Spanish Chassis Number

[bob_g]

I'm looking for the chassis number on my car - the car is (I understand) a spanish built car from 1988, and so the chassis plate isn't the same as the other ones I've seen.

Rectangular plate on passenger side of bulkhead :


FABRICACION
DE AUTOMIVILES
RENAULT DE ESPANA SA

B0016
VS51128xx
J00017xx (stamped)

1090kg
1095kg
1520kg
2650kg


And the oval plate on the drivers side of the bulkhead is:

1128
43161
E029xxx

Can someone decipher which (if any) is the chassis number, and where I should be able to find it on the chassis?

Thanks

 

[malcolm]

The chassis number is stamped on the top of the front crossmember underneath the front of the RHS seat. Move the seat back and go in there with a torch and you should be able to make it out. That location is peculiar to Spanish made R4s.

It'll be the number starting with VS51128.

 

[bob_g]

Excellent - I'll go and check

Thanks for the help

 

[bob_g]

The number stamped in the chassis is, as you say, the number beginning VS, followed by the number beginning J0

Job done

Do the numbers tell me anything else exciting?

 

[angel]

Not much, except for 43 161 (43=berline "luxe", 161=equipment code according to country of destination)

 

[malcolm]

I don't know what the Spanish numbers mean. The 1128 part means a latish car with 1108cc engine. In the Spanish case it is mixed with a load of features from earlier cars with a few special extras that can come in really handy if you want to fit a late engine into an early car (sadly that's where mine went).