2015 AI registered as 2014

[Lily&Me]

Thanks, Gnorts....that makes a lot of sense, and is along the lines of what made sense to me.

Should a buyer question the Interstate model year, the original paperwork exists to show it.



Maggie

[Boxster1971]

I agree with Gnorts. Most DMVs and insurance companies have a database of VINs. When they pull up the VIN of an Sprinter van they see a picture of the vehicle. When I registered mine in Maryland the clerk let me look at her computer screen. She registered it as a MB Sprinter van which was OK with me because my HOA does not allow RVs to be parked in neighborhood. HOA has exemption for passenger vans - so mine is a 7 passenger conversion van done by Airstream on a Mercedes Sprinter.

[InterBlog]

Originally Posted by gambita

My RV insurance record, it is a 2015 model.
Just in case an accident happen ie total loss, i am worried my insurance will appraise it as 2014 , not 2015

The push-back we got was not from DMV - it was from our insurance company, which refused to use our Airstream year (2007), wanting instead our Sprinter year (2006), to the point where they made us go back to the state of Texas inspection station and forced US to compel THEM to change the vehicle ID number in the paperwork to reflect the Sprinter year (the records had originally been issues on the Airstream year). Sorry for the convoluted sentence but you get the idea.

It is possible that their motivation was to achieve a lower de facto appraisal value. If so, that effort was moot because we subsequently renegotiated a declared-value policy (that whole mess is discussed in this thread).