Mitsubishi Galant

17-item identification number of the car (VIN) is beaten out on beaten out on a metal plate (шильде), fixed on the panel of devices under a windscreen from the driver's party of the car. In VIN such data, as country and manufacturer codes, type of a vehicle, the engine and body characteristic, and also some specific parametres of the car are ciphered.

One more information шильда приклепана to a back partition in an impellent compartment. On шильду besides VIN codes of types of the engine and transmission, and also a colour code кузовного a paint and varnish covering are put. It is necessary to notice, that the information containing in placed on шильде identification number of the engine differs is supplemented with value of the letter taking of 8th position in structure VIN. So on a 4-item code 4G63 with шильды it is possible to define, that the car is equipped by engine SOHC/DOHC in volume of 2.0 l, however the information on a complete set of the unit turbo-supercharging system here is absent, whereas presence on 8th positions in code VIN of letter U unequivocally specifies in presence of the device of a turbo-supercharging.

The code of type of the engine presented separately can accept following values:

4G15 - engine SOHC in volume of 1.5 l
4G61 - engine DOHC in volume of 1.6 l
4G93 - engine SOHC in volume of 1.8 l
4G63 - engine SOHC or DOHC in volume 2.0 l
4G64 - engine SOHC or DOHC in volume 2.4 l
6G72 - engine SOHC or DOHC in volume 3.0 l
6G74 - engine DOHC in volume of 3.5 l

Besides the listed two information plates the third is provided still, being a certified label and fixed on a face surface of a rack of the left forward door of the car. The structure of codes of a certified label includes the information on a vehicle date of issue (year of release can be defined on a letter taking of 10th position in structure VIN), and also VIN and data about limiting safe loads on forward and back axes of the car (GRVW).

VIN also it is brought in ПТС and the registration certificate of a vehicle. In number the information on date and a place of manufacture of the car, year of release of model and body type is ciphered.

4-item identification number of the engine is beaten out on the forward party of the unit, in the top corner of the block of cylinders and corresponds put on information шильде to a code of type of the engine (see above). Serial number of the unit Nearby is beaten out.

As already it was mentioned above, the additional information on engine characteristics can be received by definition of value taking of 8th position in letter structure VIN.