Enter the 17-character VIN of your Alpine to see the factory basics. Free, with no registration.
Look on the dashboard, the driver's door frame or in the registration document.
Type all 17 characters. The letters I, O and Q are never used in a VIN.
See the factory basics for free, and order a full report for the history behind the VIN.
Enter a 17-character VIN and the Alpine decoder reads what is written into it: the manufacturer code, the model year and the country of manufacture. Our data lists nine Alpine models, among them 1300, 1600, A110, A290, A310, A390, A610, Berlinette and GTA, with model years from 1966 to 2024. The body style in our data is Hatchback, and the highest power figure is 300 hp.
The decoder reads the VIN and nothing more, so it says nothing about accidents, mileage, theft or previous owners. That information comes from a paid vehicle history report.
Every 17-character VIN follows the same layout. Characters 1 to 3 are the WMI, which identifies the manufacturer and the country. Characters 4 to 8 describe the vehicle, character 9 is the check digit, character 10 is the model year, character 11 is the plant, and characters 12 to 17 are the serial number. The letters I, O and Q are never used.
At the moment we have no WMI codes mapped to Alpine, so we cannot list any here, and we cannot name a country from the first three characters. This only reflects the limits of our list. The decoder still reads the other positions, such as the model year in character 10.
That character is a letter or a digit. R, for example, stands for 2024, the last model year in our Alpine data. The 17-character format applies to cars built since 1981, so for the earliest years in our range, which start at 1966, a number may not fit the standard layout. The check digit in position 9 is required in North America, while many European VINs fill it differently.
Every VIN has six parts. This is what each of them means.
| Part | Characters | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| WMI | 1 to 3 | World manufacturer identifier: who built the vehicle and where |
| VDS | 4 to 8 | Vehicle descriptor: model, body type and engine, as set by the manufacturer |
| Check digit | 9 | Control value that helps confirm the VIN is valid |
| Model year | 10 | Code for the model year |
| Plant | 11 | Code for the assembly plant |
| Serial | 12 to 17 | Production sequence number of this vehicle |
On the driver's side, visible through the windshield.
On a sticker on the door frame or the edge of the door.
Printed in the vehicle registration or title.
Stamped on the firewall or the frame on many models.
A VIN is built from six parts, and each one says something about the vehicle. Our guides explain how to read it and what it can and cannot tell you.
Enter the 17-character VIN and see the factory basics in seconds.
The VIN is normally stamped on the car and printed in the registration papers. Compare the number on the car with the one in the documents before you enter it into the decoder.
The first three characters are the WMI, which identify the manufacturer and country. We currently have no WMI codes mapped to Alpine, so we cannot show a list. A VIN that starts with other characters is not wrong because of that.
Look at the tenth character. For example, R means 2024 and B means 1981. Our Alpine data covers model years 1966 to 2024, and the VIN format itself applies to cars built since 1981.
It cannot show accidents, mileage, theft records or the number of owners, because a VIN does not contain them. It only reads the characters of the VIN itself.
Make sure the VIN on the car matches the one in the papers, and decode it to see whether the model year and country fit the description in the advert. Then ask for service records and have the car inspected in person.