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Post by Rinconrolla on Jan 6, 2015 6:52:22 GMT -5
Your vehicle’s identification number (VIN) can reveal your vehicle’s model year, make, trim package, engine size, and transmission type. If decoding your VIN is something that interests you follow our easy steps below as an easy guide. For starters, you will need to find your Toyota’s VIN – it is a 17 digit number that can be found either on a sticker or a metal tag located on your dashboard, on a sticker inside the driver’s door jamb, or on a sticker under the hood. After finding the VIN, you are ready to begin: 1.The first three digits in the VIN correspond to the make, model, and manufacturer. 2.The fourth digit represents the safety features on the vehicle. 3.Digits five through eight represent the vehicle trim level or series, engine, and frequently transmission. 4.The 9th digit is a “check digit” designed to verify the authenticity of the VIN. 5.Digit ten represents the year that your model Toyota was introduced, while the 11th digit is used to determine which factory assembled the vehicle. 6.The last six digits are used by Toyota to identify your vehicle internally. If you would like to read the full article, please click on the link below: partsblog.olathetoyota.com/4585/how-to-decode-toyota-vin/#CardinaleWayToyota #CWToyota #ToyotaSouthLakeTahoe CardinaleWay Toyota 1855 Lake Tahoe Blvd. South Lake Tahoe, California 96150 Phone: 877.958.2431 Website: www.cardinalewaytoyota.com/?ibp-adgroup=SE_Target
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Post by Rinconrolla on Jan 6, 2015 18:02:13 GMT -5
The first three digits in the VIN correspond to the make, model, and manufacturer.
The fourth digit represents the safety features on the vehicle.
Digits five thru eight represent the vehicle trim level or series, engine, and frequently (but not always) transmission.
The ninth digit is a little like those magnetic strips in paper money: it’s a “check digit” designed to verify the authenticity of the VIN. It’s determined using a mathematical formula that involves the other numbers in the VIN.
Digit 10 represents the year that your particular model of Toyota was introduced, while the eleventh number is a way to determine which factory assembled your vehicle.
Finally, the last six digits numbers used by Toyota to identify the vehicle internally. While these digits are often assumed to indicate when a vehicle was produced (i.e. 000001 would be the first car produced, 000002 would be the second), this is not always the case.
For the 10th digit, these are the model years corresponding to the year of production: ◾A – 1980 OR 2010 ◾B – 1981 OR 2011 ◾C – 1982 OR 2012 ◾D – 1983 OR 2013 ◾E – 1984 OR 2014 ◾F – 1985 OR 2015 ◾G – 1986 ◾H – 1987
◾I – Doesn’t exist. You’re looking at the number one. ◾J – 1988 ◾K – 1989 ◾L – 1990 ◾M – 1991 ◾N – 1992
◾O – Doesn’t exist. Neither zero or the letter “O” are used as the 10th digit. ◾P – 1993
◾Q – Doesn’t exist. ◾R – 1994 ◾S – 1995 ◾T – 1996
◾U – Doesn’t exist as it’s too easy to confuse with the letter “V” ◾V – 1997 ◾W – 1998 ◾X – 1999 ◾Y – 2000 ◾1 – 2001 ◾2 – 2002 ◾3 – 2003 ◾4 – 2004 ◾5 – 2005 ◾6 – 2006 ◾7 – 2007 ◾8 – 2008 ◾9 – 2009
◾A – See beginning of list
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