Vent codes

[JayCee]

I'm sure I'm not the first to notice this but for those that haven't if you take the second letter of the vent code from 2001 to 2009 it spells the word authorize. Has anyone else spotted this?

[coldkettle]

Hmmmm....interesting

[1buckie]

I'm sure I'm not the first to notice this but for those that haven't if you take the second letter of the vent code from say 2000 to 2009 it spells the word authorize. Has anyone else spotted this?

Not to pop your bubble, but that got figgered out a long ways back.......good to know that people are paying that much attention to their kettles, though !!!

[MartyG]

You forgot 2010 to make it AUTHORIZED. It's repeating again starting in 2011 - we're up to AUTH as of 2014. Go back to 1994 and you'll see they started with H for some reason, but finished the same word anyway. I might have forgotten what the E,H and A were a reference to , but this has come up before as 1buckie said. @Craig will know.

And for all the newbies here, a poster that shows every vent variant in chronological order from 1952 through 2014. 

[1buckie]

Here's a couple fro the wayback machine......

http://weberkettleclub.com/forums/kettle-club-discussions/at-gt-2013/msg12312/#msg12312

http://weberkettleclub.com/forums/weber-kettles-accessories/vent-code-update/msg43516/#msg43516

[LightningBoldtz]

I have a prediction, the 2015 models will have a code of AO...........

[Craig]

2045 will be a HO year