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?