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Odd VIN.


After, "officially", buying my Squareback last week, I took all of the
registration paperwork into the road inspection office to get everything
transfered over to my name.  After looking a little closer, I noticed that
my Square's VIN starts with 367 ...  So we checked some old VW
identification records that my shop bought when a VW dealership went under.


Strangely enough, we discovered that the "3" is for T3 (not so wierd), the
"6" for having a sunroof (very wierd) and the "7" denoting that the
steering wheel is on the left hand side of the car - which it was when I
left for school this morning.

It got wierd with the 6.  I have factory pop-out side windows, but no
sunroof.  I wish that I did: perhaps I should drop by the local VAG and
demand the mising sunroof be installed retroactively ...  Anyway, we
checked with another Squareback owner (same year model) and his car had the
same 367 VIN, a sunroof but no pop-out windows!  I will have to re-check
the M codes, but maybe these were inter-changable or considered the same.

I have heard that many owners opted not for pop-outs when they bought T3's
new, but for the full sunroof option instead for, "extra cooling".  How
funny.

I suppose I will know the whole truth once the paperwork comes back from
VAG in Wolfsburg.

Patrick




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