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Originally Posted by ng2951
I was looking at TM the other day. The name plate says it was manufactured a year earlier than the title. The title vin and name plate vin match.
Which year is correct?
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Well, they both are correct, as Bill and Arniland stated.
The actual year the trailer was manufactured and the model year that TrailManor assigned to a particular trailer can be different sometimes. (as in other manufacturers products too)
A manufacturing company (whether Trailmanor or any others) can designate their product to be next years model (or later) when they want to. They may change certain options or other manufacturing processes to reflect what the next years model is going to have earlier than January 1 of the next year. They will list the trailer and corresponding VIN number to reflect this. You will need to know exactly what year they assigned to the trailer in order to get correct parts for it. We discussed on how to properly decode the VIN number to see what the manufacturer assigned to the trailer several weeks back in the following forum.
http://www.trailmanorowners.com/foru...ead.php?t=6737
Now to the actual manufacturing date. Some states Department of Motor Vehicles will use the actual manufacturing date of the vehicle/trailer when issuing titles (as Paul Heuvelhurst pointed out in the above forum), while other states will use the manufacturers assigned model year. Because of this, you can actually get a title that has a different year model listed on it, instead of what year model the manufacturer assigned it.
Being in the parts business myself, the model year the manufacturer assigns their product is more important to us in correctly getting the right parts for it, than what model year a DMV puts on the title.
However, if the trailer is listed as older, it does affect the blue book/resell value. This is either good or bad depending on if you are buying or sellling.
Are we thoroughly confused now?