Your Blend/Build Date is On the Car

[GT Pony]

Not sure if anyone has posted about this ... I haven't seen it mentioned if they have.

I was looking at the info label in the door jamb the other day, and it occurred to me that the blend/build date is "hidden" on the label. There will also be a build date located in the upper LH corner of the label that just shows the month & year of the build.

See the red box in the attached photo, which shows the actual blend/build date which is located bottom center on the door jamb label. I verified this with the blend date on my window sticker. Mine is Dec 12, 2014 ... shown as "20141212" (yyyymmdd format) in the red box.

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[Interceptor]

Interesting

 

[bigriver]

Also by vin lookup on etis.ford.com

 

[GT Pony]

Don't need a computer to look it up, just open the driver's door and look at the sticker.

 

[jenksdrummer]

Same as how it is on the sticker.

Also, blend date is the target completion date; not the start date as I've seen posted everywhere. Considering the blend date and when my car completed and started shipping, it lines up.

 

[ElAviator72]

I've noticed, too, on my car, there's some stampings along the trunk lip (beneath the trunk lid) that say 02262016. My car's blend date was 03/02/2016, so I can see that the body was possibly stamped out a couple of days before they put everything together :cheers:

 

[Cobra Jet]

All Mustang sheet metal has had tooling stamping date codes since inception. It’s one way of knowing if the sheet metal is original to the vehicle when looking to buy a used Mustang (pertains mainly to Classics, but can be used for modern day as well).

There should also be a BUC tag affixed to the body somewhere, that has partial VIN, and some build codes; it was usually tacked to the radiator support (if Ford still tags body shells as such).


Just curious, whatever happened to the VIN tags/decals that were present on the body panels from 1987-the early 2000’s?

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