How To Find Toyota Vehicle Manufacturing Date With VIN Number?

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 Toyota vehicles and know their month and year of manufacturing.

Toyota VIN Number Decode

How To Read VIN Number Of Toyota 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 Toyota vehicles, their VIN number generally consists of 22 characters.

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In Toyota vehicles, the 19th and 20th characters represent the month of manufacturing and the 21st and 22nd characters represent the year of manufacturing. You can use the table below to check the month and year of manufacturing of your Toyota Vehicle.

Let’s take the above image as an example. Here, the VIN is MBJAC3AK802****15~1224. Here, the 19th and 20th characters are 1 and 2, respectively. The 21st and 22nd characters are 2 and 4. Based on this number, we can determine that this particular Toyota Camry car was manufactured in December 2024.

You can use the table below to check the month and year of manufacturing of your Toyota Vehicle.

Code Structure For Month

Take a look at the characters for different months:

Code

Year

01

January

02

February

03

March

04

April

05

May

06

June

07

July

08

August

09

September

10

October

11

November

12

December

Code Structure For Year

Take a look at the characters for different years:

Code

Year

10

2010

11

2011

12

2012

13

2013

14

2014

15

2015

16

2016

17

2017

18

2018

19

2019

20

2020

21

2021

22

2022

23

2023

24

2024

25

2025

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VIN Number Location On Toyota Cars

The placement of VIN numbers varies from car to car and from one manufacturer to the other. In most Toyota cars, you can find the VIN number at the bottom of the front windscreen.

Here are the other possible placements of VIN number in different make and models:

  • Under the front grille
  • Under driver side door
  • Inside the engine bay
  • Beneath the spare wheel in boot

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4 Comments

  1. M Muhammed shehirsha says:
    July 26 2023 00:38:47

    HAI TOYOTA TEAM MY FORTUNER CAR VIN NUMBER PUNCHING PLATE MISSING PLZ ORDER NEW VIN NUMBER

  2. C Car Hamro says:
    March 27 2024 10:32:55

    I found your article very informative. Do keep posting such articles! Thank You.

  3. u ubed Ansari says:
    May 09 2024 08:07:55

    Hi there, I have a toyota carolla Hybrid, 2015,1.5 ltrs. I am trying to find its month of manufacture Number Plate NGP590 In New Zealand Vin Number: 7AT0H607X20123488 Can you please help me to find its month of manufacture? Kind regards ED

  4. p pankaj kumar says:
    October 09 2024 10:03:38

    i am looking for the year and month of manufacture of my toyota hyryder hybrid vehicle having vin number - MBJUYMM1SRH156635. could you please help me in that?

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