Keen to find out the manufacturing year and month of a Tata vehicle? How do I go about it? Whom should I ask? If these questions bother you, you have reached the correct place. Every car or SUV sold in India comes with a VIN or Vehicle Identification Number. This VIN is easily accessible and by decoding it correctly you can find out the month and year in which a Tata vehicle was manufactured.
How To Read VIN Number Of Tata Vehicles?
Usually, the VIN is a unique sequence of numbers and characters which could go up to 22 units. The number of characters will vary from one manufacturer to another. Tata vehicles generally tend to have a VIN comprising 17 characters. We need to focus on and decode 2 characters to get to know the manufacturing month and year.
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Across Tata vehicles, the 10th and the 12th characters need to be checked to find out the manufacturing details. The 10th character represents the manufacturing year while the 12th character represents the manufacturing month.
Code Structure For Year
Take a look at the characters for different years:
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Code Structure For Month
Take a look at the characters for different months:
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Let’s take a look at the VIN from a Tata Punch as an example. Here, the VIN is MAT634024NPN0****. Here, the 10th character is N and the 12th character is N. With this information, we can infer that this particular Tata Punch was manufactured in November 2022.
VIN Number Location On Tata Cars
This varies across the make and model of vehicles. In Tata cars, the VIN can be found on the driver’s side door.
In some vehicles, the VIN can also be found in these areas:
- Placed below front windscreen
- Located under the front grille
- Placed on the driver-side door
- Located in the engine bay
- Placed under the spare wheel
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