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Hello, it is hard to explain my problem in english, but I will try cause am completely lost!!!
I have a 1988 C4 Vette and here, in Spain, we must pass some kind of technical inspection every year for security reasons. One of the steps in this overall check is that the frame code in the low part of the windshield matches with some kind of other frame (track) that must be somewere in the chassis of the car, when you open the hood.
In my Corvette there is a frame code under the hood, carved in a little metalic plate, but the technicians say that there must be some other kind of a track in the chassis and they can not find it.
I am affraid that I will not be able to use my car again!!! So my question is simple: where the hell is this track number in the chassis? Is it the metallic plate under the hood and there is not other one?
Please, help me, because here in spain I can not drive without that inspection passed!!!
Thank you very much for your cooperation.
I have a 1988 C4 Vette and here, in Spain, we must pass some kind of technical inspection every year for security reasons. One of the steps in this overall check is that the frame code in the low part of the windshield matches with some kind of other frame (track) that must be somewere in the chassis of the car, when you open the hood.
In my Corvette there is a frame code under the hood, carved in a little metalic plate, but the technicians say that there must be some other kind of a track in the chassis and they can not find it.
I am affraid that I will not be able to use my car again!!! So my question is simple: where the hell is this track number in the chassis? Is it the metallic plate under the hood and there is not other one?
Please, help me, because here in spain I can not drive without that inspection passed!!!
Thank you very much for your cooperation.
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Originally Posted by Pete K
If you remove the plastic panels behind the drivers side front wheel, you will see it stamped in the frame rail.
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If you look behind the drivers front wheel(with hood up) you will see some plastic panels that hide the chassis.The frame rail is the main piece of metal that runs the length of the car. The piece I am referring to Has the top of the shock absorber attached to it.
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Originally Posted by mitcher
Hello my friend. So this chassis number is near the front drivers side wheel (front left)... but I do not understand very well what plastic panels are you talking about and what is the frame rail... sorry, but I am from Spain, can you be a little more concrete?
Thank you very much!
Thank you very much!
Saludes
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Originally Posted by ittlfly
El secunda numero que usted esta buscando, esta en encima de cuerpo. Mi espanol esta malo pero que debe dejar usted cerrcano.
Saludes
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Thanks!
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Originally Posted by CFI-EFI
Check out this thread and/or contact your fellow CF member and countryman, Nico. He knows all about this, the bureaucratic system and the language. Good luck, and...
RACE ON!!!
RACE ON!!!
Thanks! I have just emailed Nico, I hope he will answer me! By the way, do you know where exactly this chassis number is? I do not remember any plastic cover near the left front wheel...
Again, thanks!
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Yep your are right....its been many years since I used what spanish I knew..thought I'd try it 
no bueno. Remove the 2 panales negros behind (detras de) the left tire. The number debe de estar on the frame. Good luck...
no bueno. Remove the 2 panales negros behind (detras de) the left tire. The number debe de estar on the frame. Good luck...
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Originally Posted by Pete K
If you look behind the drivers front wheel(with hood up) you will see some plastic panels that hide the chassis.The frame rail is the main piece of metal that runs the length of the car. The piece I am referring to Has the top of the shock absorber attached to it.
It is correct? Thanks!
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Originally Posted by ittlfly
Yep your are right....its been maney years since I used what spanish I knew..thought I'd try it no bueno. Remove the 2 panales negros behind (detras de) the left tire. The number debe de estar on the frame. Good luck...
no bueno. Remove the 2 panales negros behind (detras de) the left tire. The number debe de estar on the frame. Good luck...
I will try it and let you know if any problem.Thanks!
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I did respond to your Email, so perhaps that helps. But my spanish is also bad, I have to learn it in the bar in an Andaluz environment. Even Spanish people don´t understand much of it.
I am afraid the hidden VIN number does not help here in Spain. It is not complete, only the last 9 digits are there and the check digit is different!! So it confuses the people here even more.
Standard procedure is that the VIN number has to be stamped into the chassis left front on top of the frame, next to the radiator. Is normally done at import in Europe. The stamping here in Spain is done by the ITV, the test institute in Spain. I had an old military landrover and they could not read it well. So stamped it in again.
Good luck
Nico
I am afraid the hidden VIN number does not help here in Spain. It is not complete, only the last 9 digits are there and the check digit is different!! So it confuses the people here even more.
Standard procedure is that the VIN number has to be stamped into the chassis left front on top of the frame, next to the radiator. Is normally done at import in Europe. The stamping here in Spain is done by the ITV, the test institute in Spain. I had an old military landrover and they could not read it well. So stamped it in again.
Good luck
Nico
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Originally Posted by mitcher
By the way, do you know where exactly this chassis number is? I do not remember any plastic cover near the left front wheel...
Again, thanks!
Again, thanks!
RACE ON!!!
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Originally Posted by GeosFun
Jeez, and I though emissions testing was the biggest pain in the durrier 
Good luck! Hey Ittlfly, you fooled me! 
Good luck! Hey Ittlfly, you fooled me! 86VX1...gracias but obviously not cool enough.
