Braddw25
Full Member
Hi everyone. I am wondering if any of you other Bronco owners have ever had trouble getting insurance for your early Broncos. The problem I'm running into is that when my insurance agent types my vin into the computer it comes up as a 1980 instead of a 1971. From everything I have read about vin decoding my vin appears to be a valid 1971 vin. THe number is an 11 letter/number combo starting with U15. The help desk for the software my agent uses is saying that a 71 Bronco is only supposed to have a 5 digit vin. That is completely contrary to everything I have read about decoding vins. From what I understand, the U15 is the series, the next digit is the engine, followed by the plant where it was built followed by a letter with 5 numbers that indicates the build month. That is a total of 11 digits that should be there. Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be here? Thanks for any insights.