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Originally Posted by 1986nate
I was quickly but closely looking through all the 92's, well about half of them, and there doesn't seem to be anything in the VIN that would decipher it being a Canadian or US market car. The sequence is all the same and the 4 numbers between the CX and NH all varies the same as with US models. I guess the only way to know is by the trim plate on the strut tower?  |
Exactly my point, nothing in the VIN indicates it because the Canadian-spec SVX is the same model as the US, falls in the same sequence, with different trim codes for day time lights, heated seats, color, etc.
The best way to know is to record the information when the car is registered, if the car has 50,000km, and the owner is in Canada, it is recorded as Canadian and km.
The 97s I referred to, in the '97 registration thread, the owners were Canadian, and gave mileage in KM. One of those owners '97 is Laguna Blue, which proves the point even more dramatically. Same model, same VIN sequence as US market, non-US color with heated seats, built in the middle of the sequence we are recording.
Nothing in Earl's registration documents will tell you the market, or km vs miles, which is another one of my points. We need to document that, and the rest of the codes on the tower. We need more information on the survey.
In my model thread, I was seeking that kind of information. We must have it to understand the total production differences. The survey there asks for more than VIN sequence, check it out. That thread was to help understand world markets, but now I see it as important in North America.
We are off to a great start documenting North American [US/Canada] production, thanks to Earl!
What we don't know is whether there is another market that has the same engine/trans programming, thus VINs in our sequence
