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Originally Posted by irox
Interesting mystery, I had to dig into it. Turns out it is a check digit use to ensure the VIN is valid. Basically a single character hash of the VIN, which should be 0-9 or X. If any number of letter on a VIN was entered incorrectly the 9th digit would help detected that.
You can test it yourself with this VIN check digit calculator:
https://vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov/decoder/C...3e1eaxhf000316 |
Cool. So not a random wasted number - a check/hash digit.
Thanks!