A Favour To Ask All The JDM FC3S Owners

[grinder]

Hiya chaps

im trying to decode my chassis number on the Cab - and it looks a really short number

soo....

if any of you own a JDM FC - can you look at the chassis number ( on the bulk head )

and either

1 - let me know the total lengh of it
2 - PM me your chassis number so i can check it against mine

if you are not keen to let me know the number - then thats fine and i can appreciate that

mine looks like this :

FC3C 999999

where the 6 9\'s are the number

as you can see - its dead short - i thought they were always about 17 chars in length

Ta

Stu

[m1tch]

could this help?
http://www.autocalculator.org/Free-VIN-lookup.aspx

[grinder]

it would - but i dont have a 17 digit chassis number

i wonder if the V5 shows a different number ?

[grinder]

nope V5 only shows a 10 digit one ( or summat like that )

[peterwolds]

stu will look at mine in the morning

[grinder]

cheers Peter

[L18M]

mine is fc3s xxxxxxx
sth like that. tried to find out more but no luck. benlewismay was fc3s xxxxx also

jus kno its jdm =p
sorry cant help more. but if u find out more then be nice to kno s i can find outwhat yr mine is n motel possibly.

[mukumu kurubushi]

na mine is the same. 6 numbers after the "FC3S-"

[grinder]

hummmm well ok then - thats a start - at least it proves that all the JDM ones are short

now to do some digging to find out what it means

mine is in the 201XXX range - so i assume that all yours are aswell ??

now i did some digging around and found out that the serial number ( the 6 digit number ) puts mine in this bracket

DEC / \'91 - Aug / \'93 200001 - 300000

and this is the full list for the serial numbers :

1979 Mar / \'78 - Jun / \'79 500001 - 568500  
1980 Jun / \'79 - Sept / \'80 568501 - 650000  
1981 Jul / \'80 - May / \'81 500001 - 600000  
1982 May / \'81 - Jun / \'82 600001 - 700000  
1983 Jul / \'82 - Oct / \'83 700001 - 800000  
1984 Sept / \'83 - Jul / \'84 800001 - 850000  
1985 Jul / \'84 - May / \'85 850001 - 899999  
1986 Aug / \'85 - Jun / \'86 100001 - 200000  
1987 Jun / \'86 - Jul / \'87 500001 - 600000  
1988 Jul / \'87 - Dec / \'88 600001 - 700000  
1989 DEC / \'88 - DEC / \'89 700001 - 800000  
1990 DEC / \'89 - Nov / \'90 800001 - 900000  
1991 Aug / \'90 - Jul / \'91 900001 - 950000  
1993 DEC / \'91 - Aug / \'93 200001 - 300000  
1994 Aug / \'93 - Jul / \'94 300001 - 310000  
1995 Jul / \'94 - Jan / \'96 400001 - 500000

bu then looking at the chassis number from the Black coupe i had - that was in the 200000 range but that was a 1990 car

hummmmm looks like this chassis number range means naff all

[grinder]

so the only thing from all this would say that the FC3S is the hard top and the FC3C is the convertable model

i cant believe that there is nothing else on these cars to say what year they were made or in what factory etc...

[mukumu kurubushi]

mine is in the 201XXX range - so i assume that all yours are aswell ??

nope :chat

according to http://www.fc3spro.com/reg.html there should be a door plate on the driver side? I haven\'t looked but i\'ll check today

[peterwolds]

plate in engine bay reads
jm2fc183200202054

[grinder]

is yours a UK car Peter ?

[L18M]

FC3S 241XXX
so according to the table, mine is dec 91 onwards also. so prob one of the last ones out the factory lol.

no wonder parts didnt add up.. last fc thy squeezed out the factory n made it out of all the left over parts lol

maybe whould start to compile a list if jdm vin no\'s n try find common things?

i dunt remember seeing a plate on driver door area. jus remember a worn off sticker me thinks.

[L18M]

looking at the table mukurusubishi (y the looong name?!?!? lol)
my fc seems to be within the 1991 range.
funny how that table not got cabs on there.