Greetings,
I'm trying to discover the build-date for my mother's 2008 C6 coupe. I have the vin#.. is it possible to locate that information?

 

Any GM dealership can do it. A few forum members also can do it. It simply involves providing your VIN to a member with access to the GMVIS. It will provide the assembly date as well as a full list of options and any warranty history and start date.

 

Otherwise, you can get just the month and year of the build date from a sticker on the driver's side door frame.

 

Post the VIN.Somebody who can do it will and then email you.

 

Look at the passenger side front wheelhouse panel.(Above the tire tread.) It'll have some writing in white grease pencil. You should see the date and maybe a couple of signatures. Also you can check with Betty @ Bowling Green, she has ALL the info (including build sheet) for your mom's car.

 

Betty at the Museum sent me my build date, I sent her an email and a few days later she sent the date. Good luck

 

Isn't the build date also on the Certificate of Origin?

 

First, the date on the wheel well (if it is there) is not the build date and can be off by as much as two weeks. That is the QC signoff for that assembly.

Second, the Corvette museum while willing from time to time to help owners with this information has access to that information for people that are taking museum delivery and it isn't fair for everyone to ask them to do it.

 

 

contact Betty at NCM and she can take care of you. she can take your order for a build sheet while you are at it should you like same. be aware though that the build sheet for a 2008 does not show the birth date.

 

Send an email to: Gene@GMpartshouse.com and ask him for a GMVIS. Give him the VIN and he will send you back a printable report that will tell you a bunch of information about the car.

Kent

 

Paul - when I last talked to her at the museum, she volunteered and even did the same for my C5 buddy who was travelling with me. would think you should at least be a NCM member to do this but my advice was based on the email exchanges I have had with her over the last year. sorry if this is not a good suggestion and will send folks another way next time.

 

with all of the above. Many people seem to think that date in the fenderwell is the build date and as Paul has explained, it simply is not. One might get lucky and have that date end up being the same as their build date, but most likely, it will not match.

The nice people at the Museum are not part of the GM dealer network or the assembly plant. You really should not be bothering them with information any dealer can provide you.

 

I think anyone at the Museum would be more than helpful if asked. Just don't want to flood them with phone calls asking for build dates. That will for sure happen here on the forum if everyone thinks they can call her or anyone else there.

I myself do not think you did anything wrong, but others will for sure take advantage of the situation.

 

No reason at all to apologize. Betty is a wonderful person, as is everyone that works at the museum. It is just that they do all have actual jobs to do as well. I don't know that I've really ever seen them say no to anyone about anything within their power. The problem is that folks on the forum bring a lot of weight to bear on them with demands. One person has a positive experience and posts about it the next thing that happens is hundereds of people are calling them looking for the same treatment. "It's the old, no good deed goes unpunished"... Heck, I would venture that half of the people that call and ask for favors are not even members of the musuem.

The same thing happens with the assembly plant when they try to do a good deed for an owner. The next thing you know someone's email address is posted or the plant is flooded with phonecalls.

As a member of the museum I don't think the information you offered was a bad thing at all. I'm just a little more sensitive about the museum as an Ambassador. They are a not for profit organization and rely on the charitible contributions of others for their survival. I just wish that more folks that had expectations of the museum actually contributed something to them be it their time or their donations.

 

Great information, thanks all!

 

Yes, feel free to send me your VIN# and I'll be happy to do a VIS.