I believe chassis numbers can give loads of info. What does this one tell you and how? WVW ZZZ 1 GZMW 437927
tells me it was stolen, there's finance on it, it's been a write off and the chassis is banana shaped, made up of 2 halfs stuck together with filler
Most of it relates to European cars as well. The only exception is that Euro cars don;t have the engine/accessory codes just Zs.
From memory, i believe the number works like this... Chassis numbering system explained Very straight forward system. The 'average' chassis number looks like: WAUZZZ8DZTA123456 Breaking that down, you can lose the 'WAUZZZ' that part of the chassis number is never really used. That now leaves: 8DZTA123456. Drop the 'Z', that isn't used either, so we're now left with the 'real' chassis number: 8DTA123456. 8D is the vehicle, in this case an A4 T is the year, in this case 1996. (A was 1980, B 1981, C 1982 and so on to the year 2001, when the letter was changed to numbers to denote the model year, 1 = 2001, 2 = 2002). A is the factory where the car was built. A is Ingolstadt in Germany. 123456 is the actual chassis number and can be traced back to the very day the car was built.
