Re: Packard Decoder

Posted by BigKev On 2021/3/15 8:50:02

There was an extraneous HTML tag that was causing the msg that 1601 was not a valid model number error not to display.

That has been fixed. Also if you look at the last line in the exceptions to the Vehicle Number format:

Canadian built, Custom Bodied, and Export vehicles may differ from the standard format, and are beyond the scope of this information.

This covers "custom" bodied vehicles as they use their own schemas.

This works off of body numbers, not chassis numbers. The model info pages provide a cross between the two. But there is no way to provide any additional information as a bare chassis could have been turned into any variety of finished bodies. Hence why they are out of scope of the decoder. If someone has a custom bodied vehicle, they are generally going to know far more about it than the decoder would provide anyway.