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Wildon, my friend got this vehicle allocated 10 days back and is waiting for it to arrive in the yard.

He was curious as to how with such high demand, a 4 month old vehicle got allocated. Suspicious as to the vehicle was used for any marketing/display or related purpose, he followed up with Ford Customer care. Ford customer care indicated in a written communication that build of the vehicle (though has a May VIN) was completed in September only and is directly retailed from the plant to the dealer.

Are you aware as to when the VIN is generated? Is it once when the vehicle build is completed and ready for Quality Check / Shipping? Or is it before that, when the build of the vehicle starts.

Thank you. We requested for the allocation of a "newer" car and they provided the below VIN. Could you decode this please?

MALBB51RLDM597136

Thank you anyway. If you dont mind me asking, where do you source the reports from? Please dont answer it if confidential!

Where did you get these 2 codes from? I too am buying Ertiga ZDi with alloys but mine is claimed to be factory fitted alloys.

Please post it here if that's ok as I have no PM option

Hey wildon, sir can you please decode this vin and let me know the details, please :)

MCA110HDB09032671

Regards,
Sameer

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Wildon Sir,
My dealer has given me VIN no. DC66690 for EcoSport. I believe other digits will be similar to other Ford vehicles. Can you please decode the date of manufacture. I understand that D & C correspond to 2013 and September.
Thanks.

OT, do you get keyless entry, start stop in a September manufactured car?

My variant doesn't have these features.

If you see a page or couple of pages back, Wildon has shared Maruti codes. I just compared it with what my dealer gave as a stock list upon my request(which is also attached in my previous posts a couple of pages back.) I am now interested to know if yours is a L200/100 :) please share once you get to know as we both can compare.

Sorry i don't have the knowledge of the same.

Make : Hyundai
Model : i20 Magna
Engine : 1400CC -U2
Engine Number : D4FCDU292487
Production Date : 23.08.2013
Color : White Coral

110HDB = 1.3-JTD-90CV-CF4, Emotion
Production details are not available with me.

If you can give the last 3 Characters the same can be decoded manually.

Make : Ford
Model : EcoSport
Engine : 1.5L Duratec Ti-VCT (110PS) - Sigma
Transmission : 6 Speed Auto DCPS
Production Date : 23.09.2013
Color : Mars Red

^^Sir, that's all I received from my SA, by last 3 character, you meant that there are few character missing in this vin number??

Wildon, could you please decode this VIN for me:

WVWJ13609ET024233

I would be much obliged if you could geberate the complete pdf report. Many thanks in advance!

My dealer hasn't given me this code since he didn't give me such a stock list. Will check if he can give this model no.
By searching on the internet I came to know from http://www.khivrajmotors.co.in/ertiga.htm that L100 is for ZDi with alloys. Which one is yours?
Invoice amount would differ for ZDi with alloys vs ZDi without alloys but fitted with alloys by dealer. Former costs 32k more than ZDi without alloys while later would cost only 26k more, but will show up as accessories charge for a set of 5 alloys. Though costing more, OEM fitment said to be better right?

Thanks :) Ya, better to get it fitted from factory itself (I feel) and ya, mine is L100.

I must say khivraj site was pretty neat and with useful info unlike many other. Especially their emi calcs with down payment info and discounts, on road price info etc. Then I noticed that the same site is customised for some other dealerships also for ex, Bangalore ones.

Hello Wildon,
Could you kindly provide the PDF files for both these VINs, for my cars?

• MALBT51HR6M030231
• MAJAXXMRKADG45564