What is this little window for???

[Bert]

Hi guys,

cannot figure this out: there is little window in the windscreen just below the wiper on the passenger side of my 2014 PHEV. As I got the car only for a few weeks now, I discovered it just recently :shock: It looks like a little LCD display or so but it does never show anything. So it must be a sensor for...???

http://app.box.com/s/zcuzlf6122sndorwxho5go589s3jscoj
(apologies for the dirty windscreen )

http://app.box.com/s/puwvlg7dzltg0na3sroqeq67jgp0rrad

Any ideas?

Thanks.

BERT

 

[HHL]

Hi guys,

cannot figure this out: there is little window in the windscreen just below the wiper on the passenger side of my 2014 PHEV. As I got the car only for a few weeks now, I discovered it just recently :shock: It looks like a little LCD display or so but it does never show anything. So it must be a sensor for...???

http://app.box.com/s/zcuzlf6122sndorwxho5go589s3jscoj
(apologies for the dirty windscreen )

http://app.box.com/s/puwvlg7dzltg0na3sroqeq67jgp0rrad

Any ideas?

Thanks.

BERT

That is where the VIN number is.....

 

[Neverfuel]

Hi guys,

cannot figure this out: there is little window in the windscreen just below the wiper on the passenger side of my 2014 PHEV. As I got the car only for a few weeks now, I discovered it just recently :shock: It looks like a little LCD display or so but it does never show anything. So it must be a sensor for...???

http://app.box.com/s/zcuzlf6122sndorwxho5go589s3jscoj
(apologies for the dirty windscreen )

http://app.box.com/s/puwvlg7dzltg0na3sroqeq67jgp0rrad

Any ideas?

Thanks.

BERT

That is where the VIN number is.....

Or was - depends if your car has had a replacement windscreen?

 

[Bert]

Thanks guys,

I bought the car 1 years old from a dealer. I need to ask them if it got a new windscreen....

Should the VIN be displayed even after a windscreen replacement or is it not common to restore the VIN info after a swap?

Cheers,
BERT

 

[jkh112]

A replacement windscreen should not affect the vin number. The vin number plate on top the dashboard is not removed for a new windscreen.
There is a gap behind the little window and the vin is on the dash top. You may have to look quite carefully to see it as it not immediately obvious.

 

[Carnut]

Ferry eenterestink! I realized it was the VIN window, but on inspection could find no VIN displayed, Curiosity now demands that I shall have to have another, closer shufty!

 

[Sharky]

This reminds me of a story some years ago from a friend who worked in the motor trade. Apparently the vin plate has to be read without having to step into the road, hence in the UK the Vin is on the 'left' passenger side. Due to a mix up at the car factory, left hand drive wind screens were fitted to right hand drive cars with the vin window placing the only difference between the two. The manufacture had to recall hundred's of cars to fit new windscreens.