Finding the birthday/place of your van
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Finding the birthday/place of your van
Found a post by somebody(sorry cant remember who) about how to work out the birth history of your van... As usual it's never so straightforward !!.. So here's mine
43 7 6090 UY 2538 C7
X2X2BB 573
HG 034 246
Some I can workout , but the day seems to be the 7 ( Sunday) the explanation says no production on weekends ?
Also says westfalias don't have this plate .. But mine does!
Does this mean something is a bit dubious??
43 7 6090 UY 2538 C7
X2X2BB 573
HG 034 246
Some I can workout , but the day seems to be the 7 ( Sunday) the explanation says no production on weekends ?
Also says westfalias don't have this plate .. But mine does!
Does this mean something is a bit dubious??
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Re: Finding the birthday/place of your van
Baxter's blog here: http://www.brickwerks.co.uk/index.php/blog
not sure it spells it all out but at least something to go on.
not sure it spells it all out but at least something to go on.
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Re: Finding the birthday/place of your van
Thanks but that's what I was using, production dates 1-5 mon-fri... I have a 7 .. (Sunday)??
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Re: Finding the birthday/place of your van
Maybe yours is like those designer items made at the weekend in chinese factory's and sold on the black market.All the right stuff,but not officially made.
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Great.. Brilliant.. Thanks for that... I've bought a backdoor after hours possibly didn't quite make the grade jobbyR0B wrote:Maybe yours is like those designer items made at the weekend in chinese factory's and sold on the black market.All the right stuff,but not officially made.
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Re: Finding the birthday/place of your van
You'd be better off giving the van to me
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Sounds like a plan .. I'll drop it round , if your not in ill pop the keys through ya door!lloydy wrote:You'd be better off giving the van to me
By the way it will probably leave you on the breadline within an mot or two
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Re: Finding the birthday/place of your van
It was probably just a product of an experimental shift pattern or similar.
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Not over keen on phrases like "experimental"..
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Re: Finding the birthday/place of your van
what about that the model year stamps were changed in august?
G is for the model year '86, manufactured from 85 august to 86 july
G is for the model year '86, manufactured from 85 august to 86 july
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Re: Finding the birthday/place of your van
But the "H" is 87 .. It's D reg so is that 86/7 ?ZsZ wrote:what about that the model year stamps were changed in august?
G is for the model year '86, manufactured from 85 august to 86 july
The week 43 means oct 19/25 so surly that means 87?
Not that any of it matters one dot really but it's just nice to know
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Re: Finding the birthday/place of your van
If you want to know for sure you could fork out £50 for a Heritage Letter from VW. I had to when I imported mine but as a consequence I know the exact date it was manufactured.
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KINGPRAWN wrote:But the "H" is 87 .. It's D reg so is that 86/7 ?ZsZ wrote:what about that the model year stamps were changed in august?
G is for the model year '86, manufactured from 85 august to 86 july
The week 43 means oct 19/25 so surly that means 87?
Not that any of it matters one dot really but it's just nice to know
I've checked the brickwerks post again. the sample M-plate shows that it was made in the 33rd week of the year, which is in the middle of august. The last row says that bus was the 9302nd of the model year. VW produced around 12000/month, so 9302nd is acceptable in the 3rd week of the model year.
It means the BW sample van was made in the 33th week of august 1986. If the 5th day of the week is correct, then it was mad exactly 15. august 1986.
On a friday afternoon, so some mistakes sure happened during the assembly
According to the german wikipedia article, in germany the week begins with sunday http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woche, so it maybe made on thursday.
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ZsZ wrote:KINGPRAWN wrote:But the "H" is 87 .. It's D reg so is that 86/7 ?ZsZ wrote:what about that the model year stamps were changed in august?
G is for the model year '86, manufactured from 85 august to 86 july
The week 43 means oct 19/25 so surly that means 87?
Not that any of it matters one dot really but it's just nice to know
I've checked the brickwerks post again. the sample M-plate shows that it was made in the 33rd week of the year, which is in the middle of august. The last row says that bus was the 9302nd of the model year. VW produced around 12000/month, so 9302nd is acceptable in the 3rd week of the model year.
It means the BW sample van was made in the 33th week of august 1986. If the 5th day of the week is correct, then it was mad exactly 15. august 1986.
On a friday afternoon, so some mistakes sure happened during the assembly
According to the german wikipedia article, in germany the week begins with sunday http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woche, so it maybe made on thursday.
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