Enter the 17-character VIN of your Paykan 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 Paykan VIN and the decoder reads what is built into the number itself: the manufacturer, the model year and the country of manufacture. Our data for the brand lists one model, the Saloon, a sedan with model years from 1985 to 2010. The highest power we have on record is 96 hp.
A VIN does not contain accidents, mileage, theft records or previous owners. That information comes from a paid vehicle history report, while the decoder here stays free and needs no registration.
Pick a Paykan 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 names the manufacturer and the country. Characters 4 to 8 describe the vehicle, character 9 is a 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 Paykan, so we cannot list any here, and the country of manufacture is not available for this brand. Our list of codes is not complete, so a VIN that starts with other characters is not a problem in itself. The decoder simply reports what it can recognise.
The model year is the easiest part to check by hand. Position 10 is a single character, and for the years in our Paykan data it runs from F for 1985 to A for 2010. Between those two, for example, the letter L stands for 1990 and Y for 2000, while the digits 1 to 9 cover 2001 to 2009. Note that the check digit in position 9 is required in North America, but many European VINs fill it 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.
Check the vehicle registration papers first, then compare them with the number stamped or printed on the car itself. Typical places are the base of the windscreen on the driver's side, the door pillar and the engine bay, though the exact spots can vary from car to car.
The first three characters are the WMI, which identifies the manufacturer and the country. We do not currently have any WMI codes mapped to Paykan, so we cannot name one, and a VIN starting with other characters is not wrong because of that.
Look at the 10th character. In the range of our Paykan data, F means 1985, L means 1990, Y means 2000, 5 means 2005 and A means 2010.
It cannot show accidents, mileage, theft or earlier owners, because none of that is stored in a VIN. It reads only the 17 characters, so it gives you manufacturer, model year and country of manufacture where the code is recognised.
Make sure the VIN on the car matches the number in the papers and that the 10th character fits the year the seller names. Then inspect the car in person, ask for service records and a test drive, and be wary of any gaps in the paperwork.