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Re: V.I.N
Posted to Educators Forum on 10/5/2001

Hi Eran,

I have spent many hours "hands-on" with factory manuals decoding some of this info. I can tell you that there is no "generic" approach, as the vin decode varies with make year and model. Even the VIN-8=engine, and VIN-10=year is NOT written in stone... Login to read more.