If you actually have this model, then the bezel should fit. Or someone switched the bezel out.

I don't remember when, but at some point the doors were altered - earlier doors only fit the COMPACT bezels. The door came with a couple white spacers that were required on the standoff bolts to hold the validator in securely. Later doors let a standard bezel/full faceplate fit.

(The upper hole, for downstackers, came with a spacer kit that was sold my WMS that made the validator sit back from the door so the smallest part of the bezel mounted flush.)

I WANT to say that the full faceplate doors are a more recent offering (late '00s? '10s?), so you may just need the standoff kit.

Take a pic of your bezel and post it.

For reference, I got a pics of the two types. This is the earlier one, the door/mounting type that was shipping in the '90s:
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This is the later door, where the whole Bezel fits:
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In my experience unless you have an old VFM validator, you have to notch the door like that. It's not hard at all. Just a steady hand with a dremel and it takes less than 5 minutes. I actually have a beat up door that I will swap onto a game to install the validator if I don't want to cut that notch.

I have two methods for the AE2400 series I use depending upon how quick the boss wants it done.

Method 1: Use a nibbler to carve away an eighth of an inch along the top edge of the bottom hole. I suppose a Dremel with cutoff wheel could also be used.

Method 2: Use a Dremel "drum sander" to grind away the tapered part of the bill acceptor "snout" it fits in the existing hole. The drawback is you need an air compressor and blow gun attachment (or a can of air) to get rid of all of the black plastic "dust" the sanding creates. It gets all over the sensors and belts inside the bill acceptor.

One other method I saved for last because it involves rewiring: install a brand new Happ Controls coin/bill door. It has the full sized hole so any bill acceptor can be used.

Something else to consider: the Pyramid/Apex 5400 series and 7400 series fit the door perfectly without any modifications to the existing door or to the bill acceptor. Just be sure to purchase the 120 volt AC power version with the 9 pin Mars connector on it. They also make a 12 volt DC version.

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At the time these machines were made, the Mars VFM series and Ardac (a.k.a. Dixie-Narco) were very popular and fit these doors without any modifications.

Yup!

There ARE two bezel for the Mars validators that is the same as the VFM - the officlal MARS/MEI named are "VFM Upstacker" and "VFM High Visibility". (The number in the model representing this is the 5th character - AE24000. It would be a "0" for the 'VFM Upstacker', or a 'C' for the high-visibility.)

Sadly, I do not have the part numbers recorded for JUST the bezels, though, sorry.

(And yes, for the record, the coin door I have pictured in my TZ is a replacement from around 1996 days.)