New codes on Weber charcoal grills

[Chris Allingham]

I was trying to find a manual on www.weber.com and clicked the link Find the location of your serial number. It says something very interesting:

Charcoal grills use serial codes containing 1 or 2 letters, rather than complete serial numbers.

Beginning 10/1/2012, all charcoal models have another code prefix followed by numbers printed on the damper and the outer carton barcode. This is NOT the code to use when registering the grill. NOTE: Gas Go-anywhere models do not have a damper, but this code is stamped into the burner tube. It can help identify the year.

Sounds like maybe a real serial number on charcoal grills?

 

[George Curtis]

i've always wondered about the gas ga. will be interesting to see the new coding in print.

 

[Chris Allingham]

Here are some photos of the new vent damper coding. It's clearly a serial number. The first two photos are from the same Weber 22.5" OTG. The third and fourth photos are from two different 22.5" OTGs and as you can see, each of the three grills has a unique code.

All retain the traditional AT date code for 2013 model year.

 

[George Curtis]

i guess they want to keep a better track of things. better not mess up that vent !

 

[Bob Ivey]

Had to call Weber after I got my WSM 2 months ago and they wanted that number to register it. The rep stated that it was the serial number.

 

[timothy]

That's good for security reasons.

Tim

 

[George Curtis]

not really blaming them but i guess they decided that there was to much "warranty" going on. they accused me of cheating them so i don't realy care much about them anymore anyway.