2013 Audi A5 Exterior Paint Code, Engine Code and Transmission Code Location

Need help finding the paint and trim codes on your 2013 Audi A5? We’ve got you covered. We’ve taken pictures of a 2013 A5 to show you where the paint and trim codes are. Also shown is the cars emissions information, engine code and transmission code. Audi makes finding this information relatively easy on their cars once you know where to look for it.

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2013 Infiniti G37x Exterior Trim and Paint Code Location

Looking for the interior or exterior trim code for your 2013 Infiniti G37? Nissan / Infiniti make their trim and paint codes extremely easy to find. Below are pictures of the tag on a recently salvaged G37x coupe that we parted out. The paint and trim codes can be found on the driver’s door jam on a white tag. The paint code is under “Color” and the Trim code is under “Trim” on the white sticker. This sticker also provides other useful information that may be helpful such as the production date, transmission code, axle code, and engine code. On our car the transmission code is RE7R01A with an axle code of RC33 and the engine code VQ37(VHR).
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What Happened To The 4DSC?? – Nissan History

So this morning I was looking through my google reader via my iphone 4 while eating Cheerios. This has become my morning routine now for the last few months. I follow way to many RSS feeds. Far to many for me to actually read them all but his morning I happened to catch THIS review posted of the 2011 Nissan Maxima. It brought up something I haven’t really heard in a while. “The 4 Door Sports Car” or “4DSC”.  This was a marketing slogan used by Nissan in 1989 to describe it’s newly re designed family sedan and was recently brought back with the 2009 model.

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Pictures of used auto parts? We’ve got that!

Pictures Pictures Pictures! A picture says a thousand words right? Of course it does and in the ever changing world of buying, selling and communicating, pictures and video have started to play a vital role in our lives. Everything around us uses photography to convey a message, sell us a product or to accent our daily lives. Pictures play a really important role in the automotive industry for buying and selling parts. For over a hundred years, mechanics have used diagrams to fix cars while salesmen have used brochures to sell cars. Without photography in the Auto industry who knows where we’d be right now.
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Know Exactly When To Sell Your Car

Knowing exactly when to sell your car is will save you money and hassle, assuming you pull the trigger at the right time. Selling your car too early might cost you money on a new car that you didn’t need to spend and selling it too late may cause you to put money into the car that you didn’t want to spend. There are a number of philosophies out there on exactly when to do this and a few are listed below.
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Hey wheres the clutch?!

If you’re a car enthusiast then you’ve driven a manual transmission car at some point in your life. When you started driving in high school, the coolest cars were probably stick shift. There’s no replacement for the connected feeling you get from shifting your own gears. As you grow up though sometimes life gets in the way of what was once awesome. Wife / girlfriend (both?), kids, work, school etc. can all sway us away from what was once a very important part of our motoring life.
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