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Old 04-18-2016, 06:26 AM   #12
Keith Seymore
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Re: VIN tag # vs title # question

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Originally Posted by SS Tim View Post
These are generated numbers but illustrate the concept.

Door plate. CE142Z100001 a pickup either body style

Title...... CE132Z100001 a chassis cab

Since any assembly plant only used a sequence number (last six) once a year one, of the above numbers would be a typo. Since the plate is stamped at the factory and the DMV was involved in the other, guess which I believe.

So based on what you have told us it was a pickup cab, provided it has the correct and unaltered rivets. The title is simply a case of an errant character.

If you had the original frame the frame number would be in this case 2Z100001.

In any event the engine was not VIN coded. If there is a VIN code on the engine (below the engine assembly code) it came from a car or a later vehicle.

What you do is up to you. But technically that title does not match the VIN plate/SPID and should be corrected. However it may be an easy "no problem" to a full blown vehicle inspection and verification. If it were my money I would not pay more than parts prices without a valid correct title.

On a final note all 72 VIN should be preceeded by a C (Chevy) or a T (GMC). So a Chevy would be in this example case CCE142Z1000001. Hopefully you just dropped the first character in your original posting.
Joining late but for what it's worth I concurr with Tim.

Said differently: There might be multiple VIN sequences in use per plant (one for Chevy, one for GMC, one for Cadillac, for example) but once that sequential number is used in a model year per plant - it's gone. It won't come up again.

That is a control which is in place to make sure that there are never two vehicles produced with the same VIN (a Federal regulatory requirement).

That means any discrepancy in the prefix portion of the VIN is a straight up typo or transcription error. It should be fixed and the logical person to get that done would be the current owner.

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