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      03-30-2020, 06:41 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by ynguldyn View Post
The last 7 digits are no longer guaranteed to be unique. This started somewhere around mid-2019 and affects vehicles produced in Munich and Dingolfing. You will need to use the complete VIN to find your car if the first letter of that 7-letter portion is C (Dingolfing) or F (Munich). That's how it is right now but other plants will likely follow suit in the future.

Any tool that only asks for the last 7 digits is now obsolete and needs to be updated. You're seeing the 90s cars because the official database now returns two matching VINs and the tools, not knowing that this is possible, just take the first one.
thanks for explaining
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