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Posted by water buffalo
 - November 07, 2013, 22:01:12 PM

My VIN ends in 9xaoo4188 These are the numbers after the pre-printed characters on the sticker. not sure that means.....

Posted by Troll
 - October 26, 2013, 19:25:09 PM
Quote from: kawasaki101 on October 26, 2013, 07:38:54 AM

Anybody here know what and/or where the build date stamp is on 1999 1500 Drifter's?

When I first got my R model, I didn't have an owner's manual (who does?) so I poked around and found this J manual. I have since found an R-1 manual....The labels are clearly marked, but they also say US only....

Posted by yamaha101
 - October 26, 2013, 07:38:54 AM

Anybody here know what and/or where the build date stamp is on 1999 1500 Drifter's?

Posted by Drifter1500
 - June 19, 2013, 20:11:13 PM

My 2000 is 0571, built in Jan. of 2000. Did I win the prize?

Posted by Jobi
 - June 02, 2013, 12:59:23 PM

A 1999 Drifter 1500 with the VIN ending with 001215 here. According to what I can get this means mine was the 215th built?

Posted by John Hopkins
 - May 17, 2013, 05:31:01 AM

Yes..

The numbers are for the 1500 only..

one number for US Canada Australia.

Another for Germany, Switzerland Austria.

and another for General which includes Britain.

for the 1999 Drifters they begin

JKBVNA

JKBVNT
or
VNT50

It seems that after 1999 the VNT50 numbers were discontinued so maybe they amalgamated two markets or stopped selling to one for some reason..

It also seems that there are no listed numbers for 2000, possibly because they had overestimated the sales for 1999, if this is the case there will be more 1500's made in 1999 than any other year.

John.

Posted by pcarrell
 - May 16, 2013, 08:48:11 AM

So it's country dependent?  That is a strange system!

Posted by John Hopkins
 - May 15, 2013, 19:27:46 PM

Mine is a J1 by the numbers it was built halfway through 2000, first registered in 2001 but is a 1999 model with FI, the analogue speedo and the 16 litre seamed tank..

But it was sold in Britain and our VIN is made up of a different sequence..

the first British VIN is J1 1999 JKBVNT50JJA000001
NOTHING FOR 2000
J2 2001 JKBVNT50JJA010001
R1 2001 JKBVNT50JRA015001
R2 2002 JKBVNT50JRA005001
R3 2003 JKBVNT50JRA020001
R4 2004 JKBVNAR1*4A010001

* DENOTES VARIABLE DIGIT..

my number is JKBVNT50JJA004527 and my bike was registered in  July 2001 so it looks like it was the 4527th bike to be made for the British market..that seems an awful lot of J1's to be sold in such a small market, in fact it is probably more than they sold at any time in Britain.

Kawasaki have a very strange numbering system.

John.

Posted by pcarrell
 - May 15, 2013, 16:51:29 PM
Quote from: Troll on May 15, 2013, 07:29:58 AM

His is a J and mine's an R, so the series numbers will start over each time there is a change.

But the first two posters were both J models separated by a year.
Posted by Troll
 - May 15, 2013, 15:12:00 PM

Prize? There was a prize? I never win anything....

Posted by 45 Bravo
 - May 15, 2013, 13:46:36 PM

My 99 1500 is marked 03/99  and is number 1834.
Looks like I got screwed for the prize, even though mine was made in the first 3 months of 1999.

So, let's go the other way. who got the last one built?

(Definitely not me)

45 Bravo

Posted by chief
 - May 15, 2013, 11:45:13 AM

I will wager Denny Berg's Drifter is close to the lowest. Kaw gave him one of the first ones off the line.

http://vulcandrifterriders.com/photogallery/showphoto.php?photo=2841&title=1209sa2&cat=500

Posted by greenbarn
 - May 15, 2013, 11:10:43 AM
Quote from: Troll on May 15, 2013, 07:29:58 AM

His is a J and mine's an R, so the series numbers will start over each time there is a change. I wonder about the fact my "01 was built in  July of 2000 and my W, which is a 2000 was built in May of 2000....

Every vehicle mfg. does this kind of stuff.  I think they can switch model years any time they want to.  I've seen cars built as early as the month of april being labeled as the following model year, e.g. build date 4/01, but 10th digit in VIN is "2", making it officially a 2002 model.  It's almost a sure bet anything after about August, is the following model year.  June-July seems to be about 50/50.  This is all just from observation.

Posted by Troll
 - May 15, 2013, 07:29:58 AM

His is a J and mine's an R, so the series numbers will start over each time there is a change. I wonder about the fact my "01 was built in  July of 2000 and my W, which is a 2000 was built in May of 2000....

Posted by pcarrell
 - May 15, 2013, 00:04:55 AM

Seems a goofy system........

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