Re: How do I tell if truck is #s matching
It's not "dot matrix" or "laser dots" - it's called dot peen.
Many 93's have this number applied with "laser dots"......There may be laser dots in 92, and there may be stampings in 93......
Note that the direct quote from my post contains the words "laser dots" in
scare quotes.
From the wiki link:
Scare quotes or shudder quotes are quotation marks placed around a word or phrase to imply that it may not signify its apparent meaning or that it is not necessarily the way the quoting person would express its concept. The quotes serve a function similar to verbally prefixing a phrase with "so-called". When referred to as "scare quotes", the quotation marks are suggested to imply skepticism of or disagreement with the quoted terminology.
If scare quotes are enclosing a word or phrase that does not represent a quotation from another source they may simply serve to alert the reader that the word or phrase is used in an unusual, special, or non-standard way or should be understood to include caveats to the conventional meaning.
I'm the only guy on here that uses scare quotes. And I use them frequently around descriptions or phrases where the meaning is not precise, but the words I choose do a good job of describing what I'm trying to convey. Like in this case, people that have seen these dots even once, know what I was referring to. And for peeps that haven't seen them before, when they do, they'll recognize the description.
But thanks for the clarification and correction for the accurate definition of pin dots. Hope you enjoyed the schooling in the correct use of scare quotes. :tup: