the VIN list "fleshed out" with the colors and the cars' disposition where that information is currently missing.

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post Jul 28 2007, 04:24 PM
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I just updated mine, deleted the Chalon and added the new one. I wanted to add the 72 parts car but it's fate is still undecided and I cannot get to the drivers side to open the door to get the numbers. I will update it once I move the car.
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post Jul 30 2007, 12:48 AM
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Updated mine Andy... Added the Bumblebee and the color for the Silver car. I will get the rest of it later.
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I'm really behind on this... I need to compile past and current cars tonight.

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post Aug 1 2007, 02:59 AM
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I updated mine too, it's only a shame that each time you want to update for example the colour or the comment, you have to start all over.
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post Aug 1 2007, 11:43 AM
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QUOTE(Belgium914 @ Aug 1 2007, 12:59 AM) *

it's only a shame that each time you want to update for example the colour or the comment, you have to start all over.

uhm, no you don't ... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)



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Your Own VINs: Click on your VIN number to edit/change/update your personal VIN information ...


when you go to the VIN page, you'll see your own VINs that you added listed on the top.
simply click on the VIN number you'd like to change and a page comes up that allows you to make changes and save them ...
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post Aug 1 2007, 01:27 PM
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I assume that this would allow a correction to the VIN as well?
If so, we can encourage some changes to the invalid VIN's we find.
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post Aug 1 2007, 01:38 PM
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QUOTE(davep @ Aug 1 2007, 11:27 AM) *

I assume that this would allow a correction to the VIN as well?
If so, we can encourage some changes to the invalid VIN's we find.

yes, any field can be edited ...


btw. if there are any volunteers to help out with keeping the records up to date,
PM me and i'll add you to the list of VIN-Admins.

a VIN Admin can add/edit/delete *any* VIN profile.
add new ones without owners, flag them as "dead", change color, chassis number and any other info for any VIN in the database ...

any takers?
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post Aug 2 2007, 01:37 AM
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I unfortunatly missed on two of the cars I sent to the bone yard, but I have two others I wil add tomorrow. My running 914s are registered already.

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post Aug 2 2007, 06:53 PM
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i wish id keep the vin on a parted 914. i know the year so i put in the first part, not that that helps
thanks for the sites upkeep efforts
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post Aug 5 2007, 03:26 PM
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post Aug 5 2007, 03:43 PM
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post Aug 5 2007, 04:51 PM
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keep 'em coming guys ...
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All these thread bumps finally motivated me to get the chassis numbers from both cars. I was surprised that the 1970 chassis number was 132xxx, so much lower than the 1974 was 832xxxx. Do we have production ranges of chassis numbers by year? I looked around the info pages, but might have missed them...
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post Aug 5 2007, 07:10 PM
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Steve, the body/chassis 3 for the 914/6 is completely different than the 914/4. The 914/6 always has a 13 prefix, followed by a 1 for 1971 and 2 for 1972, then 4 digits for the sequence #. No 0 was used for the 1970 MY for some reason, but the dash which has a similar code number did have the 0 for the 1970 MY. The last 4 digits (the sequence #) should be somewhat close to the last 4 digits of your VIN.

The 914/4 OTOH, has the form xxy9zzz where xx is the week of the year ( 1 or 01 to 52, y is the day of the week (1 to 5) and zzz is the daily sequence # (starts at 501 from beginning in 1969 to about week 40 in 1974, then changes to 001).

Andy (correction required for your first post)

At the time that the chassis number changed from base 9500 to base 9000 the number was no longer stamped into the rear trunk floor, but was instead stamped into a tag that was riveted to the support under the right headlight bucket.

When entering data, please copy the info exactly as you find it on the car. There are known errors in the data plates such as the wrong VIN punched into the safety compliance decal, the wrong Karmann badge attached to the body, the wrong paint code or errors in the body number, even the VIN stamped into the right front fender can be totally different, particularly if it is a replacement body from the factory. If the numbers do not match then either someone has fudged the cars history, the factory goofed, or you may have something that needs some investigation.


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post Aug 6 2007, 05:43 PM
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Andy,
I just completed the information for both of my cars. Any chance to put up a chassis number page so we know who owns the next chassis off the line?
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Lots of cool info about the body numbers, thanks. I had worried that my 1970 chassis number was spurious because it was so different from my '74 and the VIN plate is missing. But now it looks like my 74's chassis number is the oddball. Taken from the Karmann plate it's 8329612, which doesn't quite compute. I doubt they had a week 83, or if it was week 32 I doubt they had a day 8 of the week. Unless they really liked the Beatles or something...

I'll have to check the rear trunk stamp, since the build date is 8/73...
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Any chance to put up a chassis number page so we know who owns the next chassis off the line?

We may be able to do that at some point. In the meantime, you can contact me for that information.
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