Manufacturing date/year from Chassis number of Indian cars (eg. Mahindra Scorpio) - Page 2 - Team-BHP

hondadude · 18th February 2008, 16:59

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Originally Posted by hrman

Here is the Indica/Marina/ Indigo coding:
I have picked this from Tata Indica Users Group. Due credits to Mr. Achin Juneja, the guru on Tata cars..Very useful info.

The Link:
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This is great information hrman. Thanks for sharing.

Does anyone know if other manufacturers follows the same standard ? Is manufacturer id a part of chassis number as well ?

I was surfing on the net and VIN used in US seems to be standardized across manufacturers and the decoding is very standard.

undead · 17th March 2008, 07:18

AFAIK , The only vehicle in India having a VIN number is the Skoda Fabia .

srikat · 9th April 2008, 12:30

Today I had a look at my car (i10 Era) before it was sent for registration. Asked the sales person to show me the manufacturing month and year and he showed me some huge number (I think it's the engine number) that had letters 8M in between some more alphabets. He told me that it means "2008 Manufactured". Is he correct? Will the manufacturing month and year not be written clearly anywhere inside the car?

rkbharat · 13th May 2008, 10:16

Note from Mod - Threads merged. Please do a search before creating a new thread.

Please tell me the way I can find the manafacturing date of maruti cars, more specifically SX4.

I need to make sure its 2008 and max Upto March. I have read few nasty problems in previous assemblies.

In Tata Cars this can be calculated from the Engine number.

Please help me urgently as I need to take the delivery soon

abcxyz07306 · 13th May 2008, 10:34

Hi,

Recently I was talking with a Maruti dealer employee; he informed that last two characters on specific number refer to manufactured month/year. We were looking at Wagon R; under bonnet there was small plate in left corner having bunch of characters, last two characters were C8, he decoded it to March 08.

I am not sure about SX4.

rkbharat · 13th May 2008, 11:04

exactly I need something similar. From the Engine number of Tata cars, you can find out the year, month, plant, etc.

I will check this in SX4 in office.

Quote:

Originally Posted by abcxyz07306

Hi,

Recently I was talking with a Maruti dealer employee; he informed that last two characters on specific number refer to manufactured month/year. We were looking at Wagon R; under bonnet there was small plate in left corner having bunch of characters, last two characters were C8, he decoded it to March 08.

I am not sure about SX4.

dadu · 13th May 2008, 11:45

Although OT, can you define how for TATA??

Quote:

Originally Posted by rkbharat

exactly I need something similar. From the Engine number of Tata cars, you can find out the year, month, plant, etc.

I will check this in SX4 in office.

rkbharat · 13th May 2008, 11:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by dadu

Although OT, can you define how for TATA??

Just realized that its there in the thread for TATA, courtesy to Mr Achin.

Yahoo! Groups

13th May 2008, 10:16	#19 (permalink)
rkbharat BHPian Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Gurgaon/New Delhi Posts: 442 View My Garage	How to find the manafacturing date? Note from Mod - Threads merged. Please do a search before creating a new thread. Please tell me the way I can find the manafacturing date of maruti cars, more specifically SX4. I need to make sure its 2008 and max Upto March. I have read few nasty problems in previous assemblies. In Tata Cars this can be calculated from the Engine number. Please help me urgently as I need to take the delivery soon __________________ Cheers.....Rajiv SX4-ZXi, May 2008, 1500KM, FE City 10.5-12, 100% AC Maruti 800, 1999, 7800 KM, 19KM/L Indica V2, Sold at 97234KM Last edited by Rehaan : 13th May 2008 at 11:50. Reason: Threads merged.

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17th March 2008, 07:18	#17 (permalink)
undead BHPian Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: TamilNadu Posts: 462	AFAIK , The only vehicle in India having a VIN number is the Skoda Fabia .

9th April 2008, 12:30	#18 (permalink)
srikat BHPian Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Bangalore Posts: 59	Today I had a look at my car (i10 Era) before it was sent for registration. Asked the sales person to show me the manufacturing month and year and he showed me some huge number (I think it's the engine number) that had letters 8M in between some more alphabets. He told me that it means "2008 Manufactured". Is he correct? Will the manufacturing month and year not be written clearly anywhere inside the car?

13th May 2008, 10:34	#20 (permalink)
abcxyz07306 Newbie Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Pune Posts: 10	Hi, Recently I was talking with a Maruti dealer employee; he informed that last two characters on specific number refer to manufactured month/year. We were looking at Wagon R; under bonnet there was small plate in left corner having bunch of characters, last two characters were C8, he decoded it to March 08. I am not sure about SX4.