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Put a piece of paper on it and use the "pencil trick" to get it to appear more clear.
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With the VIN number you can go to a dealer and get the engine SN or use Auto Atlanta for the same online.
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The safe bet is using the dealer.
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Put a piece of paper on it and use the "pencil trick" to get it to appear more clear.
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With the VIN number you can go to a dealer and get the engine SN or use Auto Atlanta for the same online.
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The safe bet is using the dealer.
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POST 1 / ORIGINAL POSTEROriginal post

Can anyone read/decode this? To me it looks like M96/03?66?00981 I'm not sure the character after 3 or any really it's very hard to read. The car is a 2004 40th so i think the character after the 3 should be 'S' but it looks like a sh1itty 8 or a B to me. photo327.jpg

POST 2Original post

My guess is 03868*00981

POST 3Original post

I see what looks like the capital N but wrong way around so it could be the M 96/03868400981. It is crappy, what ever it is.

POST 4Original post

Put a piece of paper on it and use the "pencil trick" to get it to appear more clear.

POST 5 / ORIGINAL POSTEROriginal post

Yeah sadly i thought of it after i looked at the car. I don't own it (yet) i'm considering a purchase.

POST 6Original post

Do you have the chassis SN? I assume you are looking for matching numbers. The chassis number may help make sense of this.

POST 7 / ORIGINAL POSTEROriginal post

By "Chassis SN" do you mean VIN? are they supposed to match? (excuse my ignorance)

POST 8Original post

That engine SN doesn't look like a replacement SN - no AT in the number. With the VIN number you can go to a dealer and get the engine SN or use Auto Atlanta for the same online.

POST 9Original post

I could make out M96 / 03868600981.

POST 10 / ORIGINAL POSTEROriginal post

So you're saying SAT only appears in replacement 345hp engines? I'm trying to figure out how the engine number proves that it's the 345hp engine. I'll contact a dealer too. See if I can find info that way.

POST 11Original post

I'm not an expert on this, but when I looked up my engine number (it's a replacement) my research told me that AT appears in all replacement engine numbers along with the year the replacement was built. I don't know if the X51 is an exception but I didn't bump into any information saying it was. The safe bet is using the dealer. My original point was if you knew what the engine number should be, it could help decipher the collection of dots that make up the SN.

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