Vin help

[DirtyBrown]

A friend bought a gs 850, he believes it's a 1982 and needs to get a bonded title. The number in the neck doesn't look like a vin. It's gs850-70208, what is this?

[Steve]

Definitely not a VIN.

Sounds more like an engine number, but that's not right, either.

If you can show a couple of pictures of it, we can probably give you the year, but you will have to come up with your own serial number.

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[tkent02]

Steve, read the other thread. That is what Suzuki VINs looked like before the standardized 17 number vins were required.

Just looked at my 550, GS550E-39573

[Steve]

True enough, Tom, but by '82 they had the standardized 17-digit numbers.

That is why I asked for pictures, it might be a '79 or '80 850, not an '82.

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[tkent02]

True enough, Tom, but by '82 they had the standardized 17-digit numbers.

That is why I asked for pictures, it might be a '79 or '80 850, not an '82.

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Exactly, but it is a VIN, or it could be an engine number.

To the OP, VIN and engine number do not ever match on the old Suzukis.

[jabcb]

Post a pic of the VIN along with pics of the bike.
If its an early GS then the VIN should have one more digit.

If the frame VIN is actually GS850-700208 then its a 1980 GS850GLT.

The engine VIN will not match.
If its the original, the 1980 engine VIN would be after GS850-116520

Another possibility is that the "7" is actually a "1".
Frame VIN of GS850-100208 would make it a 1979 GS850GN

VIN lists:
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[DirtyBrown]

Thanks

Thanks for the help, I told the guy about this site and forum, I gave him the info so he can get into this thread and see all the info, He'll have lots more questions to ask.