Scope before value · evidence before confidence
How JeepFacts handles evidence.
The archive preserves uncertainty instead of manufacturing one clean story from incompatible sources.
Scope
JeepFacts covers the Jeep-branded marque and its foundational antecedents. It is United States-first, then labels foreign production, assembly, markets, military theaters, and licensed descendants explicitly. Chassis codes and model years coexist because neither axis explains every family.
Evidence states
Settled claims have sufficient consistent support for their stated scope. Disputed claims preserve incompatible positions. Provisional claims have meaningful but incomplete support. Unsupported leads remain attributed; unknown and not-applicable are not zero.
Sources
Primary documents lead when available. Specialist archives and forums can preserve serial registries and first-hand recollection that factories did not. Repetition is traced back to its underlying account so copied claims are not mistaken for independent confirmation.
Images
Only individually reviewed public-domain, CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA, or permission-granted images ship. Creator, source, license, attribution, and privacy edits remain attached. Candidate reference copies never enter the public build.
Identification and privacy
The VIN & serial reader runs entirely in your browser: what you type is never uploaded, looked up, or logged, and the site content-security-policy blocks any external call. Its output is labelled decoded — a rule-based reading, never an authenticity certificate. No OCR, upload, garage, or photo-identification feature ships in this release.
Independence
JeepFacts is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by FCA US LLC or Stellantis. It uses vehicle and manufacturer names descriptively, displays no manufacturer logo, and does not imitate a factory certificate or service document.