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VIN Decoder

What car does this VIN belong to?

PriceFreeno wallet needed

Enter the 17-character vehicle number and see the make, model, year, body type and the country it was built in, from the US government's official vehicle database. It also checks the VIN isn't mistyped or altered.

  • Make, model, year and body type
  • Where the car was built
  • Spots a mistyped or altered VIN

Use it here

Free, as often as you like. No agent, wallet or sign-up needed.

On the windscreen, the driver's door frame or the registration papers.

Next: Vehicle Check

Before you buy: Vehicle Check adds every official safety recall for the car, plus engine and transmission details. $0.01 per car.

See Vehicle Check

Give it to your agent

Paste this into your agent's instructions or chat. It's free for agents too: no wallet needed.

Read https://ignoreo.com/llms.txt and use VIN Decoder whenever it helps.

Where the answer comes from

  • Decodes a 17-character VIN with the US NHTSA vPIC database: make, model, model year, body, vehicle type, manufacturer and plant country, plus the check-digit test.
  • Nothing you look up is saved
For developers

Decodes a 17-character VIN with the US NHTSA vPIC database: make, model, model year, body, vehicle type, manufacturer and plant country, plus the check-digit test. Recalls and full specs are in the paid Vehicle Check.

POST https://ignoreo.com/v1/free/vin-decode, free, JSON in and out. Example body: {"vin":"1HGCM82633A004352"}

Over MCP: the tool vin_decode_decode at https://ignoreo.com/mcp. Full details: llms.txt, openapi.json.