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, Thu, 19 Dec 2013 21:53:26
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Good luck with that.
It took me hours upon hours over the course of a month to collect all the VINs for the 1993 Commemorative Edition cars and put them in order. There is an algorhythm as to how the numbers are calculated. It's been a few years, and I can't recall what it is. But you have to punch in every VIN into carfax or autocheck (there are thousands) and see if 900/SE shows up in the description. You also have to check if there are records on the car (don't need to pull a report, just see if there are multiple records) to insure that the car actually exists--there are false positives, based on the algorhythm. They won't have records.
Your search (if you decide to do it) will be more complicated, because the SEs came with both manual and automatic gearboxes. That means you will have to add an extra step to the search to alter the 7th digit in the VIN to either 5 (manual) or 6 (auto) for every build number search you do.
You will have 11 different options to punch in on the 9th digit (known as the "check digit"). That digit can be 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or X. That means you will have to do 11 searches on each VIN ending between 000001-0xxxxxx (however many verts were built that year) plus an additional search on each check number for the manual or automatic variable. NOTE: you will only have to go through the check numbers and manual/automatic numbers on a single build number search until you get a positive, so technically, it won't be 22 searches on each build number.
An example:
YS3AL75L0M7000001 (build number 1, manual, check digit 0)
YS3AL76L0M7000001 (build number 1, automatic, check digit 0)
YS3AL75L1M7000001 (build number 1, manual, check digit 1)
YS3AL76L1M7000001 (build number 1, automatic, check digit 1)
YS3AL75L2M7000001 (build number 1, manual, check digit 2)
YS3AL76L2M7000001 (build number 1, automatic, check digit 2)
and so on...
Here is the VIN reading info:
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Saabnet.com 1987-93 & 94 Saab 900 Convertible VIN Decoder - Chassis Numbers
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