Is this a real VIN?

3TMAZ5CN3GM36A339

http://www.vindecoderz.com/EN/check-lookup/3TMAZ5CN3GM36A339

This one is off a real window sticker

3TMAZ5CN6GM002258

 

No

 

Yes

 

How can you tell?

 

50/50

 

No.

 

No, if it has an alpha character within the last 6 numbers then it is a placeholder VIN . Once all 6 are numbers then it's real.

 

No. The last 6 digits need to be numbers.

Jeff

 

When the dealer was searching for 2015 for me they would print out the window sticker of what was going to be built and the vin always had a letter in the last 6.
Once it is built and shipped the real vin appears.

 

Jeff Lange should be banned for reasons unknown.

 

I've seen VIN's starting with a 5 and so far; all are in the low 1,000 series. Just now have seen some starting at 2,000.

Does Toyota start at 0 or 1 and did they build up to 999 or start at 1,000 for the last 4 numbers?

 

the last 6 numbers denote the sequence number of the model (generation). when a new generation is created the number resets back to 0. test mules, test beds, pre production models never intended for sale also count toward this zero number. so no actual end user model number will never be 1 or in the low hundreds. I am even guessing you wont see a number to end user to be below 1000.

and the number can go up to 999,999, but I don't expect it to get that high during a generation.

 

The other thing to remember is that the number sequence is separate for each chassis code as well as each plant they are produced at. So if they started at 1, there would be a 1 for the GRN305, a 1 for GRN310, a 1 for GRN325 and 1 for GRN330, plus there are 2 factories, so each of those will also have a 1.

Basically for 2016 Tacoma V6's, there would be 8 of them with VIN 1000, etc.

Jeff

 

I stand corrected. thanks for the info.

 

I actually wasn't contradicting you at all! There won't usually be anything near 1 built for sale (just pre-production stuff). You were right about that. My post was just regarding how the numbering works and the sequential numbers are separate for each chassis code and plant code.

Jeff

 

ah no biggie. I thought the sequence number was generated by a master computer that for all the different models. didn't know that each model line had a different counter.

I always thought the sequence number was a running total of a generation.