Enter the 17-character VIN of your Ronart 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 the manufacturer, the model year and the country of manufacture from it. For Ronart, our data lists one model, the Lightning, with the Convertible body style and model years from 1999 to 2003. The decoder is free and needs no registration.
A VIN does not hold accidents, mileage, theft records or past owners. That information comes from a paid vehicle history report, which you can order separately once you have the VIN.
Pick a Ronart model to see how its VIN works.
The first three characters of a VIN are the World Manufacturer Identifier, or WMI. It tells you who built the vehicle and in which country. We do not yet have a WMI code mapped to Ronart, so we cannot list one here or name a country. Our list is not complete, and a VIN that starts with other characters is not a problem in itself.
The tenth character is the model year. For the years in our Ronart data the letters and digits run like this: X is 1999, Y is 2000, 1 is 2001, 2 is 2002 and 3 is 2003. A Lightning with a Y in position 10, for example, points to model year 2000.
Characters 4 to 8 describe the vehicle, and character 9 is a check digit. North American VINs must use it as a check digit, while many European VINs fill it differently. Character 11 is the plant, and characters 12 to 17 are the serial number. Letters I, O and Q are never used in a VIN, so if you read one of them on a number, look again.
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.
Start with the registration papers, then compare the number with the one on the car itself. Common places are the base of the windscreen or a door pillar plate, but the position can vary, so check the car carefully.
The first three characters are the WMI, which identifies the manufacturer and country. We have no WMI code mapped to Ronart at the moment, so the decoder cannot tie a prefix to the brand from our list alone.
Look at the tenth character. Within our data, X means 1999, Y means 2000, 1 means 2001, 2 means 2002 and 3 means 2003.
It cannot show accident damage, mileage, theft status or how many owners the car has had. None of that is stored in the 17 characters of the VIN.
Make sure the VIN on the car matches the one on the documents and that the model year character fits the car being offered. Ask for service records, and have the car inspected in person, since the decoder only reads the VIN.