Re: [T3] VIN vs. Model number

[Scott Taylor <scottbtaylor@earthlink.net>]

<x-flowed>On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 07:05  AM, Jim Adney wrote:

> The problem for
> me is that I'm sure I hear people talking about suffixes which I don't 
> see on
> the official VW documents.  The official suffixes that I see are S, N, 
> A, L,
> TL, and T. As far as I can see, VW used these suffixes in the model 
> table
> without defining them, and then never used them anywhere else in the 
> parts
> lists. Parts for particular models are called out by M codes, but 
> there is
> nowhere that I see that correlates particular (groups of) M codes with
> particular suffixes.
>
> All of this is made particularly difficult by the fact that few of the 
> cars
> I've ever seen in the US ever had a badge of any kind identifying them 
> as being
> a particular suffix. The only badge identifier I've ever seen is the 
> S, on cars
> before 68.

I think you're right, the model designations are confusing and were 
different in various markets. Sometimes the way cars were badged agreed 
with VW's internal model designations, sometimes not. I don't think the 
US market ever used the L, TL, or T (someone correct me if I'm wrong!). 
To my knowledge the N and A cars were never badged, but some of the 
sales brochures referred to them as N and A. VW of Canada had it's own 
unique system as explained by Andre recently, which included the TS 
badge that's currently in use by Everett Barnes as the logo for The 
Samba. Australia also had a TS but with different badging.

Scott
62 343, 65 361

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