How To Find Tata Vehicle Manufacturing Date With VIN Number?

Finding the actual age or manufacturing month and year of a vehicle is easier than you think. You can use the VIN, or vehicle identification number, to find the month and year of manufacturing of any vehicle. Every vehicle comes with a VIN, which is easily accessible. In this article, we explain how to read the VIN number of Tata vehicles and know their month and year of manufacturing.

Tata VIN Number

How To Read VIN Number Of Tata Vehicles?

A VIN number consists of multiple characters and digits and it could span up to 22 characters. However, the number of characters and digits varies from one carmaker to the next, but there are essentially 2 characters that are required to know the manufacturing date of any vehicle. In the case of Tata vehicles, their VIN number generally consists of 17 characters.

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In Tata vehicles, the 10th character represents the year of manufacturing and the 12th character represents the month of manufacturing. You can use the table mentioned below to check the month and year of manufacturing of your Tata Vehicle.

Code Structure For Year

Take a look at the characters 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

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Code Structure For Month

Take a look at the characters for different months:

Code

Year

A

January

B

February

C

March

D

April

E

May

F

June

G

July

H

August

J

September

K

October

N

November

P

December

For instance, if your vehicle’s VIN is MAT61426ANPK75578, then the 10th character, which in this case is N, represents the year of manufacturing. The 12th character, which is K in this case, represents the month of manufacturing. Hence, the vehicle with the VIN number MAT61426ANPK75578 was manufactured in October 2022.

Tata VIN Number

VIN Number Location On Tata Cars

The placement of VIN number varies from car to car and from one manufacturer to the other. In most Tata cars, you can locate the VIN number placement on the driver side door.

Here are the other possible placements of VIN number in different make and models:

  • Under the front windscreen
  • Under the front grille
  • Under driver side door
  • Inside the engine bay
  • Beneath the spare wheel in boot

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6 Comments

  1. N NITIN KUMAR says:
    May 11 2023 18:10:32

    Very informative thanks for the post

  2. P Peter says:
    June 29 2023 01:27:18

    My Tata truck vin number is MAT39932247R05742 How can I determine the year model from this number please

  3. s stany pinto says:
    December 10 2023 12:54:40

    Good morning. in Jeep compass 4x2 new, how to find out the month and year of manufacturing? for example, the VIN No. MCANJPCY5RFB05736*AP Thanks.

  4. A A N Prem says:
    January 21 2024 16:23:43

    Thanks for information

  5. A A N Prem says:
    January 21 2024 16:23:48

    Thanks for information

  6. J John says:
    January 22 2024 11:58:48

    Will you decode the EV motor Number KTZ32 X40SO6ZK *23042402* of Tata Nexon ev car

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