Type mines
English translation: VDS in VIN
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| 5 +2 | VDS in VIN |
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| 4 | Vehicle Registration Authority category |
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| type mines - refers to the type classification of the "Service des Mines" |
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Vehicle Registration Authority category Explanation: Considering that the "Service des Mines" is the Vehicle Registration Authority |
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34 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +2
peer agreement (net): +2VDS in VIN Explanation: This is the "véhicle descriptor section" part of the VIN: 4th through 8th character; http://www.vinguard.org/vin.htm This is worth for recent vehicles, used to be in the time of this phrase "type mines" that each manufacturer could do anything he liked, this was in fact the manufacturing code of the model, sometimes more or less related to the commercial name: for Citroen 2CV, model AZ, AZU remain known from aficionados, like HY for the van, the model Dyane was so called because its VDS was AYA, etc The best known location for the "type mines" is the "carte grise" of the vehicle, French equivalent of the V5 -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 40 minutes (2009-02-10 14:38:13 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Examples on british items: http://www.triumph-t3-passion.info/type-mines-triumph-t3.htm... example of a "carte grise" (type is 7ANFZ2) http://www.gieargos.org/PortailARGOS/Images/cartegrise-exemp... Reference: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_Identification_Number Reference: http://www.vehicleidentificationnumber.com/vehicle_identific... |
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| Reference: type mines - refers to the type classification of the "Service des Mines" Reference information: http://www.hypercasse.fr/definition-automobile.php Type MINE : Ce numéro, présent sur votre carte grise, nous permet d'avoir l'ensemble des informations techniques de votre véhicule "l'ancien Service Des Mines, maintenant la DRIRE, peut délivrer un certificat de conformité nécessaire à la demande d'immatriculation dans certains cas" |
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