Find Your Car's Date of Manufacture (VIN)

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Find your car's date of manufacture

(VIN)

How do you know that your dealer isn't selling you a 6 month old car, under the

guise of a new one? Or worse still, a car that's over a year old?

Knowing when your car was manufactured is critical; after all, when you have paid

good money for a brand new car, shouldn't you be getting just that? Automotive

manufactures around the world use a Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) that can

be decoded to reveal the Month & Year of production. Each car has a unique VIN

that is usually stamped somewhere within the engine bay, or around the passenger

compartment.

Team-BHP shows you how to decode the VIN of your car. Simply scroll down to the

manufacturer-specific posts and follow the instructions therein.

NOTE : An excel sheet containing the location of engine / chassis numbers (on

various vehicles) can be found here.

Refer to the chart below to directly jump to the respective manufacturer's VIN

decoding instructions:



Page No. Manufacturer

2 Tata Motors

3 Chevrolet

4 Honda

5 Mahindra

6 Mitsubishi

7 Hyundai

8 Fiat

9 Skoda

10 Volkswagen

11 Toyota

12 Maruti Suzuki

13 Ford

Manufacturer: Tata Motors

VIN Characters: 17 (beginning with MAT...)

Decode:

An Example:

Month Codes:

10th character represents the YEAR of Manufacture

12th character represents the MONTH of Manufacture

If your 10th VIN character is A, then it represents the Year - 2010

If your 12th VIN character is G, then it represents the Month - July

A = JAN

B = FEB

C = MAR

D = APR

E = MAY

F = JUN

G = JUL

H = AUG

J = SEP



Year Codes:

P.S. The letters "I", "O" and "Q" are never used in a VIN.

Manufacturer: Chevrolet

VIN Characters: 17 (beginning with MA6...)

Decode:

An Example:

Month Codes:

K = OCT

L = NOV

M = DEC

A = 2010

B = 2011

C = 2012

D = 2013

E = 2014

F = 2015

G = 2016

H = 2017

J = 2018

K = 2019





A = JAN

B = FEB

C = MAR

D = APR



Year Codes:

NOTE:

Its been confirmed that effective from February 2011, there is a change in the Month

code position of Chevrolet VIN.

For e.g if your 7th Character is G then its July.

Additionally, you can find a separate placard near the front left door, right bottom

(near seat) that has 2 characters representing MONTH and YEAR. For e.g GB = July

2011.

Full credit goes to fellow members Torquedo, keyur and Poitive for the findings.

Manufacturer: Honda

E = MAY

F = JUN

G = JUL

H = AUG

J = SEP

K = OCT

L = NOV

M = DEC

A = 2010

B = 2011

C = 2012

D = 2013

E = 2014

F = 2015

G = 2016

H = 2017

J = 2018

K = 2019

7th Character now represents Month

10th Character is Year.



VIN Characters: 17 (beginning with MAK...)

Decode:

An Example:

Month Codes:

Year Codes:





A = JAN

B = FEB

C = MAR

D = APR

E = MAY

F = JUN

G = JUL

H = AUG

J = SEP

K = OCT

L = NOV

M = DEC

A = 2010

B = 2011

C = 2012

D = 2013

E = 2014

F = 2015

G = 2016

H = 2017



Manufacturer: Mahindra

VIN Characters: 17 (beginning with MAI...)

Decode:

An Example:

Month Codes:

Year Codes:

J = 2018

K = 2019





A = JAN

B = FEB

C = MAR

D = APR

E = MAY

F = JUN

G = JUL

H = AUG

J = SEP

K = OCT

L = NOV

M = DEC

A = 2010

B = 2011

C = 2012

D = 2013



NOTE:

Here's some more info from SPIKE ARRESTOR. Thanks!

The VIN code for mahindra vehicles consists of 17 digits, which is divided mainly

into 3 sections.

Manufacturer: Mitsubishi

VIN Characters: 17 (beginning with MA7...)

Decode:

1. first section containing 3 digits which give details of Manufacturer code.

2. second section containing 6 digits which give details of general characteristics of

the vehicle

3. third section containing 8 digits which give details of particular vehicle

identification. Now the details of all the 17 digits

E = 2014

F = 2015

G = 2016

H = 2017

J = 2018

K = 2019

Digit 1- Continent code ( M means Asia)

Digit 2- Country code (A means India)

Digit 3- Manufacturers code for MnM (1 means Mahindra)

Digit 4,5-Vehicle code for RHD,LHD

Digit 6- 4WD or 2WD (4 means 4WD and 2 means 2WD)

Digit 7,8- Engine code (Different codes for MDI and NEF)

Digit9- Transmission code (N for NGT 530R and L for NGT530)

Digit 10- Year code (2 for 2001, 3 for 2002 and so on)

Digit 11- Plant location (1 for Kandivali, 2 for Nasik, 3 for Zaheerabad)

Digit 12- Month code (A for January, B for Feb and so on)

Digit 13-17- Vehicle Serial No.





An Example:

Month Codes:

Year Codes:

Manufacturer: Hyundai

VIN Characters: 19 (beginning with MAL...)



A = JAN

B = FEB

C = MAR

D = APR

E = MAY

F = JUN

G = JUL

H = AUG

J = SEP

K = OCT

L = NOV

M = DEC

A = 2010

B = 2011

C = 2012

D = 2013

E = 2014

F = 2015

G = 2016

H = 2017

J = 2018

K = 2019



Decode:

An Example:

Month Codes:

Year Codes:





A = JAN

B = FEB

C = MAR

D = APR

E = MAY

F = JUN

G = JUL

H = AUG

J = SEP

K = OCT

L = NOV

M = DEC

A = 2010

B = 2011

C = 2012

D = 2013

E = 2014

F = 2015

G = 2016

H = 2017

J = 2018

K = 2019



Manufacturer: Fiat

VIN Characters: 20 (beginning with MCA...)

Decode:

An Example:

Month Codes:

Year Codes:

Manufacturer: Skoda

VIN Characters: 17 (beginning with TMB...)


19th & 20th character represents the YEAR of Manufacture


If your 19th & 20th VIN character is NZ, then it represents the Year - 2010

A = JAN

B = FEB

C = MAR

D = APR

E = MAY

F = JUN

G = JUL

H = AUG

J = SEP

K = OCT

L = NOV

M = DEC

LZ= 2012

MZ = 2011

NZ = 2010

QZ & PZ = 2009



Decode:

An Example:

Month Codes:

Year Codes:





A = JAN

B = FEB

C = MAR

D = APR

E = MAY

F = JUN

G = JUL

H = AUG

J = SEP

K = OCT

L = NOV

M = DEC

A = 2010

B = 2011

C = 2012

D = 2013

E = 2014

F = 2015

G = 2016

H = 2017

J = 2018

K = 2019



Manufacturer: Volkswagen

VIN Characters: 17 (beginning with WVW...)

Decode:

An Example:

Month Codes:

Year Codes:




If your 10th VIN character is B, then it represents the Year - 2011

A = JAN

B = FEB

C = MAR

D = APR

E = MAY

F = JUN

G = JUL

H = AUG

J = SEP

K = OCT

L = NOV

M = DEC

A = 2010

B = 2011

C = 2012

D = 2013

E = 2014

F = 2015

G = 2016



Manufacturer: Toyota

VIN Characters: 22 (beginning with MBJ...)

Decode:

An Example:

Manufacturer: Maruti

VIN Characters: 21 (beginning mostly with MA3...)

Decode:

An Example:

Month Codes:

H = 2017

J = 2018

K = 2019

19th & 20th character represents the MONTH of Manufacture

21st & 22nd character represents the YEAR of Manufacture

If your 19th & 20th VIN characters are 0 & 5, then it represents the Month - May

If your 21st & 22nd VIN characters are 0 & 8, then it represents the Year - 2008



If your 20th VIN character is L, then it represents the Month - November

If your 10th VIN character is 6, then it represents the Year - 2006



Year Codes:

Manufacturer: Ford

VIN Characters: 17 (beginning mostly with MAJ...)

Ford India uses a pattern which repeats every 4 years. That means the 2005-2008

pattern repeats for 2009-2012 (and so on).

A = JAN

B = FEB

C = MAR

D = APR

E = MAY

F = JUN

G = JUL

H = AUG

J = SEP

K = OCT

L = NOV

M = DEC

B=2011

A=2010

9=2009

8=2008

7=2007

6=2006

5=2005



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Decode: (Use the chart below for reference)

An Example:



If your 11th VIN character is 7, then it represents the Year - 2007

If your 12th VIN character is K, then it represents the Month - February

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