How To Find Chevrolet Vehicle Manufacturing Date With VIN Number?

Finding the exact manufacturing month and year of your Chevrolet vehicle is a straightforward process using its Vehicle Identification Number (VIN). The VIN, a unique code assigned to every vehicle, contains valuable information about its manufacturing details. In this guide, we'll walk you through how to decode your Chevrolet's VIN to discover its production date.

Chevrolet Car VIN Number & Manufacturing Date

How To Read VIN Number Of Chevrolet 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 Chevrolet cars and SUVs, their VIN number generally consists of 17 characters.

In Chevrolet vehicles, the VIN characters begin mostly with MA. In Chevrolet cars produced until February 2011, the 7th character represents the month of manufacturing while the 9th character represents the year of manufacture. 

You can use the table mentioned below to check the month and year of manufacturing of your Chevrolet 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

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If your Chevrolet car has the following VIN - MA6MFBC1BBB096358 - then the 7th character, which in this case is C, represents the month of manufacturing. The 9th character, which is B in this case, represents the year of manufacturing. Hence, the Chevrolet vehicle with the VIN number MA6MFBC1BBB096358 was manufactured in March 2011.

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