How To Find Tata Vehicle Manufacturing Date With VIN Number?

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:

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Code Structure For Month

Take a look at the characters for different months:

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.

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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