VIN decode

[phorbiuz 38]

Can someone in the know do a mk5 VIN decode for me please? The VIN decoder doesn't have the options I've got. Colour is the key one please.

 

022c06 wf0nxxcbbncs00781

Drive: B

Engine: LC

Trans: D (although it could say 0)

Axle: N

Trim: T3

Type: BBNS

Colour: D1 (although it could say 01)

[richard 2509 0]

Colour code D for 1976-1982 (mk4/5 Cortinas) is CARNIVAL RED.No code O for these years.

[phorbiuz 38]

Colour code D for 1976-1982 (mk4/5 Cortinas) is CARNIVAL RED.No code O for these years.

 

Got me stumped then as it's a shade of grey.... I was thinking mercury but wanted some confirmation.

[richard 2509 0]

DOVE GREY is a Ford colour from these years is the digit on the plate a C ? What year is the car?

[richard 2509 0]

MERCURY GREY is a later Ford colour dating from about 1987 on.

[phorbiuz 38]

X plate, so 81/82 in my book. It's the mk5 in my signature, upper colour.

 

Ta.

[richard 2509 0]

Although it is difficult to tell from a photo it looks like GRAPHITE GREY over STRATOS SILVER.Correct me if I am wrong but was this colour scheme used on the mk2 GRANADA as well?

[83-GLS 2]

Graphite Grey was the only Mk5 shade of proper grey.

 

I always thought Dove Grey should have been called Dove Beige!

[bortaf 94]

A carousel will be Graphite Grey :thumbup:

only available in that with strato silver and forest/crystal green :wine:

[phorbiuz 38]

Thanks guys.

 

I guess we should look at adding more options to the VIN decoder then as it didn't have this colour scheme or the interior trim.

[bortaf 94]

Mk5s were all over the place, my GhiaS trim didn't exist on the decoder and TBH it was strange :headscratch: never seem it before? more granny style than cortina? i think by the end they just used what was laying about, see the crusader as a perfect example :thumbup:

Also had new Ghia door trims (early Mk5 brown) that no-one had ever seen (had a similar pattern the later chatsworth seat pattern on em ) but had an 80 part number :unsure: