Enter the 17-character VIN of your Mega 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 decoder reads what is built into it: the manufacturer, the model year and the country of manufacture. For Mega, our data covers four models, Club, e-Scouty, Monte Carlo and Track, with model years from 1992 to 2022. The body style in our data is Hatchback.
A VIN does not hold accidents, mileage, theft records or the number of previous owners. That information comes from a paid vehicle history report. The decoder itself is free and needs no registration.
Pick a Mega model to see how its VIN works.
Every VIN has 17 characters, and the letters I, O and Q are never used. The first three characters are the WMI, the world manufacturer identifier, which tells you who built the vehicle and in which country. At the moment we have no WMI codes mapped to Mega, so there is no code to quote here, and no country to name. Our list is not complete, and it grows over time.
Characters 4 to 8 describe the vehicle itself, and character 9 is a check digit. North American VINs must use it as a check digit, while many European VINs fill it in differently. Character 10 is the model year. For a Mega, that letter or digit falls somewhere in the range our data covers, 1992 to 2022. N stands for 1992, for example, and the same letter returns for 2022, so the other characters and the car itself help you tell the two apart.
Character 11 is the plant, and characters 12 to 17 are the serial number. Together they identify one individual vehicle. VINs in this 17-character form exist for cars built since 1981.
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.
Look at the registration documents first, where it is printed in full. On the car it is usually visible at the base of the windscreen on the driver's side or on a sticker in a door frame. Compare all of these, because they should show the same 17 characters.
The first three characters are the WMI, which identifies the manufacturer and the country of manufacture. We currently have no WMI codes mapped to Mega, so we cannot list any here. A VIN that starts with other characters is not a problem, since our list simply is not complete.
Read the 10th character of the VIN. The decoder does this for you. Our Mega data covers model years 1992 to 2022, and a 10th character of N, for instance, points to 1992 (and also to 2022, since the letters repeat after 30 years).
It cannot show accidents, mileage, theft status or previous owners, because none of that is stored in the VIN. It reads only the 17 characters and reports what they encode.
Make sure the VIN on the car, on the registration papers and in the advert is identical. Then go through the service records, inspect the bodywork and interior carefully, and take a proper test drive. Models such as the Club, e-Scouty, Monte Carlo or Track may differ a lot between model years, so confirm the year from the VIN as well.