Top Bid relies on the experience and judgment of its analysts and other professionals in the business to verify information long in the public domain. When possible the results will contain links to relevant part searches. The information is based on data available to the NHTSA.
Many manufacturers in this Serial Number Guide are no longer in business and therefore cannot be contacted. We can help you to identify some of the components that are on your vehicle.
The notes shown for these manufacturers will clearly explain how to interpret serial numbers. Top Bid’s staff has gone to great lengths to contact manufacturers and verify their codes and formats. A = 1987, B = 1988, etc.) or several digits to note a month and year (e.g. Examples of these may be the use of a letter to indicate a year (e.g. These last six digits are used to identify a specific vehicle within the border Year/Make/Model class. The plant in which the vehicle was manufactured. Must sometimes be read with postion 7 in the VIN, in order to make an accurate determination. There are many manufacturers of equipment, past and present, that embed codes or use unique combinations of numbers in particular places in the serial number string to designate the year of manufacture. Indicates the model year of the vehicle (e.g. In these cases our team of analysts uses UCC filings to determine the most accurate cutoff points possible. In some cases, because of the system a manufacturer may use to assign numbers, it is necessary to assign an arbitrary cutoff to the range of numbers for a given year. Serial Number Location for Volvo Excavator. Numbers are listed lowest to highest for known numbers assigned to machines in each given year.
The format of the Serial Number Guide follows the standard practice of listing serial numbers either by a machine’s make and model (and in some cases, Caterpillar being one, by serial number prefix) or by its manufacturer only when one set of numbers covers all categories and all models in a product line. Some of the inputs include the package code, installed equipment, options codes, and OEM Model Number. The good ones will also deliver extra information they have about the car and its configuration. The use of this exclusive source of information makes this Serial Number Guide the most comprehensive resource available. A commercially-available Volvo vehicle identification number decoder obtains the information encoded in the VIN Squish or VIN Pattern. Also, an extraordinary effort has been made to verify, categorize and interpret serial number data from several million records of UCC filings.