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Evening guys and girls. Just a quick 1. How can you tell if your classic Scooby is an import??

I believe you can tell by the bolt on rear fog,

also by the scoob having a rear windscreen wiper.

But I am not 100% sure

There could also be chop sticks in the glove compartment. :lol:

i found the chop sticks but they say N/A on them. and so if it doesnt have a rear wiper its not an import?

Aerial location, rear wiper, aftermarket rear fog , jap number plate are a big giveaway ;)

the vin number is how you tell


- UK vin numbers are 17 digits where as jap vin numbers are 10 digits !

Log book will tell u when it was shipped into this country and by who cos my import does.

oooohhh thankyou guys....

rear windscreen if original will also have a small blue circular sticker on it, which is the jap equivliant of our kitemark or BS standard. rear windscreens hardly get changed so if it's not there, it's probably not JDM

as above the VIN number is the easiest, all the rest can easily be changed/disguised........

Mines a JDM as it has Ariel on the rear passenger wing, rear wiper but no blue sticker in the window, previous owner must have removed it. I did have a fog light hanging down but I converted one of my reverse lights in the standard cluster to just tidy up the back end.

What year ?
Turbo or NA ?

Thats what I did with the fog lights too, looks so much tidier.:nod:

It's all okay now thanks ive figured it out.

Thanks to EVERYONE that helped :yeah:

The thing that's puzzled me on my import is its been in this country since 2007 and its got no rear fog light at all not even fitted with a outside hanging off the bumper 1 god knows its past its mot all these years now I've got fit 1 on it lol

they may have wired it into the rear lights.I swapped out my jap ones and fitted UK lights so i wouldn't have that awful fog hanging below the bumper.

JDM classics also have robotic side mirrors. Sometimes.

No I've checked that as well nothing there

Yep mine do to confirm, so handy.

Flare and holder on left hand side under glove box, and japanese writing on inside of sun visors.:ok:

Mine still has the flare unused still on the holder lol

Aren't they quite rare to still be present in the car??

Far as I know yes they are or less some 1 knows other wise. I thought it be removed before shipped into this country

I have mine in its holder, Ive too have heard that original ones are rare.