View Single Post
Old 06-25-2012, 05:23 PM   #14
Keith Seymore
Registered User
 
Keith Seymore's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Motor City
Posts: 9,291
Re: Can someone clarify what I think I know about 88 Classic Body style.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ski-me View Post
As far as I can tell it's just called a "check digit". I don't really know the significance, if any. The VIN decoding just called it a check digit.
The "check digit" was just a random number generated digit in that spot of the VIN (0-9, or X). The random aspect keeps bad guys from being able to predict or re-create a complete VIN based on a given sequence number.

K
__________________
Chevrolet Flint Assembly
1979-1986
GM Full Size Truck Engineering
1986 - 2019
Intro from an Old Assembly Guy: http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=342926
My Pontiac story: http://forums.maxperformanceinc.com/...d.php?t=560524
Chevelle intro: http://www.superchevy.com/features/s...hevy-chevelle/

Last edited by Keith Seymore; 06-25-2012 at 05:37 PM.
Keith Seymore is offline   Reply With Quote