fc year identification
 

ive been tryn 2 determin the year of my fc, i have found that this can be done by refering the last digit of the vin num

G=1986
H=1987
J=1988
K=1989
L=1990
M=1991

but mine ends with a 1, anyone have any ideas why this is???

Are you sure you're looking in the right place? Both my cars are '86s and have a G in the 10th digit place, followed by 7 numbers (serial number I guess). I don't have any other year cars to refer to at the moment, but I bet the 10th place is where you should check.

yeah im deffinately lookin in the right place, i only have the ten digit vin number, no serial number, its a japanese import so weather thats got something to with it, i dont know!!!

is your car a series 4 or 5 that will narrow down the choices.

by japanese import what do you mean? it's right hand drive?

its an s4, yeah right hand drive im in australia

Ah, I see. Well, it's definitely 86-88 :lol:. Are the door stickers intact?

what door stickers, theres the tire pressure one but most of its in japenese

The vin number checks you're finding are for usdm cars, I'm pretty sure that for all other countries I'm almost positive that the vins read differently. This may be a stupid question but don't you have the title? What's it say lol.

sorry, what do you mean by the title??? it was an australian site i got it from

Why don't you post your entire VIN so that we can figure it out?

Aren't you the one that asked earlier?
If so, wasn't it deducted that it was a 1986 model cause of the really low serial #?


-Ted

yeah it was me and no it wasnt confirmed that it was an 86 [couldnt find any info to confirm that] i posted it again because of the letter referal system i found!!!

By title I mean the piece of paper that says you own the car. The one you need to register the car for road use. And did they not tell you what year it was when you bought it?

yeah the guy i baught it off siad its an 88 but i cant find any proof of that, the rego says its an 84 witch it obviously cant be being an fc, i did a regostration check before i baught it to make sure it hasnt been re birthed and its fine