what does it mean when your VIN doesn't exist?

[bazookaman]

Perhaps it doesn't show up on carfax b/c its a gray market car imported to the UAE from Germany.

[Janit]

My impression in that car donations tend to go through clearing-house centers, so it's possible that the bureaucracy will still choke on the lack of a carfax verification even with the valid old.mbclub.ru database entry.

You may have better luck with a local junkyard dealer who has actual hands-on experience with real cars -- he might even pay you something for the car.

[mrbigstuff]

877 reading lamp in the rear (ñ 01.11.1963)

gotta have the reading lamp in the rear, or as my kids call it, "the boy light."

[Mike Johnson]

551 anti-theft warning system (ñ 01.11.1978 ïî 31.03.1998)
588 automatic climate control and electric window lifters (front and rear doors) (ñ 01.01.1977)
592 heat-insulating glass, all-around, heated rear window pane (laminated glass), band filter
green heat-insulating glass all round, heated rear window, laminated safety glass - tinted strip (ñ 01.01.1972)
600 headlamp wiper/washer (ñ 01.08.1971)
611 courtesy lamps for front and rear doors, with W124 also for central doors/W202 front doors only (ñ 01.11.1978)
639 elimination of first-aid box and warning triangle (ñ 01.08.1977)
640 aluminium disc wheels with radial-ply tires (ñ 01.10.1969 ïî 31.12.1989)
806 Change of year of model, last figure shows new model year
873 seat heater for left and right front seats (ñ 01.02.1984)
877 reading lamp in the rear (ñ 01.11.1963)
899 stain from popcorn grease on rear seat (ñ 01.08.1984)
912 poltergeist, mischievous, export version (ñ 01.02.1996)
924 trunk smells like dog farts (ñ 01.08.1976)

maybe the problem is they actually read the whole report?

[RAMd®d]

Put the car on a plane back to Russia with a note indicating that the adoption didn't work out.

POMTL, that is soooooo wrong!

[Seacrest]

Like the young Vito Andolini in GFII, the name VIN was changed when the car stepped off the boat at Ellis Island Port of Long Beach and they couldn't pronounce it.

[Janit]

RAMd®d wrote:
Put the car on a plane back to Russia with a note indicating that the adoption didn't work out.

POMTL, that is soooooo wrong!

You're welcone. In VINo veritas!

[bazookaman]

problem solved. they are coming to get the car tomorrow. apparently as long as the number on the car matches the dmv record, they'll take it. I will be so glad to be rid of this junker.

[lafinfil]

Why didn't you post this on "Free Stuff Monday" ?

[bazookaman]

lafinfil wrote:
Why didn't you post this on "Free Stuff Monday" ?

believe me. you wouldn't want it. not even for free.