Check / Decode Volkswagen Car VIN Number & Manufacturing Date

Ever wondered about your Volkswagen’s exact age? The answer lies within its Vehicle Identification Number (VIN)! This unique code, found on every car, acts like a car’s fingerprint, holding vital information including its manufacturing date. Keen to know when your Volkswagen rolled off the production line? This guide will equip you to decode your VIN and pinpoint the month and year of manufacture.

How To Read VIN Number Of Volkswagen Vehicles?

A VIN number consists of multiple characters and digits and it could span up to 22 characters. However, the number of characters and digits varies from one carmaker to the next, but there are essentially 2 characters that are required to know the manufacturing date of any vehicle. In the case of Volkswagen cars and SUVs, their VIN number generally consists of 17 characters.

In Volkswagen vehicles, the VIN characters begin with either MEX or MEB. Let us take the VIN MEXM22D29PT00**** from the image above as an example. Here, MEX identifies a Volkswagen car manufactured in India. The 4th character ‘M’ denotes the month of manufacture. The 5th and 6th character ‘22’ represents the year of manufacture. The remaining characters are a unique serial number for the specific vehicle. Thus, the Volkswagen car with the VIN MEXM22D29PT00**** was manufactured in December 2022.

Code Structure For Month

Take a look at the characters used for different months of the year:

Code Structure For Year

Take a look at the characters used for different years:

VIN Number Location On Volkswagen Cars

The placement of VIN varies from car to car and from one manufacturer to the other. In the above example (Volkswagen Virtus), the VIN plate is located on the base of the windshield.

Here are the other possible placements of VIN number in different make and models:

• Under the front windscreen
• Under the front grille
• Under driver side door
• Inside the engine bay
• Beneath the spare wheel in boot

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