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12-26-2016, 04:02 PM
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vin location on a 1998 176SD
I just bought a '98 Flagstaff 176SD and there does not appear to be a vin plate on it. There is a sticker next to the door with a 7 digit number on it but maybe this is the serial number. I also have a sticker inside the door but most of it is illegilble save the GVWR info. Any ideas? Thanks for looking!
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12-26-2016, 04:03 PM
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Sometimes on a RV, you will have the VIN number on a label inside a kitchen cabinet above a sink. You having a popup, it may be different.
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12-26-2016, 09:30 PM
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On popups I have owned, the VIN is stamped into the frame on the driver's side of the A.
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12-26-2016, 09:58 PM
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Thanks, Fred. I was looking for a tag/ plate. I will check that tomorrow.
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12-27-2016, 08:15 AM
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On mine, the actual VIN sticker (white) is next to the weight sticker (yellow) on the left side of the trailer A-frame...
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12-27-2016, 08:25 AM
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Should be stamped on the frame somewhere . If it had a sticker it probably faded out long ago. 
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12-27-2016, 02:48 PM
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Those stickers are five years old and still easily readable. And three of those years it was primarily parked in the sun in Moab UT. Not all stickers fade.
I have never seen a stamping in the frame with the VIN number.
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Trailer: Lifted 228BH, heavy duty springs and Yokohama tires DELAMINATED ROOF
TV: 2016 GMC Sierra Z71 4x4 CC, SLT
Spare TV: Two Alaskan Malamutes
Living somewhere in ID; previously lived in Moab UT; previous to that, don't ask!
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12-27-2016, 02:55 PM
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All my trailer Vin stickers are faded and not readable. Being a 1998 probably would be the case. All of my trailers RV and cargo have the VIN stamped on the frame.
Lets us know what you find..... 
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12-27-2016, 05:16 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by f5moab
Those stickers are five years old and still easily readable. And three of those years it was primarily parked in the sun in Moab UT. Not all stickers fade.
I have never seen a stamping in the frame with the VIN number.
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The OP has a nearly 20 year old popup, which never had those yellow stickers.
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12-27-2016, 06:20 PM
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I would never suggest that a car or trailer ever be purchased based on the vin number just on a sticker. They are too easy to fake. Here are a couple or trailers older stickers and a stamped vin. I would say 99% of all trailers have the vin stamped on the frame somewhere. Our 5th wheel has the vin in at least 3 places.
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12-27-2016, 07:22 PM
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I guess I have the ONE PERCENT, since I do not have any stamped numbers in the frame! Or at least on the sides of the frame.
What they used 20 years ago I have no idea. Possibly back then they had to use a stamp into the frame since non-fade sticker technology was, maybe, not invented yet. Not sure.
But we are talking a popup and not a 5th wheel or larger trailer.
Then again, maybe FR screwed up, which is a good possibility since they screw up about everything they make. 
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TV: 2016 GMC Sierra Z71 4x4 CC, SLT
Spare TV: Two Alaskan Malamutes
Living somewhere in ID; previously lived in Moab UT; previous to that, don't ask!
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12-27-2016, 07:54 PM
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I am fairly certain that the VIN has to be either stamped into the frame, or as on my Roo stamped into a steel plate that is riveted to the top of the A frame per the gubmint.......DOT possibly. I have seen a few that were totally invisible due to paint. Dealers love to send the snot nosed lot kid around with generic spray paint spraying over the frame rust the units leave the factory with. Usually they only do the areas a potential purchaser sees, like the A frame where the VIN is stamped.
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