Hi Recently i have bought used two unit cat 320D machine. The serial numbers are CAT0320DEFAL10846 and CAT0320DEFAL10250.Can any one give me the details of those machine like manufacturing year. Where it’s manufactured etc.
FAL10250 2012 model, source family is Caterpillar Japan LLC. Built 04Dec2012 sold 19dec2013 Anytime you buy a machine not made in the US, it’s hard to get any info with sis. Probably need to get sis worldwide or help from someone in Japan.
Sir Can you give CAT0320DCKGF09424 machine information Also CAT0320DEFAL10846 build in and origin etc
All I can see is the first one was built in 10/10/2012 and the second was built in 7/16/2013. Doesn’t show location or anything else. Most likely built outside of the US
KGF09424 Built in Chennai, India. FAL10846 Built in Akashi, Japan.
I wouldn't exactly concur with that. In my experience only the specific group of machines from around the 1990's that were built in Japan for the Japanese-only market are the true grey market machines that have an information desert in SIS. Anything else generally has information available. These days Cat manufactures and ships all over the globe.
Gray market refers to machines that were manufactured to not be sold by new machine dealers in the North American markets. In addition to Caterpillar the manufacturers that did this include Hitachi, Komatsu, Kobelco and others. In my experience Cat machines were some of the later imports in the gray markets. All the Cat dozers below a D6 as I recall came from Japan and the only real difference is that Cat dealers usually would not look up parts for if it was "gray." If you found a comparable machine serial number for a North American model you had no problem with parts. The first grays that I had experience with were Hitachi excavators. Most of the gray excavators had some big differences between North American and World Wide machines. Cat excavators in particular had different cab enclosures and maybe some different option packages. Komatsu had different size boom cylinders on their excavators. I worked on Dash 5 excavators that had no electronics and others that had electronic hand controls and some ability to learn operational functions. All could have come with pattern control changer manifolds but many did not. I worked on Hitachi excavators that had air conditioning systems and no heaters. So much of what is sold today is only here as a result of the gray market. Hand control pattern changers, zero tail swing excavators, depth control, swing booms and rubber band tracks were all proven in the market by machines brought to North America outside of the franchise dealers.