VIN search results help please

[will9871]

Season's Greetings all, just ran a quick VIN check on my car out of curiosity and the only thing I hate about owning my car is the general sense of dread in owning it without any service history and a pretty much guaranteed fiddled odometer. You may ask why I bought the car but its how Mercedes ownership is in Hungary, either paying the mega bucks for the new ones from dealers or vaguely knowing what you are up against and having a good Merc indie mechanic as a friend. As I met the latter criteria I went for buying from one of the country's many delboys.

Just wondered about some of these options that the VIN search returned and wondered if anyone can shed any light on what some of them mean.

The options I'm stuck on are :-

026 - production test new engines (ECE-chassis with USA-engine) (с 19.06.1996)

802 - Change of year of model, last figure shows new model year

853 - production test bm 124125 (с 01.01.1978)

954 - equipment package for avantgarde vehicles (с 01.06.1993)
rotating emergeny flasher, front (red light) ((its the red emergency flasher part I dont get here))

988 - ownership certificate and COC papers with EC model plate (с 01.06.1993)


Vehicle was bought in Munich originally and imported into Hungary in 2004 at about 3 years old.

Any help in shedding light on what the hell some of these options mean would be much appreciated, could perhaps shed some light on the vehicle's unknown to me past.

 

[Alfie]

Season's Greetings all, just ran a quick VIN check on my car out of curiosity and the only thing I hate about owning my car is the general sense of dread in owning it without any service history and a pretty much guaranteed fiddled odometer. You may ask why I bought the car but its how Mercedes ownership is in Hungary, either paying the mega bucks for the new ones from dealers or vaguely knowing what you are up against and having a good Merc indie mechanic as a friend. As I met the latter criteria I went for buying from one of the country's many delboys.

Just wondered about some of these options that the VIN search returned and wondered if anyone can shed any light on what some of them mean.

The options I'm stuck on are :-

026 - production test new engines (ECE-chassis with USA-engine) (с 19.06.1996)

802 - Change of year of model, last figure shows new model year

853 - production test bm 124125 (с 01.01.1978)

954 - equipment package for avantgarde vehicles (с 01.06.1993)
rotating emergeny flasher, front (red light) ((its the red emergency flasher part I dont get here))

988 - ownership certificate and COC papers with EC model plate (с 01.06.1993)


Vehicle was bought in Munich originally and imported into Hungary in 2004 at about 3 years old.

Any help in shedding light on what the hell some of these options mean would be much appreciated, could perhaps shed some light on the vehicle's unknown to me past.

I think you got that datacard info from a well know Russian site.

The option descriptions are often wrong on that site.

954 I think is sports suspension.

802 is model year 2002

Send me the full chassis/VIN number and I'll get you the real data for the car.

 

[Diesel Benz]

954 is actually the Avantgarde model, it does mean sportier suspension too.

026 is a nice option: "discontinuation of spare key". I guess this is the third key?

853 is one of the earlier Nokia hands free options.

 

[will9871]

thanks for the help thus far, sorry mate cant use PMs yet as not reached 30 posts, probs shouldnt just lob it in here either as I've heard its not a good idea to broadcast your VIN? Or am I just being paranoid?

Yeah I love the old school nokia handset in the middle armrest, doesnt work when I come back to the UK though guess it was before the era of quadband technology which is a shame as its very helpful on motorway hauls to Vienna/Kyiv/Ljubljana/Bratislava or back home (Middlesbrough lol).

No idea on the keys, I have 2, only one works oddly enough by wear it looks like the main key. Isnt half inched though as you need a legal bit of paperwork saying the car's chassis number, reg and VIN arent wanted in any EU country, even from delboy dealers. Sounds ominous though, best hope I dont lose both of them.

 

[Diesel Benz]

Yeah I love the old school nokia handset in the middle armrest, doesnt work when I come back to the UK though guess it was before the era of quadband technology which is a shame as its very helpful on motorway hauls to Vienna/Kyiv/Ljubljana/Bratislava or back home (Middlesbrough lol).

You should not need a quad band phone in Europe, I'm not aware of a place where US frequencies would be used (850 and 1900, I'm not familiar with the Kyiv kind of places though). If you select your cellular operator properly, you would be just fine with a single band GSM 900 phone (capacity at some rush hours might be an issue, not coverage). Abroad you would be able to pick up the best GSM 900 network (which anyway provides the best rural coverage).

 

[will9871]

yeah thats what I was saying, it works just dandy out here and in any other continental European country can select from an array of networks to connect to.

Just when I come back to the UK I cannot select any network not matter which one I try it fails to connect to any of them , not really a problem tbh as I am only in the UK with the car once or maybe twice a year.

Any of you see a silver bus with a Hungarian plate in a heap of black smoke on the hardshoulder, chances are that'll be me

 

[Diesel Benz]

yeah thats what I was saying, it works just dandy out here and in any other continental European country can select from an array of networks to connect to.

Just when I come back to the UK I cannot select any network not matter which one I try it fails to connect to any of them , not really a problem tbh as I am only in the UK with the car once or maybe twice a year.

Any of you see a silver bus with a Hungarian plate in a heap of black smoke on the hardshoulder, chances are that'll be me

I think we both misunderstood each other. So this is not a UK SIM card? I don't see why it would not connect to any of the GSM 900 networks, unless the phone is blacklisted in the UK?