How do I know the year of my ATV?
To change the oil, we needed to find the manual. To find the manual, we needed to discover the year our ATV was made.
If you're in the same boat,
look under the frame of the ATV on the left side for the 17-digit VIN
number. The 10th digit tells you the ATV's year:
A = 1980 B = 1981 C =
1982 D = 1983 E = 1984 F = 1985 G = 1986 H
= 1987 J = 1988 K = 1989 L = 1990 M =
1991 N = 1992 P = 1993 R = 1994 S =1995 T =
1996 V = 1997 W = 1998 X = 1999 Y = 2000 1
= 2001 2 = 2002 3 = 2003 4 = 2004 5 = 2005 6 =
2006 7 = 2007 8 = 2008 9 = 2009 A=2010
Our ATV is a 2002 model.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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