Technical VIN Decoder?
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Technical VIN Decoder?
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What information are you wanting about the van and what year is it?
What information are you wanting about the van and what year is it?
Its an X2/90 Euro 6 C1 first registered this month, and has components with manufacturing labels of December 2020.
There are online VIN decoders - where you put in the VIN number and it gives you manufacturers information on the van.
But the one I found identifies it as a different Ducato with a build date of 1994.
There are online VIN decoders - where you put in the VIN number and it gives you manufacturers information on the van.
But the one I found identifies it as a different Ducato with a build date of 1994.
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There is very little useful information in Fiat VINs, and even less for the Ducato.
Unless it has changed recently (I haven't logged on for a while) you will get a lot more information registering your vehicle on the MyDucato section of https://www.fiatcamper.com/
I was able to print off a build sheet for my van including options and trim levels.
Unless it has changed recently (I haven't logged on for a while) you will get a lot more information registering your vehicle on the MyDucato section of https://www.fiatcamper.com/
I was able to print off a build sheet for my van including options and trim levels.
Looks Great, but keeps saying VIN incorrect or belongs to a vehicle manufactured before 2005 or (something else I can't read because its obscured by the 'confirm' button)
I have double checked the VIN on the V5, under the windscreen and driver's footwell Windscreen gives OOOO0 (4 letter O's and a zero) wheras the V5 and footwell gives 00000 (5 zeros) I have tried entering both.
Van bought new from a FIAT Main dealer so I am not suspecting fraud.
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There are no letter O's or I's in a VIN. All such apparent characters are either zeros or ones. The VIN should start ZFA2500000 (so five "zeros") followed by a numeric digit, a letter and five numeric digits, or seven numeric digits without a letter. The total number of characters must be 17.
Most X290 VINs still start ZFA250, but I think some of the newer variants do now use ZFA290nnn...
All a Ducato VIN will tell you is that the vehicle as manufactured by Fiat Italy, it is a Ducato, model X250 (which the factory still use for most X290 VINs as above) and its 7-digit sequential production number, which in many cases now includes a single letter denoting the model year of production. There is nothing else that can be established from the VIN at all, despite what some generic VIN decoder sites might claim (most of which are US oriented anyway). The only way to determine anything else from the VIN is to enter it into Fiat's own database where it cross references to the build specification.
So ZFA = Fiat Italy
250 = model X250/X290
0000 = constant filler - no meaning
nAnnnnn = sequential production number, wher A may denote the model year.
Most X290 VINs still start ZFA250, but I think some of the newer variants do now use ZFA290nnn...
All a Ducato VIN will tell you is that the vehicle as manufactured by Fiat Italy, it is a Ducato, model X250 (which the factory still use for most X290 VINs as above) and its 7-digit sequential production number, which in many cases now includes a single letter denoting the model year of production. There is nothing else that can be established from the VIN at all, despite what some generic VIN decoder sites might claim (most of which are US oriented anyway). The only way to determine anything else from the VIN is to enter it into Fiat's own database where it cross references to the build specification.
So ZFA = Fiat Italy
250 = model X250/X290
0000 = constant filler - no meaning
nAnnnnn = sequential production number, wher A may denote the model year.
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