08-31-2014, 01:11 PM
Yep. Input that [url=http://alton-moore.net/vin_calculation.html]here and it will confirm it. Replace the '3' in the 9th position with an 'x' and it will tell you that the correct checksum was '3'. I suspect, God forgive me, that you may have made a mistake when you put it in.
I don't think you need worry too much about publishing the entire VIN. Dealers seem to do it and, with US VINs at least, nearly all the information necessary to work them out is available in the public domain as you can see.
I suspect there's a bit of VIN fraud, but the fact that they're unique and connected in a number of ways with individual vehicles, makes it pretty hard to muck about with them. If someone tried to register another bike with your VIN, I suspect the registration system would immediately throw up an alert. I don't know vehicle registration works in the US; in Australia it's a responsibility of the States and it took them a long time to establish an automated system to check VINs so as to reduce the ease of stealing cars, reinventing them and selling them.
I don't think you need worry too much about publishing the entire VIN. Dealers seem to do it and, with US VINs at least, nearly all the information necessary to work them out is available in the public domain as you can see.
I suspect there's a bit of VIN fraud, but the fact that they're unique and connected in a number of ways with individual vehicles, makes it pretty hard to muck about with them. If someone tried to register another bike with your VIN, I suspect the registration system would immediately throw up an alert. I don't know vehicle registration works in the US; in Australia it's a responsibility of the States and it took them a long time to establish an automated system to check VINs so as to reduce the ease of stealing cars, reinventing them and selling them.