01-23-2018, 03:41 PM
(01-23-2018, 01:28 PM)Cormanus_imp Wrote: Great plan, Guth! You'e a genius! I've always said that.
Now, to the question of VINs. There are some notes about the CB1100s VIN in [url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=10637]this thread. There is also a long discussion about VINs in [url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=3872]this thread when two members insisted that they had identical VINs—an impossibility unless one of the bike had been stolen and carried a falsified VIN. As it turned out, they didn't. One was a standard bike; the other was an ABS model. That shows clearly that Honda uses the same end digits for different models of the same year's bike and distinguishes between them elsewhere in the VIN. In the case of the CB1100 its in the 8th digit. So, SC651 was the non ABS bike and SC655 for the ABS model. Look at the forum VIN register to see some duplicate numbers.
Anyone really interested should at least scan [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_identification_number]this Wikipedia article which will give you an understanding of how formulaic this is. VINs are for the convenience of regulators not manufacturers and play an important role in law enforcement for detecting stolen and re-birthed vehicles.
I can't prove that the final digits of VINs are sequential, but on the basis of information collected on this forum alone, it is hard to believe they are not. Take the VIN referred to bu Ulvetanna and Peter Baron. It was for a 2014 CB1100 standard. In full the VIN would be JH2SC6510DK102291. That tells me it is is a 2014 standard likely to be number 2291 to come off the production line and that Honda is using the digit '1' in position 12 for some purpose of its own.
Yep. I believe when we were discussing '14 model vins several years ago, we found that all of them had a "1" in the 12th position. I'm sure Honda has a reason, but I don't know what it could be.
When I was contracting with Honda for some manufacturing automation software work, the serial numbers on the production lines were sequential to the model/market group being assembled.