Enter the 17-character VIN of your Chrysler 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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Type in the 17-character VIN of a Chrysler and the decoder reads the manufacturer, the model year and the country of manufacture from it. It is free and needs no registration. Our data covers 28 Chrysler models, from the 200 and 300 to the Viper and the Voyager, with model years from 1982 to the present, since some models are still built.
The decoder reads only the VIN itself, so it cannot show accidents, mileage, theft or previous owners. That information comes from a paid vehicle history report.
Pick a Chrysler model to see how its VIN works.
The first three characters are the WMI, the code that names the manufacturer and the country. We map twelve of them to Chrysler: 1A4, 1A8, 1C3, 1C8, 2A4, 2A8, 2C3, 2C4, 2C8, 3A4, 3A8 and 3C8. Codes starting with 1 point to the United States, those starting with 2 to Canada and those starting with 3 to Mexico, and Switzerland also appears among the countries tied to this brand in our data. These are the codes we recognise for Chrysler, and the list is not complete.
Characters 4 to 8 describe the vehicle, and character 9 is the check digit. North American VINs must carry a real check digit, while many European VINs fill that position differently. Character 10 is the model year: C stands for 1982, the earliest year in our Chrysler data, S for 2025 and T for 2026. Character 11 marks the plant, and characters 12 to 17 are the serial number.
The letters I, O and Q are never used in a VIN, so if you see something that looks like one of them, it is almost certainly a 1 or a 0. Standardised 17-character VINs exist for cars built since 1981, so older vehicles may not decode.
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.
It is usually printed at the base of the windscreen on the driver's side and on a label on the door pillar. It is also listed on the registration documents, so you can compare all three.
The first three characters are the WMI. Codes we map to Chrysler include 1C3, 2C3 and 3C8, where the leading 1, 2 or 3 stands for the United States, Canada or Mexico.
Look at the 10th character. For example, C means 1982, S means 2025 and T means 2026. Digits are used for 2001 to 2009, and the letters then start again from A for 2010.
It cannot show accidents, mileage, theft records or the number of owners, because none of that is stored in the VIN. The decoder only reads the manufacturer, model year and country of manufacture.
Make sure the VIN on the car matches the one on the papers, character by character. Then check that the decoded model year and country fit what the seller tells you, and ask for service records.