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Originally Posted by bruceman1968
Keith, Are you saying that the 902 number is the last 3 digits of his VIN number?
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Nope. There is no direct linkage between the build sequence number and the sequential portion of the VIN.
The build sequence number absolutely increases one-for-one for every truck built. So at the beginning of the year you start with truck "01" and start counting, all the way to 700,000 or every how many trucks were built in that plant.
The VIN sequence portion does not increment one for one....nor are trucks necessarily built in VIN order. In my day Chevy's started with 100001 and GMCs with 500001 (and then Cadillacs with 600001); so, while within a nameplate the VINs increment up one by one but because the various nameplates are jumbled in during the day's production run the VINs do not increment up exactly one for one overall.
Let's say your daily build looked like this (I'm making this up for illustration purposes):
PVI = "Primary Vehicle Identifier" - and is the way the cab/box are identified in body shop, before the GA (General Assembly/Final Line) sequence number and VIN are even created. There are two opportunities for the build order to be shuffled: coming out of body shop into paint, and coming out of paint into trim/GA.
GA sequence number is the order in which the trucks go down the final line. Once they hit trim/final the build order is locked in.
In the example shown here the operator would write the "901", "902" etc (or even just "01", "02") on the front of dash, rather than the full "299901".
Does that help?
K