VIN decoder

Enter a 17-character VIN to see what the manufacturer built: year, make, model, engine, drivetrain and assembly plant — plus any open safety recalls for that vehicle.

Your VIN is on the driver's-side dashboard where it meets the windscreen, on the door jamb sticker, and on your registration and insurance documents.

What a VIN can and cannot tell you

A VIN encodes what the factory built: the manufacturer, the plant, the model year, the body and — for most vehicles — the engine family. Decoding is done here against NHTSA's vPIC database, the same public dataset the government uses.

It does not tell you mileage, service history, accident history, ownership, or whether a recall was actually performed on this specific car. No VIN decoder can — that information lives with the dealer and with title records, not in the number itself.

We do not store the VINs entered here. There is no page for your VIN, it is not logged, and it is not sent to any analytics. See our privacy policy.