Rover 200 & 400 Owners Club - Deciphering the VIN number - Page 2

Smithy · Post by **Smithy** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 8:58 pm

I am guessing one is an A and the other a B.

tompinney · Post by **tompinney** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 2:00 pm

Clive216 wrote:According to the official MGR parts catalogue, mine doesn't exist...

My parts catalogue doesn't have my car listed either, but you can still work out all these details from the info I posted in the posts above.

214GSI wrote:Why does my 1995 214SI, have a lower number than my 1990 214 GSI?
The 1995 is 123***
The 1990 is 248***

Confused? :?

As skatiechik said, they have different model change designations. The GSI is effectively an 'A-spec' car and the SI is effectively a 'B-spec' car. When the model change letter went from A->B they also restarted the numbering, hence why the later car could have a lower number.

The R8 Man · Post by **The R8 Man** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 4:10 pm

Mine's a 1993 GSi, with an SLi prefix!
Plus prefix letter 8 is an F, but that does not appear on the list....

214GSI · Post by **214GSI** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 8:08 pm

The R8 Man wrote:Mine's a 1993 GSi, with an SLi prefix!
Plus prefix letter 8 is an F, but that does not appear on the list....

I agree, the eighth letter on my GSI Vin is an E and this doesn't feature, it appears the single-point inj engines are missing from the list.
Furthermore my letter 6 is a Y and GSI is not listed against this number?