Vin, Cal ID, BOX numbers

[Pat]

All of us know what a VIN # is and where it's usually located.
A few may know that there is a Cal ID, 7 digits, and what it signifies.
But does anyone know what a BOX number is?

My programmer at Diablosport had cause to ask me for my BOX number so he could program my Predator tuner. I said, in my best voice, extruding confidence, Huh?

He said it's located on the door jam on a white sticker and consists of three letters and one number. Mine is MAV2. This is also printed on my ECU.
What does it mean? I thought that it was the Cal ID#.

[SergntMac]

All of us know what a VIN # is and where it's usually located.
A few may know that there is a Cal ID, 7 digits, and what it signifies.
But does anyone know what a BOX number is?

My programmer at Diablosport had cause to ask me for my BOX number so he could program my Predator tuner. I said, in my best voice, extruding confidence, Huh?

He said it's located on the door jam on a white sticker and consists of three letters and one number. Mine is MAV2. This is also printed on my ECU.
What does it mean? I thought that it was the Cal ID#.
Never heard it called "cal ID#" before, I thought the term was "catch code". Doesn't matter, seems you have the right number, if you are driving an '04.

Driver's side door jamb, just above the top hinge. White sticker, black printing, just a tad smaller than a postage stamp. This is the "catch code" tuners need to know for correct tuning. Looks like you found it, and your next question would be...

[Pat]

OK Sarge, I'll bite, what's a "catch code"? If the company programmer is just now asking for it I wonder what was in the tuner, if anything, from the time I bought and used it till now? I feel so..... uninformed.

I read on another web site, modularfords.com, of a person complaining his tuner didn't do much for his car and the company's response was that they didn't have his particular code. Seems like they depended upon customers to inform them. Maybe my Predator tune will now put my car to the low 14's (W/O NO2).

Thanks for the info Sarge.

[ckadiddle]

My wild guess would be that the "catch code" is probably the software version of the ECU.

[SergntMac]

My wild guess would be that the "catch code" is probably the software version of the ECU.Yep. Mine was BMDO until I upgraded the EEC to an '04, now it MAV2. Think of these as software version numbers.

Pat...You are speaking about the MM's on board computer, not a hand held programmer, correct?

[blackf0rk]

Trilogy Motorsports needs this number too, when 'burning' your new chip for the kit. I believe they called it a "Computer Code". I'm guessing it just further identifies what kind of computer you have on board - probably several different types in the marauder.

[Pat]

Yep. Mine was BMDO until I upgraded the EEC to an '04, now it MAV2. Think of these as software version numbers.

Pat...You are speaking about the MM's on board computer, not a hand held programmer, correct?
Yes, the MAV2 is on the car's computer, not the hand held tuner. The code is used by the programmer in writing the files or whatever into the hand held computer, (I hope I stated this correctly).

[Pat]

Yep. Mine was BMDO until I upgraded the EEC to an '04, now it MAV2. Think of these as software version numbers.

Pat...You are speaking about the MM's on board computer, not a hand held programmer, correct?
Yes, the code MAV2 is on the car and it's ECU and not on the hand held tuner. The programmer person apparently needs this code in constructing the tuner program for my MM (and probably other 04's).