With all due respect, then it’s possible that a 06A car could have a 027-9 valve?
Possible?? Yes. Very unlikely.
Looks like we may have stumbled onto something out of the ordinary in terms of conventional date coding / car build on this particular part.
The dating is typical and predictable.
I have 120+ datapoints. Looks like the incoming batches were large (small part, easy to store), so the usage stretched over longer time periods.