Hull identification numbers HIN

MRCLEIT

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MERCRUISER 260
Hello everyone, I am a mercury/mercruiser mechanic and I have been restoring an older sea ray and I am having a difficult time identifying what model it is and what year. The HIN is SER4A2291083-245SDA741-4. The 1's look more like vertical lines than 1's but I'm not sure of it. From research it seems to me that it is a 245 sundancer but I looked on NADA and it doesn't have an option with a Mercruiser 260 in it. So i feel stuck! Can anybody help me please?
 
NADA does not list my year boat and model either so don't feel badly, and funny enough I actually had to add it to WIKIpedia
 
It looks like the one on page 16 the SRV 260 Express Cruiser. So the 083 is the year? So can you derive a model number out of that?
 
That is a good hull ID if you use the first 12 digits SER 4A229 1083

Depending on the year, those numbers can mean a few slightly different things. However, all HIN's follow the same basic format. The first 3 characters are what is referred to as the Manufacturers Index Code (Or
MIC
) which have been uniquely assigned to all boat manufacturers. The following 5 characters are used by each manufacturer as a serial number. Sometimes they contain pertinant information for that particular boat and other times they are used just keep track of the number of boats they produce. This part is not regulated by the government with the expection of the exclusion of the letters I, O and Q and they can too often be confused with numbers. The last 4 characters signify when the boat was certified and built. Character 9 is typically a letter which corresponds to the month of certification ( A- January, B- February, C- March, D- April, E- May, F- June, G- July, H- August, I- September, J- October, K- November, L- December) and character 10 refers to the last digit of the year of certification. Characters 11 and 12 signify the model year of the boat.
 
looking at sea ray 1982 express
but not sure what the series is #
SERF
33811281
310EC
565
82
need help before i buy C46D9D82-D5DD-4586-AA1D-39BC06D4B707.png
 
This is the HIN SER4A2291083 (it's an 83 model year)
This is additional info added by Sea Ray and is not part of the HIN, 245SDA741-4.
Sea Rays normal practice was that the 245 is the model. What the rest means, you'd have to ask Sea Ray.
ANd, those are 1's not Ls. If they were Ls they would be a capitol L.
 
This is the HIN SER4A2291083 (it's an 83 model year)
This is additional info added by Sea Ray and is not part of the HIN, 245SDA741-4.
Sea Rays normal practice was that the 245 is the model. What the rest means, you'd have to ask Sea Ray.
ANd, those are 1's not Ls. If they were Ls they would be a capitol L.
This is an old post. Believe he is asking about an 82 (81 hull) 310 express cruiser maybe?
 
OOPs. Forgot to look at the date. Thanks.
 

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