Enter the 17-character VIN of your Carbodies 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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This page decodes the 17-character VIN of a Carbodies. The free decoder reads the manufacturer, the model year and the country of manufacture from the VIN, and needs no registration. Our data for the brand is small: one model, the Taxi, with a Sedan body style, model years 1982 to 1995 and a highest listed output of 79 hp.
The decoder reads only the VIN itself, so it shows nothing about accidents, mileage, theft or previous owners. That information comes from a paid vehicle history report.
Pick a Carbodies model to see how its VIN works.
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 identifies the manufacturer and the country of manufacture. 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.
At the moment we have no WMI codes mapped to Carbodies, so we cannot list any first-three-character examples here, and we have no country to name. Our WMI list is not complete, and that gap says nothing about any particular VIN.
The model year character is easier to illustrate. Our version data for Carbodies runs from 1982 to 1995. In position 10 that range is written as C for 1982, L for 1990 and S for 1995, with the other years in between following the same sequence of letters.
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 on the registration document and on a plate or stamping on the vehicle itself. Compare the characters on the car with the paperwork, one by one, before you enter them into the decoder.
The first three characters are the WMI, which stands for the manufacturer and the country of manufacture. We currently have no WMI codes mapped to Carbodies, so we cannot name specific ones here.
Look at the 10th character. For the years in our data, C means 1982, L means 1990 and S means 1995. The letters in between run in order from C to S.
It cannot show accidents, mileage, theft records or previous owners, because none of that is stored in the VIN. The decoder only reads the 17 characters.
Make sure the VIN on the vehicle matches the documents and that the 10th character fits the year stated in the advert. Then inspect the car in person, since a decoded VIN tells you nothing about its condition.