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Found a post by somebody(sorry cant remember who) about how to work out the birth history of your van... As usual it's never so straightforward !!.. So here's mine
43 7 6090 UY 2538 C7

X2X2BB 573

HG 034 246

Some I can workout , but the day seems to be the 7 ( Sunday) the explanation says no production on weekends ?
Also says westfalias don't have this plate .. But mine does!
Does this mean something is a bit dubious??

Baxter's blog here: http://www.brickwerks.co.uk/index.php/blog

not sure it spells it all out but at least something to go on.

Thanks but that's what I was using, production dates 1-5 mon-fri... I have a 7 .. (Sunday)??

Maybe yours is like those designer items made at the weekend in chinese factory's and sold on the black market.All the right stuff,but not officially made.

R0B wrote:Maybe yours is like those designer items made at the weekend in chinese factory's and sold on the black market.All the right stuff,but not officially made.

Great.. Brilliant.. Thanks for that... I've bought a backdoor after hours possibly didn't quite make the grade jobby

You'd be better off giving the van to me

lloydy wrote:You'd be better off giving the van to me

Sounds like a plan .. I'll drop it round , if your not in ill pop the keys through ya door!
By the way it will probably leave you on the breadline within an mot or two

It was probably just a product of an experimental shift pattern or similar.

Not over keen on phrases like "experimental"..

what about that the model year stamps were changed in august?
G is for the model year '86, manufactured from 85 august to 86 july

ZsZ wrote:what about that the model year stamps were changed in august?
G is for the model year '86, manufactured from 85 august to 86 july

But the "H" is 87 .. It's D reg so is that 86/7 ?
The week 43 means oct 19/25 so surly that means 87?
Not that any of it matters one dot really but it's just nice to know

If you want to know for sure you could fork out £50 for a Heritage Letter from VW. I had to when I imported mine but as a consequence I know the exact date it was manufactured.

KINGPRAWN wrote:

ZsZ wrote:what about that the model year stamps were changed in august?
G is for the model year '86, manufactured from 85 august to 86 july

But the "H" is 87 .. It's D reg so is that 86/7 ?
The week 43 means oct 19/25 so surly that means 87?
Not that any of it matters one dot really but it's just nice to know

I've checked the brickwerks post again. the sample M-plate shows that it was made in the 33rd week of the year, which is in the middle of august. The last row says that bus was the 9302nd of the model year. VW produced around 12000/month, so 9302nd is acceptable in the 3rd week of the model year.
It means the BW sample van was made in the 33th week of august 1986. If the 5th day of the week is correct, then it was mad exactly 15. august 1986.

On a friday afternoon, so some mistakes sure happened during the assembly

According to the german wikipedia article, in germany the week begins with sunday http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woche, so it maybe made on thursday.

ZsZ wrote:

KINGPRAWN wrote:

ZsZ wrote:what about that the model year stamps were changed in august?
G is for the model year '86, manufactured from 85 august to 86 july

But the "H" is 87 .. It's D reg so is that 86/7 ?
The week 43 means oct 19/25 so surly that means 87?
Not that any of it matters one dot really but it's just nice to know

I've checked the brickwerks post again. the sample M-plate shows that it was made in the 33rd week of the year, which is in the middle of august. The last row says that bus was the 9302nd of the model year. VW produced around 12000/month, so 9302nd is acceptable in the 3rd week of the model year.
It means the BW sample van was made in the 33th week of august 1986. If the 5th day of the week is correct, then it was mad exactly 15. august 1986.

On a friday afternoon, so some mistakes sure happened during the assembly

According to the german wikipedia article, in germany the week begins with sunday http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woche, so it maybe made on thursday.

Thanks for waisting your time on me....top man