Prius VIN's and Year of Manufacture

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting' started by baumgrenze, May 15, 2007.

  1. baumgrenze

    baumgrenze Junior Member

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    Color me confused. Through the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation website, I finally found the list of VIN's associated with the 60C "recall," the one dealing with the steering column.

    I took delivery of my 2004 Prius on 5/20/04. It carries the VIN JTD KB20U 840072605.

    The NHTSA ODI document:

    http://199.79.180.163/prepos/files/Artemis...06V188-8082.pdf

    tells me the following about the vehicles with VIN's similar to mine:

    VDS KB20U

    VIS groups

    0001086 – 0133248
    3000000 – 3129959
    7003414 – 7059090

    Production Period 8/5/03 – 11/10/05

    I do not find my VIN in that group. Clearly a car delivered on 5/20/04 falls dead center in the production period above.

    Did Toyota manufacture the Prius in several plants in Japan during the production period in question
    (8/5/03 – 11/10/05)?

    Were the questionable steering columns only installed in one of those plants?

    Thanks,

    baumgrenze
     
    #1 baumgrenze, May 15, 2007
  2. dmckinstry

    dmckinstry New Member

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(baumgrenze @ May 15 2007, 03:01 PM) [snapback]442772[/snapback]</div>
    All I know is that I received a letter from the Dealer (or perhaps Toyota directly) on the steering shaft assembly recall. This was on a Prius delivered in August of '05. If your car needed it, you should have gotten a letter.

    The document you link does say "on certain 2004 through early 2006". The implication is that it's only one some.

    Dave M.
     
    #2 dmckinstry, May 15, 2007
  3. JimN

    JimN Let the games begin!

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    For the recall I would be surprised to learn that every part in question was defective. The subcontractor may have had several lines in operation or received smaller parts or materials from several suppliers that caused only some of the larger assemblies to be suspect or defective. Most likely they would have been traced back to various batches that were used in different blocks of time. So it is possible that the car before yours got the last suspect part in the bin while yours got the first "good" part out of the next bin. Easier to ask the dealer to check. They know what they are looking for and may have more detailed lists.
     
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  4. ken1784

    ken1784 SuperMID designer

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(baumgrenze @ May 16 2007, 07:01 AM) [snapback]442772[/snapback]</div>
    I believe yours (0072605) is in the "0001086 – 0133248" group.

    Ken@Japan
     
    #4 ken1784, May 15, 2007
  5. baumgrenze

    baumgrenze Junior Member

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    Thank you Ken!

    Yours is the reply I needed. Of course, I failed to notice that the numbers in the Acrobat file I downloaded were 7 digit numbers and that the "84" in 840072605 is 'silent.'

    Now everything makes sense except the failure of any recall notice to arrive at my house.

    Careful rereading of past service docs shows that the steering shaft change was accomplished on 6/20/06, right on schedule, when the car was in for routine maintenance at 20,000 miles.

    All's well that ends well.

    baumgrenze

    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ken1784 @ May 15 2007, 06:37 PM) [snapback]442919[/snapback]</div>
     
    #5 baumgrenze, May 16, 2007
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