Enter the 17-character VIN of your Eagle 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 free Eagle VIN decoder reads the 17 characters of a VIN and returns the model year, plus the manufacturer and country of manufacture where the code is one we can match. Our data for the brand covers four models, Premier, Summit, Talon and Vision, with model years from 1987 to 1998, in Sedan and Wagon body styles. The highest power figure in our data is 218 hp. No registration is needed.
A VIN holds no accident records, mileage readings, theft status or owner history. That information comes from a paid vehicle history report.
Every VIN 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.
We do not currently have any WMI codes mapped to Eagle, so for now we cannot show a manufacturer or country from the first three characters of an Eagle VIN. That reflects the limits of our list and says nothing about the VIN itself. The model year in position 10 can still be read.
For Eagle model years 1987 to 1998, the tenth character runs H for 1987, J for 1988, K for 1989, L for 1990, M for 1991, N for 1992, P for 1993, R for 1994, S for 1995, T for 1996, V for 1997 and W for 1998. A VIN with T in position 10, for example, points to model year 1996. The check digit in position 9 is required in North America, while many European VINs fill that position 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.
It is usually visible at the base of the windscreen on the driver's side and on a label in the door frame. It also appears on the registration documents, so you can compare the car with the paperwork.
The first three characters are the WMI, which identifies the manufacturer and the country. We have no WMI codes on file for Eagle at the moment, so the decoder may not name a manufacturer or country for these VINs.
Look at the tenth character. For Eagle models in our data, H means 1987 and W means 1998, with J, K, L, M, N, P, R, S, T and V covering the years in between in that order.
It reads only the VIN, so it cannot show accidents, mileage, theft records or previous owners. Those details are not stored in the 17 characters.
Make sure the VIN on the car matches the one on the documents, and that the tenth character fits the model year you were told. Then look at the body, the service records and the seller's account of how the car was used, and ask for proof of the mileage.