How rare is a GA4 paint code demon?

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luis9995 said:
I just checked the car there is a heater box which is odd the fender tag said heater delete H25
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Shoot I feel stupid the fender tag is hard to read on some parts because of surface rust. Cleaned it better and it looks to be m25. Haha
 
Due to paint / rust etc. some tags can be hard to read.

M25 maybe? The car in the ad does show sill moldings - M25

M & H are often confused on tags, so that may be it.
 
Typing at the same time.

One mystery solved, millions more to go......... ;-)
 
Tags in the coding are alpha numeric, so having an H after the M21 isn't possible or a real screw up by the person doing the tag.
 
Ongoing problem with online decoders. They do not recognize possible errors.

There are other reasons they suck too, so they will never replace educated humans.
 
Alaskan_TA said:
Ongoing problem with online decoders. They do not recognize possible errors.

There are other reasons they suck too, so they will never replace educated humans.
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The problem with the online decoders is that the couple that are out there are pretty simple. Basically they’re just comparing the input to a fixed list of codes they were programmed with.

It wouldn’t be all that difficult to put additional rules into a decoder like that, you could check for alpha numeric order with a single line of code and have the decoder kick it out with an error message. You could input additional code to check the year and model of the car against the body codes, since different years and models used the same code for different options. So you could have a list of options for each body code that would be checked against the input to give the right answer.

It’s not the computers fault, it’s just a really simple decoder. If someone more Mopar savvy wrote a decoder it could work a lot better. The rules the “educated humans” are using aren’t that complicated, they’re just not programmed into the current decoders. Which haven’t changed in a decade or more.
 
The online decoder issue goes deeper than that.

Fairly new site, educated builder.

A guy was shocked to find out that the fender tag he entered was fake because that side decoded it just fine.

No errors on the input data or the decode itself.

Computer programs can not spot fakes in these situations.
 
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