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Here are some pictures, but the quality may not be good.

For a born with engine, shouldn't the engine assembly code on the Protect-o-Plate match the engine pad stamp?  My car was resold early and I only have the warranty POP, which does not provide much information; however, I have some early receipts that have the POP imprint.  The POP imprint shows the engine code to be T0605DZ, but the engine pad shows V0605DZ.  I think it's the born with engine further supported when I found the date to match and the DZ code.  I didn't question the T at the time, but recently was reading that DZ engines were not assembled at Tonawanda.  I have also read about typos on POPs. so that is my current assumption because I am guessing that the POPs were manually created and subject to mistakes.  Any other known examples of this kind of discrepancy in the POP engine code or other explanations for what may have caused the discrepancy?

I appreciate another opinion that I am not the only one seeing a B 3 and only because that's what I want to see.  I am going to leave it alone, that's good enough for me.  Thanks for the responses.

I pulled my rear seat to check the codes and found that they did not skimp on the adhesive.  It appears to me that more adhesive was added sometime later than when the car was built because of the differences in the material, application, and layering.  Is all that adhesive original?  Based on this discussion, I believe the code should be B 3, for blue interior in an X33.  I can kind of make that out, but probably not if I didn't have that expectation.  I doubt I can remove the adhesive without damaging the code, so I am inclined to leave it alone unless it can be removed without inflicting damage.  Any ideas on how to remove the adhesive without damaging the codes?