Yeah, you're right. I didn't think of that.

When I tried to enter the VIN, I keep getting invalid number. It also may be my vision on some of the digits in that image.

 

So far based on the VIN, it looks like 1998 Honda Accord, 4-door, 4 cylinder, USA origin, built at the Marysville, Ohio plant. EX automatic (?)

It could also have been the previous owner swapped a F20 series engine into it.

 

I'm thinking it's an export car, so your decoder "knows" that it isn't a US-spec VIN.

JDM Accords were CF3, 4, 5; but I didn't find "CF9". Usually the CF would identify the body structure, and the last digit was stuff like trim level and/or engine. 1998 USDM Accords were CG.

 

There was this Export Service Bulletin which shows the 1HGCF9; so, you're probably right Jim.

http://www.tegger.com/hondafaq/tsb/accord/x98-043e.pdf

 

High trim levels (like EX) can still have smaller-displacement engines in say UK, Europe, or Japan. Even today as stock from the showroom.

 

The car appears to be a 1998 Honda Accord, 4-door, automatic, right-handed drive, 4 cylinder - 2.0 litre engine, USA origin, built at the Marysville, Ohio plant, EX and exported to country/areas of:

BARBADOS, CYPRUS, FIJI, GUYANA, HONG KONG, JAMAICA, MALAYSIA, MALAWI, MALTA, NIGERIA, PAKISTAN, PAPUA, SEYCHELLES, SOUTH AFRICA, SUDAN - (KU)

Refer to this thread for a few other images.
https://www.hondaaccordforum.com/for...13/#post287100

 

Has anyone heard from Finch13 since his last post.?
Like maybe in private..
I e-mailed him but never got and answer back..

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