The Waiting Game...Who's playing?

What build week is your placeholder VIN?

 

When do we get our real VIN #'s? I assume when the truck arrives at the dealership?

 

When the truck has a build date.

 

so that VIN number is a real number that I was given its not a "placeholder" VIN or fake VIN number? Cuz I am slated to pickup my truck by Halloween.

 

My taco is in Houston en route to Austin. Will post some pics once I take ownership.. haters gonna hate.

 

It's a real vin number. Once the car is slated to be built, it's assigned accordingly for DMV purposes and such.

 

My deal was made 9/19 for an mgm 4x4 dclb sport with tech/no jbl and towing. No build date yet....nothing...so there are some out here that are waiting quite a bit longer than others.....

 

you guys are funny with your VIN mis-information

 

Thanks for clarifying. When I was in sales and people special ordered cars the VIN wouldn't populate until it had a build date. At least for VWs

 

Mine should be here withing the next couple weeks

 

a valid vin contain numbers in the last 6 positions of the VIN. if an alpha character exist in the last 6 positions, its a placeholder VIN sequence number. an actual VIN will not be assigned until the vehicle is actually produced.

kinda hard to have a VIN on a vehicle that doesn't exist.

 

Good to know then I have a real VIN and my vehicle is exactly on par with what the dealership has been communicating with me. Thanks for the lesson on VIN's.

 

Well the vehicle has to have a vin to populate exactly what that vehicle will have installed in the build process. Therefore it has a real vin prior to being built.

 

Ok someone help me with this process. I placed an order approximately 3 weeks ago, I was told they were able to get an allocation build date 11/3. So now my salesman days they don't have a vin yet? WTH?

 

My build date was 10-20. Anyone know about how long after till it gets delivered? I am in the KC area.

 

yep keep thinking that, until you have an actual date in the production date line, you will have a temp VIN. the VIN displayed when it only shows a estimate production date will be a placeholder VIN with an alpha character in the last 6 positions.

otherwise post a pic of your status or print out with a VIN.

 

I am just speaking of my experience in the auto industry for Nissan,and the build process specifically. I don't have any info for Toyota and I need to know what to ask from my dealer as I have one on order.

 

The wait is over! Heading over to the dealer about 6pm to pick it up.

 

for Toyota, they put a placeholder VIN when they have a estimated production date. when a vehicle has been produced, it gets a valid VIN.

examples : temp VIN and actual VIN.

1st pic show a temp VIN with a "B" in the 14th position. the number before the alpha shows the projected week of build.

2nd pic shows an actual VIN since it has an actual production date. also you can see the temp s/n isn't even close to the actual VIN.


also to add, the VIN up to position 11 is valid since it that is already a know since the plant and stats are based on what is being made, just the sequence number is never know until its actually built.

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