how can you tell the year of manufacture of an XTZ.
does the frame or engine number have a code etc ?

hi, what colour is your bike? it may be enough

its gloss bike, my mate is actually looking for one now but I know there a quite a few old but unregistered bikes out there (eg I know of a 2008 bike (its white so its a give away) that is on an 11 plate with very few miles on the clock. the dealer thinks its worth a bit of cash (�5800 !!!) because its white.

But its still a 4 year old bike.

Mine is a 2010 bike but was only registered last month as a 2012. I got it for a very good price.

I thought there may be something in the frame number to signify its year of biuld.

hi, I have no idea as to working the age from the vin plate,

if i have a crosser in for some work I normally contact my local dealer with the number, who then checks it out before ordering parts.

so if you have a number get on the phone!, let them do the leg work.

Hi,

just check the yamaha spare parts catalogue. You can enter your VIN-Number there to find out what spare parts would fit your bike. And, as a benefit, it would tell you the year of manufacturing...

Cheers,
lamo

Hey, pretty cool.

Here, I think I found the link too
Click Yamaha Online Parts Catalogue

cheers for that gents, just confirmed my bike was made in 2010 which is what it was sold as.
The yamaha web site is pretty handy as well.

Don't European sold motorcycles have a compliance plate riveted to the frame, telling you date of manufacture and compliance standard info???

Is this another Australian thing?

I think AUZ and NZ the same there is a manufacture date tag on cars and bikes so the customer can see, even in Third world Thailand all cars have a Manufacture date.

Just checked my 2011 UK registered xt660z seems the bike was manufactured 2008 this has really Fked me off this morning as i thought i had bought a 2010/2011 bike with all the mods not some old shagger!! especially when i am riding to Thailand this summer, certainly dont want any rectifier problems or air box problems.
I thought [wrong] that this was the idea of the 17 digit vin number where the 10th digit was the year of manufacture??? obviously a load of ****e.
I feel the need to head to Pattaya for some R and R very soon

Your government's NIDIRECT website says motorcycles only need a VIN stamped in the frame and MSVA compliance plate- the EU standards for motorbikes. It says nothing about the year of manufacture to be spelled out.

I used the Yammie site to look up my bike's model year too, as the only thing that indicated the year was a stamp on the exhaust, saying 2010. My bike turned out to be a 2011, like the salesman said it was!

In the States, the motorbike manufacturers have to put the model year of the bike and all smog related equipment manufacture dates on a plate, clearly accessible for the bike to become registered at the motor vehicle departments.