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That's technically true, but as a practical matter, you can tell with a high degree of confidence whether a car left the factory with a transmission in the snap ring range.Cars with snap ring range transmissions started showing up in the U.S. VIN sequence in the '91 model year, around VIN MT002600. For cars that are somewhere around that number, they might or might not have a snap ring transmission. For cars whose VIN is significantly higher than that, they almost certainly left the factory with a transmission in the snap ring range, all the way up to the end of the model year, which was around MT003220. Of course, it's possible that the transmission was replaced after the car left the factory, so if you don't have a complete service history, you would need to check the transmission number to verify whether it still has its original (snap ring range) transmission.The same thing is true for cars in the early part of the '92 model year, but I don't know what the VIN value was at the time that they stopped installing snap ring range transmissions. I know of at least one case in which a VIN over NT001000 had a snap ring transmission. '92 VINs went up to about NT001280.
That's technically true, but as a practical matter, you can tell with a high degree of confidence whether a car left the factory with a transmission in the snap ring range.
Cars with snap ring range transmissions started showing up in the U.S. VIN sequence in the '91 model year, around VIN MT002600. For cars that are somewhere around that number, they might or might not have a snap ring transmission. For cars whose VIN is significantly higher than that, they almost certainly left the factory with a transmission in the snap ring range, all the way up to the end of the model year, which was around MT003220. Of course, it's possible that the transmission was replaced after the car left the factory, so if you don't have a complete service history, you would need to check the transmission number to verify whether it still has its original (snap ring range) transmission.
The same thing is true for cars in the early part of the '92 model year, but I don't know what the VIN value was at the time that they stopped installing snap ring range transmissions. I know of at least one case in which a VIN over NT001000 had a snap ring transmission. '92 VINs went up to about NT001280.
