Ben M

Hi everyone, i'm after a little help... I bought a Yamaha Virago recently and i'm about to get it ready to go on the road, I was looking at ordering some parts when i came across a slightly confusing issue... My V5C states that the bike is a Yamaha XVS125 in red, first registered in 2003... but i'm not convinced... Its on a 2003 plate and when i bought it i ran a check, the reg & vin matched and it said it was not an import. The other week i was giving it a look over and noticed that it has quite a few japanese stickers on it, didn't really take too much notice as it is a yamaha. I checked the vin on the bike and found the model sticker (what was left of it) to check i was ordering the right parts.... And thats where the confusion started... I jumped onto http://www.yamaha-motor.eu/uk/information/parts-catalogue.aspx to create a picking slip, but the vin wasn't going in, decided to do a manual search and couldn't seem to find the right model code or year... I went back to the bike and checked the sticker on the frame... It shows the bike as a Yamaha XV125S, not a XVS125 as the log book states, so i'm inclined to beleive whats on the bike. The vin is 9 digits long starting with 4RF (the log book only shows the 6 digits after this) All that was left on the model code sticker was 4RF6 010 In the top right of the sticker it has 98/12... Am i correct in assuming that this bike was made in December 1998?? I downloaded the XV125S and the XVS125 handbooks, and looking through them, my tank and clocks are XV125S and it clearly has Virago on the tank. If the bike was a 2003 non import, wouldn't it have a 17 digit vin? Looking on the Yamaha-Motor site, these are the model codes for the Dragstars & Viragos XVS125 # 2000 = 5JX1 # 2001 = 5JX3 # 2002 = 5JX5 # 2004 = 5JX7 XV125S # 1999 = 5AJB # 2000 = 5AJF XV125 # 1998 = 5AJ5 I just cant seem to find anything for 4RF6 except part numbers starting in 4RF, which seem to fit various models. Anyone got any ideas?