Needing to confirm year of a 150 2-stroke

[hoppy269]

Reading through the forum I ran across a thread concerning the last digit of the model pertaining to the year of the motor. According to that thread I would have a 2000 year motor instead of a 1996. Can anyone verify the year from the following information. Model C150TLRY Serial 6G4L-302893

[rodbolt17]

will indeed be a 2000 model.

[hoppy269]

I look at the online parts manual and the top cowling of the motor matches the 1996 150 engines not the 2000 year engines.

[99yam40]

maybe some one has swapped parts from other motors
look at bottom of this page , it shows meaning of model #s
Yamaha Outboard Parts

[hoppy269]

Well it appears I better double check the numbers on the motor then since what I put iin the post came off of the purchase papers. I guess they could have wrote it down wrong and that means it was registered wrong, great.

[hoppy269]

Well checked the numbers on the motor and the dealer wrote the numbers down wrong on the papers it should be C150TLRU.

[seahorse5]

The letter " U " designates a 1996 motor. What year motor was this represented to be on the paperwork you have?

[hoppy269]

Represent and on the paperwork as a 1996 but the model that was written was the TLRY but the motor label has TLRU appears it was written down wrong. I looked at the regirtration and the serial number is what is on the registration, good thing.