Kardex, COA and a 3rd type

[davep]

Very interesting Hugh. I would guess that these detail pages vary according to the year of manufacture. The transmission sheet appears to have the gear serial numbers, so they went into some detail where it was available.
I have collected several hundred COA`s and the details on them vary a lot. In the UK PCGB seems to provide additional detail such as selling dealer or distributor even for US delivery; I have not seen PCNA provide this. It almost appears that different national distributors work from different data sets.

[HughH]

yes I noticed that on the gearbox papers - there is an equivalent one for engines as well but I cant edit it enough to post a meaningful one without putting too much information out there
Relying on that would take "matching numbers" to a whole new level

[tomster]

My COA has the engine and transaxle numbers.

As Dave stated above. COAs seem to vary from country to country.
Porsche Germany will only state engine and trans #'s on the COA if you have filled them in correctly on the application form first. If you put a wrong number or none on the form the COA's fields will be left blank.
I did get information on the selling dealer's location though as my car was US delivery. I also contacted PCNA by email but they won't ship COAs outside US/CAN. The lady replying was kind enough though to tell me that the original trans # was a 1100'ish off the one currently installed. So now I know it must be somewhere + 7105995.
But even if I did get the correct # I assume it is rather impossible to actually track it down as I think it was replaced due to technical failure. Broken trans's would most likely not be stashed in someone's mezzanine...

[pu911rsr]

I've been in contact with PCGB and they say everyone uses same database to assemble COA's. I had a COA from PCGB I don't recall it having dealer information on it for GB delivered car.
Phil