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Old 25 May 2013
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They could fully well do the numbers at the factory, as they naturally do with all new bikes as well.
Swings and roundabouts.

If all frames, engines were stamped ...

Then what sequence does the factory follow when assembling them ? You do want the numbers to match from frame to engine on a new bike? Do the 'spares' get a special sequence number?

If unstamped
A person traveling on a carnet has the opportunity to duplicate their number on the new unstamped part - thus avoiding any paperwork hassles .. if the parts are not stamped...

Don't know what is better... :confused1:
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Ok, then do the stamping at the central warehouses of each continent. I think for Europe Honda has one in Belgium. Naturally do it after ordering, so the old frame number can be kept.

edit. Dealers will NOT keep stock of 3000 euro items, I can guarantee that. New frames stay with Honda, until someone places an order. So while this is of course more work for them, reading this thread makes me think maybe they should actually see that effort.
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Coincidentally I looked at a 2001 BMW 650CS today (that funny thing with a belt drive), with mere 2.000 miles on the clock and being in pristine condition, which had a large-size, perfectly cleanly engraved VIN set in asteriks, I´ll be interested to know about this.
BMW vins are indeed engraved with stars at the front and rear of the frame.
A frame was replaced in the dealership i work at last year and the person who stamped the new frame made a bodgery of it. It naturally came back to us for us to sort out. I ended up having to grind the frame back, fortunatley the vin plate was very thick and stuck out a bit from the frame itself so i had a bit of metal to work with. You should have seen my practice piece of steel, i swear by the end of it i could see the vin in my sleep lol. The best bit was doing the stars at the start and finish, you cannot get them as a stamp so i had to end up free hand scribing it into the vin plate. All came out well in the end i think i spent about 6 hours on it in total getting it right but still doenst look anything like a factory stamped frame as BMW engrave them in and the letters are twice as tall. We tried looking for someone that would engrave it but everyone we tried basically said the frame would be to big for them to work with, all the engravers we found were jewlers, trophy scribers etc. What really annoyed me was when i rang bmw about getting a suitable stamping kit they basically said any one would do, we already had a kit, yet they expect it to be done correctly. I dont see how we can do this correctly if they dont supply us with a kit with a jig etc. We had to write the customer a letter stating that we had replaced the frame for warranty and that all the details are on our system if it needs questioning.
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tonylester, thanks; quite interesting to know that BMW uses the asteriks even on the factory engraved number.

The Transalp is back in the shop since about a week now and we expect it to be returned with a new frame and acceptable frame number latest on Saturday.

We´re making jokes about the frames now, because the replacement frame the dealer ordered got lost on the way, so this is most certainly the Transalp with a record number of frames

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