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Decipher this VIN

Discussion in '3rd Gen. Tacomas (2016-2023)' started by Builder1, Jul 16, 2021.

  1. Jul 16, 2021 at 5:40 AM
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    Builder1

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    3TMCZ5AN4MM29A759

    No problem, this is my temporary VIN, build date 7/26. Is there anything else on here different then that ?

    B 1
     
  2. Jul 16, 2021 at 5:43 AM
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  3. Jul 16, 2021 at 11:56 PM
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    Thanks, you may be right. I placed the order early June. About 4 days later, they gave me this vin. Yesterday the rep advised build date changed to 7/22, and he will send new vin soon. See what happens.
     
  4. Jul 17, 2021 at 12:13 AM
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    Probably gave you a general vin they had as an example. But they are sending you a new VIN of the truck you're actually going to buy.
     
  5. Jul 17, 2021 at 6:16 AM
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    They will give you a temp VIN before it goes in to production. Due to the letter in the middle it is only a temporary VIN. Once built the last 6 will be all numbers. Once your truck is built they will give you the actual VIN for the truck. If I’m not mistaken the 2 numbers before the letter will be the week that truck will be built. As in your case the 29th week of this year which I believe is next week. So a few weeks after that and you should be good.
     
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  6. Jul 17, 2021 at 6:27 AM
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    This is a temporary VIN - pre production. You can tell by the letter in the 4th from last digit.
     
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    Thanks all. What you guys explained, I had read about the letters and digits explaining info. Early June to this month.

    Devious, that 4th from the end is "A".

    You guys may have seen my post on this, I traded our 2018 4X4 4R with 29887 miles on the odo, we are original owners, purchased 4/18, excellent, paid 36445. Dealer gave us 36K for it, and the $500 military, I am not on active duty.

    I was going to wait on the 22's, and decided to see what I could get on trade now. Happy with that, I did not get any special deals on the MSRP.
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  8. Jul 17, 2021 at 6:40 AM
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    Right. The actual VIN will be different and the last 6 digits will all be numbers. My pre-build was 5TFCZ5AN6LX03B179 and the actual is 5TFCZ5AN4LX2260XX.
     
  9. Jul 17, 2021 at 1:11 PM
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    Thanks ! May get this around 8/15.
     
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    and this guy? was supposed to be built today.
     
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