How To Find Volkswagen Vehicle Manufacturing Date With VIN Number?

28 January 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 VIN number of Volkswagen vehicles and know their month and year of manufacturing.

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 MEX for models like the Virtus and Taigun. The 4th character represents the month of manufacturing, the 5th and 6th character represent the year of manufacture. You can use the table mentioned below to check the month and year of manufacturing of your Volkswagen vehicle.

Code Structure For Month

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

Code	Month
A	January
B	February
C	March
D	April
E	May
F	June
G	July
H	August
J	September
K	October
L	November
M	December

Code Structure For Year

Take a look at the characters used for different years:

Code	Year
10	2010
11	2011
12	2012
13	2013
14	2014
15	2015
16	2016
17	2017
18	2018
19	2019
20	2020
21	2021
22	2022
23	2023
24	2024
25	2025
26	2026
27	2027
28	2028
29	2029
30	2030

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For instance, if your vehicle’s VIN is MEXA24CW2NT013567, then the 5th and 6th character, which in this case is 2 and 4, represents the year of manufacturing. The 4th character, which is A in this case, represents the month of manufacturing. Hence, the vehicle with the VIN number MEXA24CW2NT013567 was manufactured in January 2024.

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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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