What year would my car be? Options

[Alex-UKSC]

I have owned my Celica for 4 months or so & read on the net that the high level brake light on the boot was introduced in Oct 1995, this means mine can't be the 1994 model (UK M reg) it's registered as due to having this brake light.

Is there any other features i can look for to find out the year?

[BLINKYxMUNKEY]

Front bumper. 94-95 are different than 96-99. Look in my profile to see a 96+ and then yours look like 94-95.

This post has been edited by BLINKYxMUNKEY: Nov 19, 2006 - 8:48 PM

[Alex-UKSC]

It's either a 94 or 95 but i'm worried it may be registered wrong when it was brought to the UK from Japan.

[BLINKYxMUNKEY]

Try looking up the vin number or is it different than in the states?

[azian_advanced]

check your door jamb or the door itself for the sticker.. it will say what month and year it was manufactured.


here's mine. the date is on the top right corner of the sticker

[TomPoz]

There are two important differences in communication of dates - there is model date and production date. Typically production is earlier than model. So the case could be that Oct 1995 is model date for introduction of some features but actually the cars were in production already in 1994.

I know a case when a guy totalled his Carlos Sainz, insurance wanted to pay him based on AWD prices as they said that CS was introduced one year later than production date of this guy's car. This was exactly the difference between model and production dates.

[malpaso]

If you want to know exactly year and month of made, MP me your VIN number and I'll take a look in EPC.

[Alex-UKSC]

I'll Go check that sticker & get my VIN.

Thanks everyone

[Alex-UKSC]

No Sticker other than one in Japanese & Just reading a post about the JDM VIN & i'm mega confused.

[malpaso]

hope it's one of mine posts . I believe best is this one (I hope ). However you should find something like this on your car:

Frame number (like ST202-0130523) and Model number (like ST202-BLPZF)



That plate you can find here:

[Alex-UKSC]

yeah i have that, so shall i PM you Frame & model

[malpaso]

yeah i have that, so shall i PM you Frame & model

go ahead...

[Alex-UKSC]

Found this on the net so this means mine is a 1995 as i have ST202


Year, month - Frame

1994, february - ST205
1994, september - ST202C
1995, august - ST202, ST203, ST205
1996, january - ST202C
1996, june - ST202, ST203, ST205
1997, december - ST202, ST202C, ST205
1999, january - ST202, ST202C, ST205
1999, september - ZZT230, ZZT231
2000, september - ZZT230, ZZT231
2002, august - ZZT230, ZZT231

This post has been edited by Alex-UKSC: Nov 20, 2006 - 8:05 AM

[Alex-UKSC]

& have now found that they only made JDM SS cars from august 1995 so how come so many peeps say they have a 1994 SSII.



This post has been edited by Alex-UKSC: Nov 20, 2006 - 8:21 AM

[malpaso]

for all wondering here , it's 1994/08

[Alex-UKSC]

Nice job mate as that puts my mind at rest as thats the same date it's registered as.

Your a star

[malpaso]

check your door jamb or the door itself for the sticker.. it will say what month and year it was manufactured.

here's mine. the date is on the top right corner of the sticker

true, true

[azian_advanced]

whoa... nice. i never knew our epc's had that feature.

[Paul_Celica_GT]

Your car could just have a 1995+ boot from a different Celica.

[TomPoz]

Martin, check my frame and model numbers - I'll PM you in few seconds.