SpareRadar Infiniti GCC spec check

Infiniti VINs: the same export scheme, a thinner table

Infiniti shares Nissan's VIN structure, and the decoder claims its WMIs, but the chassis-code table behind it was built from Nissan nameplates.

Is a Infiniti GCC spec?

The honest answer, before anything else on this page.

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.

How Infiniti builds a VIN outside America

The scheme, and why a general decoder struggles with it.

Infiniti VINs beginning JNK, JNR and JNX, and the Sunderland-built SJK, are read with the Nissan export rules: chassis code at positions 7 to 9, destination code at position 10, and no check digit to validate.

Being honest about what that means in practice: the 41 chassis codes in the table were harvested against Nissan-badged cars. Where an Infiniti shares a platform code the lookup fires and the answer is right. Where it does not, the VIN resolves make and country and stops. We have not built an Infiniti-specific table and the page says so rather than implying one exists.

Position by position

What each character carries on this maker's cars.

7 to 9

The chassis code, spelled out literally

On an export Nissan these three characters are the chassis code a parts counter works from: Y61, Y62, T32, E26, D23, R51. This is unusually generous, because most makers compress that information into codes you need a table to read.

Not a check digit on the export layout

Position 9 is the last character of the chassis code, the 1 of Y61. Genuine export Nissans therefore fail the mod-11 test as a matter of course, so the decoder does not run it. A site that reports these VINs as invalid is condemning real cars.

A destination code, not a model year

U covers Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, which includes the Gulf. A is Australia and general export. Z is the rest of the world. A 2003 Patrol and a 2012 Qashqai both carry U, nine model years apart, which is why no year can be read here.

World manufacturer identifiers

The first three characters, and the entity behind each. Country is where the vehicle was built, which is not where it was sold.

WMI	Built by	Country of manufacture
JNK	Nissan Motor Company, Ltd	Japan
JNR	Nissan Motor Company, Ltd	Japan
JNX	Nissan Motor Company, Ltd	Japan
SJK	Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd	United Kingdom

What this decoder covers, and what it does not

Coverage claims here trail capability. If it is not listed, it does not resolve.

Make, manufacturer and country from the WMI on every Infiniti. Model where the chassis code is shared with a tabled Nissan platform.

There is no Infiniti-specific chassis-code table. The QX and Q model lines are not separately sourced.

Check a specific Infiniti

The free GCC spec check reads a VIN and gives a verdict with a certainty score and the evidence behind it. The full VIN decoder returns every attribute the decode resolves, with the source of each one.