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Registration from chassis number.

  • 01-02-2023 11:53pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 471 ✭✭


    Hi would anyone be able to find out if a golf gti chassis number WVWZZZ17ZDW290729 was Irish. It is for sale in uk as previously registered out of uk . I suspect it could have been Irish can someone tell me thank you



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,341 ✭✭✭w124man


    I put that code into a couple of VIN decoders and it keeps coming up as a 1100 cc three door



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭Type 17


    If you had access to the car, you could tell - Irish type 17's never had rear foglights, and there was never a wire in the rear or dash looms for it. Even if a rear foglight was retro-fitted to an '83 Irish car to pass a UK MOT, the added wire would be obvious, unless the rear and dash looms were changed for UK ones (extremely unlikely, unless the loom was changed for other reasons).



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭Type 17


    I doubt that those VIN decoders are that knowledgeable, as there's no info in a VW VIN on which trim-level/model of Mk1 Golf the VIN belongs to.

    For entertainment's sake, here's the info contained in the VIN:

    WVWZZZ17ZDW290729

    W - Made in Germany

    VW - Volkswagen

    ZZZ - blank filler characters

    17 - type 17 (Mk1 Golf)*

    Z - blank filler character

    D - 83 model year (Aug '82 - July '83)

    W - Made in the Wolfsburg plant

    290729 - the 290,729th Mk1 Golf (of all trim levels) made in Wolfsburg during the 1983 model year

    PS: On the strut behind the grille, under the bonnet latch, there is a body plate, with a bar-code (to be read on the production line) with a long number underneath, and the first three digits define the week number (of the calendar year, not the model year), and the day number (1 = Monday, 2 = Tue, etc), so you can confirm what date the body was completed and painted (the car might have been fully completed that same day, or the one after).

    *The 1 defines a VW passenger car. The digit after defines the model - others include: 4 - Karmann Ghia, 5 - Golf Cabrio, 6 - Mk1 Jetta, 7 - Mk1 Golf, 8 - Mk2 Jetta, 9 - Mk2 Golf. Since single digits are exhausted, later Models use a letter, eg: 1K - Mk5 Golf.



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    Zzzz

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,341 ✭✭✭w124man


    The one I use for Mercedes cars is absolutely spot on. Even gives the order number it came in on



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭Type 17


    Merc VINs (and pre-1980 chassis numbers) give a lot more info, not to mention the Data Card, if you get it with a car's documents.

    Which VIN decoder do you use? - I have a few VINs to check.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,341 ✭✭✭w124man




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