To most car enthusiasts, this 17-digit character set seems incomprehensible, even mysterious. However, you can find out almost everything about the car by the wine code, because the VIN code contains almost all the information about it. It is a passport or some kind of DNA of any vehicle.
What is VIN? What is it for?
This standardization system was adopted in the second half of the 20th century. It is regulated by the ISO 3779-1983 standard. The abbreviation VIN stands for Vehicle Identification Number.
Before its adoption, it was possible to identify a car by its body and engine numbers. Fraudsters interrupted, cut them down, trying to "confuse the tracks", to prevent the traffic police from tracing the history of the car, to determine its real owner.
The original VIN code consisted of 7 digits and was stamped on the chassis. Now it contains 17 characters (numbers and Latin letters). It contains a lot of information. By the wine code, you can find out almost everything about the car:
- identify the manufacturer and the current owner;
- familiarize yourself with the history of operation;
- find out the technical characteristics;
- specify the year of manufacture, car mileage, participation in an accident;
- familiarize yourself with the complete set.
Decoding the car's vin code is in demand when buying a used vehicle, because unscrupulous sellers can hide the true state of affairs from the buyer, provide inaccurate data. But even if you buy a new car in a car dealership, after decrypting the car's wine code for free via Internet services, you can specify its year of manufacture, model, select the type of engine oil, and familiarize yourself with other necessary information.
How to find the VIN code?
There is no clearly fixed, standard location for the identification code. The manufacturer places it at his own discretion. It is applied to one-piece body parts, chassis. This can be a small metal plate on the front door pillar, under the hood lid, in the luggage compartment, inside the dashboard. It can be applied under the windshield, on the inside of one of the car's fenders, and so on.
In order to find out the wine code, just look at the documentation that comes with the car:
- technical passport;
- registration certificate;
- insurance policy.
If you are purchasing a used car from your hands, make sure that the 17-digit set indicated on the documents matches the one printed on the vehicle itself.
For almost any car manufactured after 1980, you can check the wine code for free on specialized sites. But, a motorist can do the same work on his own, it is enough to know the rules for decoding information encrypted in a 17-character alphanumeric set.
VIN-code consists of three blocks.
- WMI - Vendor ID
These are the first three characters in which the geographic zone (region - Asia, Europe, etc.), the country of origin, and the company are encrypted. The tables below show the WMI transcript: country and manufacturer definition.
Decoding the country in the VIN code
Some manufacturers have more than one WMI, but at the same time more than one manufacturer cannot be encrypted under one character set. If a company for some reason curtailed production and no longer manufactures cars, then after 30 years, the identifier may be transferred to another company.
- VDS - vehicle characteristics
This block contains 6 characters. They allow you to find out the complete set of a car by wine code, vehicle model, body type, main technical characteristics, and other options:
- 4 symbol - body;
- 5th symbol - engine;
- 6th symbol - model;
- 7, 8 symbols - information at the request of the manufacturer.
Items not used by the manufacturer are filled with zeros. The ninth character is a checksum to verify the authenticity of the car's vin code. For this, the letters included in the block are replaced with numbers in a certain way, and the calculation is performed using a special mathematical formula. The check digit value can be represented as a digit (0 to 9) or an letter (X) value.
- VIS - distinctive features
The last eight characters indicate the characteristics of this vehicle:
- 10 position - the year in which the release of this model was started, the value can be represented as a letter (from A - 1980, to Y - 200) or numbers (from 1 - 2001, to 9 - 2009), from 2010 symbols are repeated;
Note: if the model was put into production at the end of the year (September - December), then the manufacturer can indicate the next year in the wine code. - 11 position - information about the plant where the car was assembled;
- 12-17 positions - the serial number of the car assigned to it in the course of in-plant accounting.
In order for the decoding performed by you to be as accurate and complete as possible, after determining the country of the car manufacturer (according to WMI), go to the manufacturer's website and specify what information is encrypted in characters 4 - 11. This must be done, since many companies do not strictly follow the provisions of the standard.
How to check the VIN-code of a car?
In order to be 100% sure that the car you are buying is not on the wanted list or on bail, first of all, clarify the authenticity of the existing identifier. The vehicle's VIN code check can be performed visually. To do this, you need to carefully examine the symbols embossed on the parts of the vehicle, paying attention to the same height, depth, width of their application. Then you need to compare their values with those indicated in the TCP.
You can find out if the car has been stolen on the Internet. You can easily find many different resources, information bases containing information about stolen cars. Here you can punch your car and search for the wine code for free. In fact, you can even check the complete set of a car by wine code for free.
There are many services on the Internet that offer services for decoding the car's wine code, online, both for a fee and for free:
- adaperio.ru;
- autodna.ru
- vin.auto.ru;
- vinid.ru;
- vinexpert.ru;
- check-machine.rf;
- check-car.rus;
- carkod.ru.
Most often, to find out the history of a car by wine code, clarify the configuration, engine model, car color and other parameters, it is enough to enter a 17-digit set of characters in a special field and start a check. Some resources require the introduction of additional settings (brand, year of issue). Please note that the information available on the network may not be entirely reliable, therefore, in order to obtain more accurate information, it is recommended to check the wine code on several sites.
1. Site gibdd.ru
Since 2014, the function of free wine code check is available on the official website of the traffic police. It is available to all citizens of our country in any region. With its help you can:
- identify information about the search for a car;
- check fines;
- learn about the restrictions imposed on registration actions with the vehicle.
To get the service, just click on the "Check car" button on the main page of the site.
On the next page, enter the car's wine code in the appropriate fields and click "Start check".
"Antirobot" will ask you to enter security symbols, after which it will display the results of the check. If you do not have a VIN code, you can use the body, chassis number to identify the vehicle.
The service allows you to check the car VIN-code, license plate, collecting data from various information databases, other sources: traffic police, banks, courts, customs, courts and so on.
To start the function, you need to enter your VIN-code or state number on the main page of the site and click on the "Check" button.
On this service, only a short report is provided free of charge. After making a payment (267 rubles), you will get access to more data:
- engine, body number;
- wheel formula;
- data on PTS and vehicle owners;
- mileage;
- participation in an accident and so on.
Working with other services is similar to those presented above.
Enter the wine code in the appropriate field and click on the "Check" button
For more information, click "Decrypt".
Enter wines and click on the "Check VIN" button.
Only basic information will be given to you free of charge.
You will need to pay a small amount to get the details. In this case, you will learn the most complete information about the vehicle, the history of its operation.
In any case, checking is very convenient. It takes very little time, and the data available about the car is displayed directly on the monitor screen.
