Build Week Question- 03E or 04A?
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Build Week Question- 03E or 04A?
Something I haven't given too much thought about but the coming week is all too perfect of an example. Does the changing of the month affect the build week? I got asked this question and I had to give pause. So I figured I'd ask the experts.
If a car is built March 30 or 31 it's build week code would be 03E. How about a car built on April 1, 2 or 3? Would that be 04A?
This is how I interpret this shaking out. It only makes practical sense to me. Week 03E would have only 2 build days in it, and 04A would have 3 build days. So the build weeks like this are actually 2 separate build weeks. Thinking that you have to treat cars built in March as March cars, and cars built in April as April cars, and whatever week of that month they were built, that was the week they got. Now, I can understand that a car built 03E may actually be produced on April 1 or 2. But in my mind, the car started life in March. When the body tag is stamped, that's it's "born-on" week.
Or am I getting this wrong? Anything I'm missing here?
If a car is built March 30 or 31 it's build week code would be 03E. How about a car built on April 1, 2 or 3? Would that be 04A?
This is how I interpret this shaking out. It only makes practical sense to me. Week 03E would have only 2 build days in it, and 04A would have 3 build days. So the build weeks like this are actually 2 separate build weeks. Thinking that you have to treat cars built in March as March cars, and cars built in April as April cars, and whatever week of that month they were built, that was the week they got. Now, I can understand that a car built 03E may actually be produced on April 1 or 2. But in my mind, the car started life in March. When the body tag is stamped, that's it's "born-on" week.
Or am I getting this wrong? Anything I'm missing here?
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I think those are short weeks. A car on 5E could be made on the same week as 6A. It's a regulation date that serves to help federal recalls. I'm involved with the laser printers that do them for modern Toyotas. Our labels go MM/YY and we print the vin at the same moment, and that is when the car becomes a car. I imagine Fisher did it the same way. Assembly shops are sequential, paint shops are buffers of groups. Once you get it in The Order It Will Leave In, you put the tag on it and it becomes A Car as opposed to a pile of parts.
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Something I haven't given too much thought about but the coming week is all too perfect of an example. Does the changing of the month affect the build week? I got asked this question and I had to give pause. So I figured I'd ask the experts.
If a car is built March 30 or 31 it's build week code would be 03E. How about a car built on April 1, 2 or 3? Would that be 04A?
If a car is built March 30 or 31 it's build week code would be 03E. How about a car built on April 1, 2 or 3? Would that be 04A?
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The tire and rims are correct in the picture with your mom sitting on the fender. Looks like the tire changed during the wedding and now looks like a newer rims with snap on centers. Not seeing the w-30 decal on the fenders. hard too see.
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