Vin Plate Location
#16
Posted 29 December 2007 - 11:31 PM
JR
#17
Posted 29 December 2007 - 11:32 PM
This maybe cause its a japanese import though, and with the extra air con under the bonnet, theres no room for the vin to be seen under there.
#18
Posted 31 December 2007 - 12:07 PM
thanks
J
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Edited by herpsuk, 31 December 2007 - 12:11 PM.
#19
Posted 31 December 2007 - 01:42 PM
Paint & trim codes are at the top of the plate as well on these types.
JR
Edit: The VIN number should also be stamped in the scuttle panel rain channel at the back of the engine bay on this sort of age Mini.
Edited by jayare, 31 December 2007 - 01:43 PM.
#20
Posted 31 December 2007 - 03:40 PM
#21
Posted 04 January 2008 - 03:49 PM
much appreciated
J
#22
Posted 04 January 2008 - 03:54 PM
#23
Posted 04 January 2008 - 03:57 PM
If you want the one stamped into the body then it should be above the master cylinders in the rain channel just below the windscreen. It's not easy to find , best feel for itFor the mnumber on the scuttle where exactly is it located? drivers/passenger side? or in the middle and how far down from the scuttle/up form the bottom of the car
much appreciated
J
#24
Posted 04 January 2008 - 04:44 PM
wil ahve to do so in morning, its to dark n cold now
thanks guys
#25
Posted 04 January 2008 - 04:59 PM
very hard to explain lol
#26
Posted 08 December 2011 - 08:49 PM
#27
Posted 12 April 2012 - 06:55 PM
I am looking to buy a Mini pickup which the owner says and it is registered in Costa Rica as a 1975 (not much of a difference here, it could be any year).
I went to look for any identifying numbers and found the following series:
U/014xxxL Under the front lip of the bonnet, where it latches the body.
FE1979xx5 On the right side of the chassis next to the motor, right under the bonnet.
85HxxxPxxx19 on the engine (Someone on a different thread already shed some light to it being an 850cc and not a 1100cc as the Costarican registry shows)
I am suspicious of all three series since my search on the internet has turned nothing similar for any pickups '75 or otherwise. i suspect the engine is not an original pickup but belonged to some other Mini and was put in the pickup. As for the other numbers, I know U is for pickup, but as I understand it there should be several more letters on that series. and as for the FE, so far no search has come back with anything similar.
Does anyone at all have any idea if this is a legitimate '75 pickup, maybe not built in the UK or what these numbers mean or where they are from??
#28
Posted 12 April 2012 - 11:04 PM
The FE number is a number originally used in the factory and doesn't seem to mean much in the outside world, FE = Front End I think.
The FE number was usually reversed stamped into a welded plate.
VIN Numbers:
http://www.minimania...atagory=General
Edited by mab01uk, 12 April 2012 - 11:05 PM.
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