How To Find Hyundai Vehicle Manufacturing Date With VIN Number?

One can easily find out the manufacturing details, that is, the month and year of manufacture of any Hyundai vehicle. One simply needs to be able to decode the VIN for this. In case you are wondering, the VIN or Vehicle Identification Number is unique to every vehicle. This article will explain in detail how you can decode Hyundai VIN to find out the manufacturing year and month.

Hyundai Car VIN Number

How To Read VIN Number Of Hyundai Vehicles?

Irrespective of the make and model, in any vehicle, a VIN is a sequence of numbers and alphabets that could go up to 22 characters. The character count will vary across manufacturers. Usually in Hyundai vehicles, the VIN consists of 19 characters. To decode the manufacturing year and month, one needs to focus on two characters. 

Typically, a Hyundai VIN starts with the series MAL. The 10th and 19th characters are the ones to be focussed on. The 10th character represents manufacturing year while the 19th character represents manufacturing month. The below table needs to be referred to decode a Hyundai vehicle's manufacturing details.

Code Structure For Month

Take a look at the characters used for different months of the year:

Code

Month

A

January

B

February

C

March

D

April

E

May

F

June

G

July

H

August

J

September

K

October

L

November

M

December

Code Structure For Year

Take a look at the characters used for different years:

Code

Year

A

2010

B

2011

C

2012

D

2013

E

2014

F

2015

G

2016

H

2017

J

2018

K

2019

L

2020

M

2021

N

2022

P

2023

R

2024

S

2025

T

2026

V

2027

W

2028

X

2029

Y

2030

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Let's consider a case where the Hyundai vehicle VIN is MALC381ULHM299927*H. The 10th character happens to be H while the 19th character also happens to be H. So, decoding this information tells us that this particular Hyundai vehicle was made in August 2017.

Hyundai VIN Number

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