i didnt know if the vins for the jdm rx7's were the same as the usdm ones..

im trying to figure out what year clip i got and im pretty sure its older than they advertised..

i read icemarks stickied thread about the vins and im hoping the numbers are different for the jdm rx7's than the usdm ones.

any insight?

 

call mazda directly and they might be able to tell you

 

somebody has to know...

ill keep searching...

 

in japan they didn't have the 18 digit vin, the ID number stays the old style.

it should be FC3S-xxxxxx, the first number is basically the year. for the FC they didn't start at 1, so i don't recall which year is which #. it IS the same as the us number, i wanna say 86 is 100001+ and then 87 is 500001+ but don't hold me to it

 

ok, well thats all i needed to know... if the 1000001+ and so on for specific years.

the car i have is an 86 and they advertised it as a 1991 so i guess ill be getting hold of some people...

thanks for the help

 

JDM VINS are wierd, mine is fc3s248456 paint code GU (numbers may be off i only remember the first 3 100%)

 

ya mines a 200000#. just wanted to know if thats how the years were decided like 2 was first year 3 2nd and so on..

 

the FC is weird, 100001 is 86, 500001 is 87, 600001 is 88....

2 might be 91 http://fc3spro.com/reg.html

 

good info..

maybe i didnt get ripped off...