[DML] Re: Running VIN numbers

["Mark Noeltner" <mnoeltne@xxxx>]

Lee,

The check digit isn't there to check the number on the plate. As you
said, that number had BETTER be right!

It's there to allow a computer system to check the data entry person
who punches it into a system. For example the DMV when you take it in
to transfer the title and get license plates. If the person at the DMV
types it in wrong the check digit will catch that and force them to try
again.

Mark N
VIN 6820

lee <suppor-@xxxx> wrote: 
> 
> Excuse this question, maybe I missed something some where.....
> 
> If I read the vin number on the door post of my DeLorean and do some
sort
> of calculation
> the answer will confirm that the vin number stamped into the metal ID
plate
> is correct? I don't get it? whats the point in that? The vin number
is
> what it is, I can see
> a number being miss stamped at the plant, but once it is stamped into
the
> metal what ever
> it may be, thats what gets recorded on all the paper work...That
number is
> by it's very existence correct.
> 
> Lee
> 
> 
> 
> support@xxxx
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