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NHTSA / Decode a VIN

Decode a U.S. Vehicle Identification Number with NHTSA's official vPIC database: make, model, model year, trim, body class, vehicle type, engine (cylinders, displacement, fuel), drive type, transmission, plant country and city, manufacturer, safety equipment (airbags, ABS, ESC) and about 140 more fields as one flat object. A partial VIN works with * for unknown positions. ErrorCode in the result says how clean the decode is: 0 = clean, other codes (e.g. 1 check digit, 6 incomplete VIN, 11 bad model year) mean partial or no data. A bad VIN still answers (completed, $0) with those codes. Free. Source: U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), U.S. government data in the public domain.

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