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Driver side shocker tower towards the inside of the bay, or the center of the rain tray, but yours should be on the tower. Try running a wire wheel over it but musk off where you don't want to expose any bare metal.
as petska mentioned, if it's in the rain tray, it's just in from the front lip. if it has one, you may have to peel back the plastic tray to find it, although they/mine have a clear section to see the number
The VIN is put by the manufacturer in Germany or when the vehicle is manufacturer.
The VIN plate in placed usually when the vehicle comes to Australia.
Hence, VIN and VIN plate are two separate items.
The VIN is stamped into the body under the rain cover and usually other 'secret places'. The VIN plate (ie compliance plate) is on the left suspension tower.
The VIN identifies the vehicle. The VIN plate just means VW complianced the vehicles to Australian Design Rules at month/year the VIN plate was fitted. There is also usually a 'build date' plate next to the compliance plate. The month/year it was built is here and is usually a few months before the compliance plate month/year.
Don't worry if a compliance plate is not fitted as vehicles without compliance plates can be registered - as least in NSW. Previous registration history helps solve any issues. The registering Authority just needs toinsure it is registering the correct vehicle, not a rebirth (eg stolen of written off vehicle).
I've found the letters/numbers stamped into the driver side turrett, I can feel the raised lettering under the paint so if there's any problems I'll grind the paint off. There's nothing in the raintray.
On all my other Golfs I'm pretty certain there was a VIN plate that was riveted to the slam panel, this MK1 has nothing.
Ordering parts? I think I once ordered parts back in the 80's.
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