MOPARManiac wrote:cruz wrote:RustyPW wrote:Remember back in the DT days. We all thought that '09 was going to be the last year for the PW.

'09
was the last year for the PW.

at 4Gs.
I'd still like to find out what number my '05 was made during that production year. Had it not been for Dodge's claim back then, that they were sequentially numbered, the thought would of never entered my mind.
902614 is the sequential serial number of your VIN. Compared to the numbers made and that number I do not see how just the PW's were sequentially numbered. 615 could have been a diesel and 613 something else. I don't see anyway how they could have been sequentially numbered unless all the 2005 PW's were made at one time. That is highly doubtful.
I did a little "research" on this issue. I think I figured out what went down with the 2005 sequentially numbered Power Wagon.
They reserved a block of VINs starting with 5G900001 and assigned VINs from that block to Power Wagon orders only. The block sequence beginning at 5G900001 (through 5G902672) has only Power Wagons builds, but the VINs are not completely contiguous. The minor "holes" I'm sure are canceled orders and such. Again, there are only Power Wagons built after 5G900001.
Also, even though most of the Power Wagon VINs are grouped together, they certainly were not assembled in one mass group. 5G900001 was built on 11/17/2004 and 5G902672 was built on 5/6/2005 (these are not necessarily the first and last PW builds!)
Where they screwed up is when they built the Pilot trucks. There are 53 surviving Pilots that were sold to the general public. Problem is they were assigned from the standard block of VINs for 2005 which began with 5G700001. First Power Wagon pilot was 5G700027 and the last PW pilot sequence was 5G720063. Some of these PW pilots are grouped sequentially, but many examples of "other" trucks having a VIN assigned among the Power Wagon pilots. So the sequential thing does not hold up for the pilots.
Another marketing ploy gone wrong I guess.
Hope this helps.
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