SpareRadar Brand index GCC spec check

What a VIN says about a car in the Gulf

A page for each manufacturer scheme and each model this decoder can genuinely read, with the code tables it actually uses and a plain statement of where each one stops.

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GCC specification is decided per vehicle, not per model. Two cars of the same model and the same year, built in the same factory in the same week, can go to different markets. So no page can tell you whether yours is a Gulf car, and this one does not try. What it can do is show you exactly what your own VIN encodes and where that stops.

There is no universal marker in a VIN that means GCC. A handful of manufacturers write a destination field into particular models, and where one exists these pages say so. For everyone else a VIN can usually still prove the negative, that a vehicle was not built for the American market, and that is a genuinely useful but much weaker thing.

Where coverage is strong, and where it is not
Stated up front rather than discovered by a visitor.

Strongest: Toyota and Lexus, Nissan, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and Tesla. These have hand-built manufacturer VIN schemes behind them, sourced from the makers' own filings and from real vehicles, and they resolve model, chassis and often engine on cars the American reference cannot read at all.

Partial: Hyundai, Kia and Honda. Model line resolves on the Korean and Japanese built cars, at lower confidence, and trim generally does not.

Weak, and the page says so: Volkswagen and Audi. A European or Gulf car from either resolves the make and very little else, because the field that identifies it was never filed anywhere this decoder can reach.

Make only: Chinese brands, and everything not listed above. Country, manufacturer and usually make resolve from the first three characters. Model does not.

By manufacturer

Toyota
28 WMIs, 12 model pages
Lexus
2 WMIs, 2 model pages
Nissan
11 WMIs, 12 model pages
Infiniti
4 WMIs, 0 model pages
BMW
6 WMIs, 13 model pages
MINI
1 WMI, 0 model pages
Rolls-Royce
1 WMI, 0 model pages
Mercedes-Benz
24 WMIs, 12 model pages
Porsche
2 WMIs, 5 model pages
Tesla
5 WMIs, 4 model pages
Hyundai
2 WMIs, 0 model pages
Kia
2 WMIs, 0 model pages
Honda
3 WMIs, 0 model pages
Volkswagen
2 WMIs, 0 model pages
Audi
1 WMI, 0 model pages

By model

Toyota Land Cruiser 70
7 code rows
Toyota Land Cruiser 200
6 code rows
Toyota Land Cruiser 300
2 code rows
Toyota Land Cruiser 100
1 code row
Toyota Land Cruiser Prado
6 code rows
Toyota Hilux
2 code rows
Toyota Fortuner
5 code rows
Toyota Hiace
6 code rows
Toyota Coaster
5 code rows
Toyota Camry
2 code rows
Toyota Corolla
2 code rows
Toyota RAV4
2 code rows
Lexus LX
3 code rows
Lexus GX
3 code rows
Nissan Patrol
4 code rows
Nissan X-Trail
4 code rows
Nissan Navara
4 code rows
Nissan Urvan
3 code rows
Nissan Qashqai
2 code rows
Nissan Pathfinder
3 code rows
Nissan Sunny
7 code rows
Nissan Micra
3 code rows
Nissan Maxima
4 code rows
Nissan Tiida
2 code rows
Nissan Murano
2 code rows
Nissan Juke
1 code row
BMW E36 3 Series
20 code rows
BMW E39 5 Series
19 code rows
BMW E46 3 Series
36 code rows
BMW E53 X5
7 code rows
BMW E60 5 Series
22 code rows
BMW E70 X5
4 code rows
BMW E90 3 Series
80 code rows
BMW F10 5 Series
26 code rows
BMW F15 X5
17 code rows
BMW F20 1 Series
14 code rows
BMW F25 X3
17 code rows
BMW F30 3 Series
25 code rows
BMW G30 5 Series
13 code rows
Mercedes-Benz E-Class
7 code rows
Mercedes-Benz C-Class
6 code rows
Mercedes-Benz S-Class
10 code rows
Mercedes-Benz G-Class
3 code rows
Mercedes-Benz GLE and M-Class
5 code rows
Mercedes-Benz GLC
3 code rows
Mercedes-Benz GLA and GLB
3 code rows
Mercedes-Benz A-Class
4 code rows
Mercedes-Benz CLA
2 code rows
Mercedes-Benz SL
5 code rows
Mercedes-Benz Sprinter
8 code rows
Mercedes-Benz Vito and V-Class
3 code rows
Porsche 911
3 code rows
Porsche Cayenne
6 code rows
Porsche Macan
2 code rows
Porsche Panamera
2 code rows
Porsche Taycan
1 code row
Tesla Model 3
6 code rows
Tesla Model Y
5 code rows
Tesla Model S
3 code rows
Tesla Model X
3 code rows

Guides

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