How To Find Renault Vehicle Manufacturing Date With VIN Number?

10 February 2024
By Nikil Jonathan
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Finding the actual age or manufacturing month and year of a vehicle is easier than you think. You can use the VIN, or vehicle identification number, to find the month and year of manufacturing of any vehicle. Every vehicle comes with a VIN, which is easily accessible. In this article, we explain how to read the Renault VIN number and know the month and year of manufacturing of your Renault car or SUV.

How To Read VIN Number Of Renault 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 Renault cars and SUVs, their VIN number generally consists of 17 characters.

In Renault vehicles, the VIN characters begin mostly with MEE. The 10th character represents the year of manufacturing while the 11th character represents the month of manufacture. You can use the table mentioned below to check the month and year of manufacturing of your Renault vehicle.

Code Structure For Month

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

Code	Month
1	January
2	February
3	March
4	April
5	May
6	June
7	July
8	August
9	September
A	October
B	November
C	December

Code Structure For Year

Take a look at the characters used for different years:

Code	Year
A	2010
B	2011
C	2012
D	2013
E	2014
F	2015
G	2016
H	2017
J	2018
K	2019
L	2020
M	2021
N	2022
P	2023
R	2024
S	2025
T	2026
V	2027
W	2028
X	2029
Y	2030

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For instance, if your vehicle’s VIN is MEERBC00XM1078481, then the 10th character, which in this case is M, represents the year of manufacturing. The 11th character, which is 1 in this case, represents the month of manufacturing. Hence, the Renault vehicle with the VIN number MEERBC00XM1078481 was manufactured in January 2021.

Renault VIN Number

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nikil Jonathan

Nikil's a huge fan of classic cars, especially Italian beauties such as the Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint and the Iso Grifo. His love for cars and bikes originated when he first laid his eyes on a poster of the Ferrari F40 and the MV Agusta F4 when he was just a child. He also loves all things analogue, especially vintage cameras and turntables.

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