How To Find Tata Vehicle Manufacturing Date With VIN Number?

10 May 2024
By Ugra Narayan Pandey
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Keen to find out the manufacturing year and month of a Tata vehicle? How about I go about it? Who should I ask? If these questions bother you, you have reached the correct place. Every automobile sold in India comes with a VIN or Vehicle Identification Number. This VIN is easily accessible and by decoding it correctly you can find out the month and year in which a Tata vehicle was manufactured.

How To Read VIN Number Of Tata Vehicles?

Usually, the VIN is a unique sequence of numbers and characters which could go up to 22 units. The no of characters will vary from one manufacturer to another. Tata vehicles generally tend to have a VIN comprising of 17 characters. We need to focus on and decode two characters to get to know the manufacturing month and year.

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Across Tata vehicles, the 10th and the 12th characters need to be checked to find out the manufacturing details. The 10th character represents the manufacturing year while the 12th character represents the manufacturing month.

Code Structure For Year

Take a look at the characters 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

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Code Structure For Month

Take a look at the characters for different months:

Code	Year
A	January
B	February
C	March
D	April
E	May
F	June
G	July
H	August
J	September
K	October
N	November
P	December

Let's consider the VIN of a Tata vehicle to be MAT61426ANPK75578. In this particular case, the 10th character representing the manufacturing year is N. The 12th character representing the manufacturing month is K. Decoding this tells us that this Tata vehicle was made in October 2022.

Tata VIN Number

VIN Number Location On Tata Cars

This varies across the make and model of vehicles. In Tata cars, the VIN can be found on the driver's side door.

In some vehicles, the VIN can also be found in these areas:

Placed below front windscreen
Located under the front grille
Placed on the driver-side door
Located in the engine bay
Placed under the spare wheel

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7 Comments

N NITIN KUMAR says:

May 11 2023 18:10:32

Very informative thanks for the post
P Peter says:

June 29 2023 01:27:18

My Tata truck vin number is MAT39932247R05742 How can I determine the year model from this number please
s stany pinto says:

December 10 2023 12:54:40

Good morning. in Jeep compass 4x2 new, how to find out the month and year of manufacturing? for example, the VIN No. MCANJPCY5RFB05736*AP Thanks.
A A N Prem says:

January 21 2024 16:23:43

Thanks for information
A A N Prem says:

January 21 2024 16:23:48

Thanks for information
J John says:

January 22 2024 11:58:48

Will you decode the EV motor Number KTZ32 X40SO6ZK *23042402* of Tata Nexon ev car
S Shubham says:

June 18 2024 17:19:41

Thanks for this !