How To Find Kia Vehicle Manufacturing Date With VIN Number?

04 February 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 Kia vehicles and know their month and year of manufacturing.

How To Read VIN Number Of Kia 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 Kia cars and SUVs, their VIN number generally consists of 19 characters.

In Kia vehicles, the VIN characters begin with MZB. The 10th character represents the year of manufacturing while the 19th character represents the month of manufacture. You can use the table mentioned below to check the month and year of manufacturing of your Kia 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
A	2010
B	2011
C	2012
D	2013
E	2014
F	2015
G	2016
H	2017
J	2018
K	2019
L	2020
M	2021
N	2022
P	2023
R	2024
S	2025
T	2026
V	2027
W	2028
X	2029
Y	2030

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For instance, if your vehicle’s VIN is MZBET811VMN282073*H, then the 10th character, which in this case is M, represents the year of manufacturing. The 19th character, which is H in this case, represents the month of manufacturing. Hence, the Kia vehicle with the VIN number MZBET811VMN282073*H was manufactured in August 2021.

Kia VUN Number