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Vehicle ID number

Vehicle ID number

It is a cord of the one idea including the serial number that I use to distinguish individual vehicles in car industry, and the vehicle ID number (and Vehicle Identification Number is common and abbreviates it VIN) is defined by International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 3833.

It was a beginning that an American car manufacturer adopted VIN in 1954, but, as for this number, each manufacturer used an original style before 1981 without giving it off with a standard. VIN except I (eye), O (O), Q (cue) is comprised of 17 columns of alphanumeric characters (do not confuse it with 1 (いち) of the number and 0 (zero)).

Because I use the "model - number" number of cars number that Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport establishes written on the cover, in the case of a vehicle for Japanese country that a Japanese maker manufactures and sells, VIN is not adopted. But it is not this limit about a vehicle for overseas export and the car to manufacture in a plant abroad.

The person who is going to purchase a used car is in the country which inquires, and gives a service of the vehicle history so that a theft calendar and an accident calendar (branded vehicle), a defective car (lemon) are ascertained using VIN. The list of countries which this kind of service is available to refers to an article of "en:used car".

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Constitution of VIN

The recent vehicle ID number system is based on two kinds of associated standard norms, ISO 3779 and ISO 3780 which originally International Organization for Standardization (ISO) published in 1979 and 1980 each. It is adopted by different method of implementation somewhat in European Union (EU) and the United States of America while having these ISO standard norms and compatibility. [1]

VIN is constructed by the following division:

Standard norm 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
ISO 3779 International manufacturer identifier VDS VIS
European Union
& North America

More than 500 yearly output


International manufacturer identifier Vehicle attribute Check digit Age type Factory sign Consecutive number
European Union
& North America

Less than 500 yearly output


International manufacturer identifier Vehicle attribute Check digit Age type Factory sign International manufacturer identifier Consecutive number

International manufacturer identifier

Three columns of the beginning distinguish a manufacturer of the one idea using international manufacturer identifier (World Manufacturer Identifier) or WMI sign. The manufacturer less than 500 yearly output uses 9 for 12, 13, the 14th figure of the international manufacturer identification part of the third column and the second of VIN. There is the place where I use the third column letter for the division in a sign and the manufacturer or both vehicle division (e.g.,: a bus, a truck) in the manufacturer. For example, in 1G (assigned to General Motors Corp. of the United States of America), in 1G1, in 1G2, 1GC expresses a truck of Chevrolet by car of Pontiac by car of Chevrolet.

SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) of the United States of America assigns WMI to each country and manufacturer. [2]

The first letter of WMI expresses the area where a manufacturer is located, but because I can assign the location of the head office in the European area, all Opel Vauxhall cars which, for example, are made in Germany, the U.K., Spain, each factory of Poland use VIN beginning in WOL, and this is because there is the head office in Germany. In addition, I adopt VIN which Peugeot .4007 to be made in Renault ラティテュード and Japan made in Korea begins in V.F. same as a product made in own country France.

A production country can distinguish the vehicle to manufacture in a plant abroad of the Japanese maker to have the sign of each country if I see two columns of the beginning of VIN.


Name of a country sign

In the following notation, the letter says that 0 is the last number prior to a number. For example, 8X-82 expresses 8X, 8Y, 8Z, 81, 82. I am careful about what 80 is not included in here.

A–H = Africa J–R = Asia S–Z = Europe 1–5 = North America 6–7 = Oceania 8–9 = South America

AA-AH South Africa
AJ-AN Ivory Coast
There is no AP-A0 application
BA-BE Angola
BF-BK Kenya
BL-BR Tanzania
There is no BS-B0 application
CA-CE Benin
CF-CK Madagascar
CL-CR Tunisia
There is no CS-C0 application
DA-DE Egypt
DF-DK Morocco
DL-DR Zambia
There is no DS-D0 application
EA-EE Ethiopia
EF-EK Mozambique
There is no EL-E0 application
FA-FE Ghana
FF-FK Nigeria
There is no FL-F0 application
There is no GA-G0 application
There is no HA-H0 application






















JA-JT Japan
KA-KE Sri Lanka
KF-KK Israel
The KL-KR Republic of Korea
There is no KS-K0 application
LA-L0 China
MA-ME India
MF-MK Indonesia
ML-MR Thailand
There is no MS-M0 application
NF-NK Pakistan
NL-NR Turkey
There is no NS-N0 application
The PA-PE Philippines
PF-PK Singapore
PL-PR Malaysia
There is no PS-P0 application
RA-RE Arab emirate
RF-RK Taiwan
RL-RR Vietnam
There is no RS-R0 application




















The SA-SM U.K.
SN-ST Germany
SU-SZ Poland
There is no S1-S0 application
TA-TH Switzerland
TJ-TP Czech
TR-TV Hungary
TW-T1 Portugal
There is no T2-T0 application
There is no UA-UG application
UH-UM Denmark
UN-UT Ireland
UU-UZ Romania
There is no U1-U4 application
U5-U7 Slovakia
There is no U8-U0 application
VA-VE Austria
VF-VR France
VS-VW Spain
VX-V2 Yugoslavia
V3-V5 Croatia
V6-V0 Estonia
WA-W0 Germany
XA-XE Bulgaria
XF-XK Greece
The XL-XR Netherlands
XS-XW Russia
XX-X2 Luxembourg
X3-X0 Russia
YA-YE Belgium
YF-YK Finland
YL-YR Malta
YS-YW Sweden
YX-Y2 Norway
Y3-Y5 Belarus
Y6-Y0 Ukraine
ZA-ZR Italy
There is no ZS-ZW application
ZX-Z2 Slovenia
Z3-Z5 Lithuania
There is no Z6-Z0 application








































The 1A-10 United States
2A-20 Canada
3A - 3W Mexico
3X-37 Costa Rica
The 38-30 Cayman Islands
The 4A-40 United States
The 5A-50 United States






6A - 6W Australia
There is no 6X-60 application
7A-7E New Zealand
There is no 7F-70 application



8A-8E Argentina
8F-8K Chile
8L-8R Ecuador
8S-8W Peru
8X-82 Venezuela
There is no 83-80 application
9A-9E Brazil
9F-9K Colombia
9L-9R Paraguay
9S-9W Uruguay
9X-92 Trinidad and Tobago
93-99 Brazil
There are no 90 applications












Vehicle description division

The ninth column is vehicle description division (Vehicle Descriptor Section) or VDS from the fourth column of VIN. This identifies the model of the vehicle according to an individual rule and may include the used platform, model and information of the body form. Each manufacturer uses this division in an original method. Since the 1980s, most manufacturers use the eighth column for identifying the engine model when I can put plural engines on one car model. For example, I express U= 6.0L V8, E= 7.0L V8 in Chevrolet Corbett of 2007.

Check digit in North America

One of the coherent element is the ninth column used as check digit appropriately. It is essential to a North American vehicle, and this rule is used appropriately even any place other than North America throughout.

Vehicle identifier division

The 17th column is used from the tenth column of VIN as vehicle identifier division (Vehicle Identifier Section) or VIS. This is used to identify the vehicle concerned by a manufacturer. I may include the information of an option article attached to this, an engine model and the transmission model, but am usually a simple consecutive number. Actually, five columns of the last must be numbers in the North America.

Age-style encoding

It is the tenth column, and one of the coherent elements of VIS is necessary to encode an age type of the vehicle in the North America. U, Z of the letter and 0 of the number are not used in the mark other than three characters (I, O, Q) that are not permitted in VIN in itself in the year. I am careful about being an age type of the vehicle in the year.

They were encoded with "A" (because 17 columns of VIN was not performed imposition of until 1981, the manufacturer was able to use "A" or zero in VIN in before 1981) in some manufacturers particularly General Motors Corp. and Chrysler Corp. in 1980, but Ford Motor Co. and AMC used zero in business in 1980. The later letters which I can use increase, and "Y" will express 2000. I am expressed after it with 9 from 1 of the number in "A", "B", "C" in 2009 from 2001.

Mark The year Mark The year Mark The year Mark The year
A = 1980 L = 1990 Y = 2000 A = 2010
B = 1981 M = 1991 1 = 2001 B = 2011
C = 1982 N = 1992 2 = 2002 C = 2012
D = 1983 P = 1993 3 = 2003 D = 2013
E = 1984 R = 1994 4 = 2004 E = 2014
F = 1985 S = 1995 5 = 2005 F = 2015
G = 1986 T= 1996 6 = 2006 G = 2016
H = 1987 V = 1997 7 = 2007 H = 2017
J = 1988 W = 1998 8 = 2008 J = 2018
K = 1989 X = 1999 9 = 2009 K = 2019

Factory sign in North America

Another coherent factor (essential in North America) is to use the thing which encoded the manufacturing facility of the vehicle for the eleventh column letter. Each manufacturer each has an original factory sign, but these are standardized in VIN.

Check digit numeration

When I inspect VIN using check digit, I invalidate whether you exclude check digit for a calculation first (a) (b) by 0 multiplication (multiplicative property of zero) of the weighting level. Thereafter, I compare the value of the calculation result with the original value of the check digit. Two values must accord (when a calculation does not have an error), and there is an error in VIN. However, it is not proved that VIN is right as for agreeing. This is because the check digit that one of 11 times accords in any two different VIN may exist.

Substituted to a number

The substitution removes all the letters and performs it by replacing those letters with a suitable number corresponding to each. I nominate a number to substitute by a letter for the face below. The use of I, O and Q is not permitted and is not used for effective VIN. These letters assume it N/A (there is no application) on using this table. The number uses the same value.

A substituted key: Value for VIN decoding
A: 1 B: 2 C: 3 D: 4 E: 5 F: 6 G: 7 H: 8 I: N/A
J: 1 K: 2 L: 3 M: 4 N: 5 O: N/A P: 7 Q: N/A R: 9
S: 2 T: 3 U: 4 V: 5 W: 6 X: 7 Y: 8 Z: 9

It is 2, and there is not S with 1. I do not make left filling in a line.

Weighting level to use by a calculation

The weighting levels for each figure in VIN are as follows. I invalidate the ninth column check digit to 0 at a stage of the substitution multiplication.

Figure 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Weighting level 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 10 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2

Calculation example

VIN of the supposition: I try to think about 1M8GDM9A_KP042788. The underline part is check digit.

VIN 1 M 8 G D M 9 A 0 K P 0 4 2 7 8 8
Value 1 4 8 7 4 4 9 1 0 2 7 0 4 2 7 8 8
Weighting level 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 10 0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
Product 8 28 48 35 16 12 18 10 0 18 56 0 24 10 28 24 16
  1. The value of VIN substitutes it from the top of upper substituted key. I use this number by a later calculation.
  2. I bring a weighting level from an upper table.
  3. As a result that the line of the product multiplied a value and the weighting level of the upper equivalence line by.
  4. It becomes value 351 in total when I add all a product (8,28,48,35..24,16).
  5. I do one of the next calculation:
    • 351 MOD 11 = 10
      • 351/11 = 31 10/11
    • 351/11 = 31.9090 - (Requires a lookup table)
  6. A rest becomes the check digit. In the case of 10, a rest suffers from the check digit in X. The check digit is replaced with this exercise too much with X because it is 10.

When apply 'X' of the check digit; VIN: 1M8GDM9A_KP042788: I am written with 1M8GDM9AXKP042788.

1 row (all 17 columns '1') is effective for the check digit. The value that multiplied 89 (addition level of the weighting level) by 1 is 89, and the surplus check digit when I divided 89 by 11 is because it is 1. This is a simple method to test algorithm to inspect VIN.

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