Unknown VIN, help me to find out month of production!
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Sorry, it's not one built here in the States. I can't get any info for it.
I believe it would have been built in Hofu, Japan.
If you can find out how many were built that year, you could estimate it. the last 6 digits of the VIN# is where that particular vehicle lies within the production build (i.e. that was the 110,364th 626 built that production year.)
If the production year starts in September 1997 and they built ~200,000 (I'm guessing here), then it would have been built ~6.5 months into the production year. (approximating ~16,667/month) - that would make it an April to May 1998 build (roughly)
I believe it would have been built in Hofu, Japan.
If you can find out how many were built that year, you could estimate it. the last 6 digits of the VIN# is where that particular vehicle lies within the production build (i.e. that was the 110,364th 626 built that production year.)
If the production year starts in September 1997 and they built ~200,000 (I'm guessing here), then it would have been built ~6.5 months into the production year. (approximating ~16,667/month) - that would make it an April to May 1998 build (roughly)
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Sorry, it's not one built here in the States. I can't get any info for it.
I believe it would have been built in Hofu, Japan.
If you can find out how many were built that year, you could estimate it. the last 6 digits of the VIN# is where that particular vehicle lies within the production build (i.e. that was the 110,364th 626 built that production year.)
If the production year starts in September 1997 and they built ~200,000 (I'm guessing here), then it would have been built ~6.5 months into the production year. (approximating ~16,667/month) - that would make it an April to May 1998 build (roughly)
I believe it would have been built in Hofu, Japan.
If you can find out how many were built that year, you could estimate it. the last 6 digits of the VIN# is where that particular vehicle lies within the production build (i.e. that was the 110,364th 626 built that production year.)
If the production year starts in September 1997 and they built ~200,000 (I'm guessing here), then it would have been built ~6.5 months into the production year. (approximating ~16,667/month) - that would make it an April to May 1998 build (roughly)
1 NIPPONDENSO (JAPAN)
1 MITSUBISHI - 980401GF1*** -182783
... - 01/04/1998
1 MITSUBISHI 980401 -GF1***182783-
01/04/1998 - ...
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