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Ill check mine tonight. So bascially you guys are saying if the numbers are engraved its reason to be abit sus.

Its funny because I generally like a nice neat, engraved plate. I hate the stickers you know get for compliance etc. From memory I think mines engraved, but has been fasted and everything lines up fine, right down to the factory options it came with.

interesting...

However I will confirm once I get home from work tonight

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Sort of related......... There is a website called japanodometercheck.com havent been brave enough to look yet but its a site where u can pay a fee ($60 for one off queery, or $200 for an account for as many as u want) then provide your vin/chassis number. The japanese auction house data bases will be searched on your behalf and the cars actual mileage at auction reported back to you?

Anyone used it?

BTW My Stag has r34 and plate is just barely feelably engraved.?

ok r33s should have smooth plates and r34s should have engraved plates is what i have heard..

i like this guy...he gives a straight foward answer..even if he is mistaken....anyone heard anything else like this??

i just got pm'd from a guy that has a r34 and his plate is thinnly engraved like mine....i asked him if his car is non turbo or turbo....because thats what i have narrowed down the diffrence 2...hopefully this will answer some questions...i have also pm's some other ppl who have rb25de's and ill post up what they say....so far i have had r34 gtt's telling me they have smooth..and i have r33's telling me they have engraved...

Yea dude thats what it looks like. Atm we have the r34 gtt's with smooth blue plates and the r34 gt's (rb25de engines) with the engraved......this is good....if any more r34 gtt's and r34 gt's can confirm this it would be great....

just check my r34 (gtfour na), its lightly engraved.

The plate itself is so finely engraved i doubt any dodgy person would beable to redo it by hand, its just too neat.

Im not worried haha, i know the guy that owned it previously and it was a personal import, shes a pearla :D

To be honest. The plate on my GTT i think is printed, only because the lookd of it. The writing is also white which i think is a dead give away. However, it did take me a while to decide.

In the end the fact the writing is white not silver says to me its printed :D

To be honest. The plate on my GTT i think is printed, only because the lookd of it. The writing is also white which i think is a dead give away. However, it did take me a while to decide.

In the end the fact the writing is white not silver says to me its printed :kiss:

my writing is also white but its slightly engraved? =/

my writing is also white but its slightly engraved? =/

ok this could lead to be a problem...if people cant figure out if ther plates are engraved or not....for all we know each persons observation could be diffrent from the others.....and it wouldnt be proper to start posting pictures of our blue plates up.... so we cant compare blue plates like that.... the only thing i can think of is on the next big cruise ( for me it will be the hill's meet-up posted in the nsw events forum) we just all look at eachothers blue plates and compare...thats the only thing i can think of...

this is still confusing the hell out of me tho,you would think that nissan would be consistent on this matter - you would think that they would have some sort of system atlest for each r model....and i cant imagine all these ppl having rebuilds or rebirths....

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