Enter the 17-character VIN of your Asia 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.
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The Asia decoder reads the 17-character VIN and shows the manufacturer, the model year and the country of manufacture. Our data for the brand lists three models, Hi-topic, Retona and Rocsta, with model years running from 1987 to 2003. Wagon is the only body style in our data, and the highest power we have on record is 136 hp.
A VIN does not contain accidents, mileage, theft or previous owners. That information comes from a paid vehicle history report.
Every VIN of a car built since 1981 has 17 characters, and the letters I, O and Q are never used. The first three characters are the WMI, which tells you who built the vehicle and in which country. For Asia we currently have no WMI codes mapped, so there are no codes or countries to list here. Our list is not complete, and a VIN that begins with other characters simply falls outside what we can match to the brand.
The rest of the number is easier to use. Characters 4 to 8 describe the vehicle, character 9 is the check digit (required in North America, while many European VINs fill it differently), character 10 gives the model year, character 11 the plant, and characters 12 to 17 are the serial number. For the model years in our Asia data, the tenth character runs from H for 1987 and S for 1995 through Y for 2000 and 1 for 2001 up to 3 for 2003.
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.
On most cars it is on a plate you can read from outside at the base of the windscreen, and it is also printed on the registration document. Copy all 17 characters exactly, without the letters I, O or Q, which are never part of a VIN.
The first three characters are the WMI, which identifies the manufacturer and country. We have no WMI codes mapped to Asia at the moment, so we cannot name a code for the brand. That reflects the limits of our list, not the condition of any particular car.
Look at the tenth character. In the range covered by our data, H means 1987, S means 1995 and 3 means 2003. Letters and digits in this position repeat over the decades, so check the result against the car itself.
It cannot show accidents, mileage, theft records or the number of owners, because none of that is stored in the VIN. It only reads the number itself.
Compare the VIN on the car with the one in the registration papers, and make sure the tenth character fits the year the seller gives. Since the models in our data (Hi-topic, Retona and Rocsta) date from 1987 to 2003, also ask how the car has been used and maintained over the years.