SpareRadar Nissan Micra GCC spec check

Nissan Micra and March: reading the VIN

Three generations under two names, and one chassis code that is also sold here as a Sunny hatchback.

Runs the free GCC spec check on your own vehicle. Nothing is stored against your name.
Is a Nissan Micra 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.

Position 10 is a destination code on this car. U covers Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, A is Australia and general export, and Z is the rest of the world. U is the value a Gulf car carries, and because it also covers Europe it narrows the answer without settling it.

What this decoder reads from a Nissan Micra VIN
Specific to this model, not to the brand.

The K13 is the row that shows why this decoder reports every name a chassis was sold under instead of choosing one. It is a Micra in Europe, a March in Japan and a Sunny hatchback in parts of this region, all from the same code at positions 7 to 9. A decoder that picked a single name would be wrong for most of its readers, and one that picked the local name would be wrong for a grey import. Listing them is not indecision, it is the accurate answer. The K12 runs from 2002, the K13 from 2010 and the K14 from 2016.

Codes this decoder resolves
Chassis codes the decoder resolves.
CodeModelChassisBodyEngineBuilt
K12Micra / MarchK12HATCHBACK2002-2010
K13Micra / March / Sunny hatchK13HATCHBACK2010-2016
K14MicraK14HATCHBACK2016-2023
How a Nissan VIN is laid out
Summary. The full explanation of each position is on the Nissan page.
7 to 9
The chassis code, spelled out literally
9
Not a check digit on the export layout
10
A destination code, not a model year
What the VIN cannot tell you here
Stated because a decoder that never says this is not worth trusting.
  • No model year on the export layout.
  • No engine and no trim.

A VIN describes how a vehicle was built. It cannot describe where it was shipped, and no decoder anywhere changes that. The free GCC spec check reads your VIN, gives a verdict with a certainty score and the evidence behind it, and lists the physical and documentary checks that settle what the VIN cannot, starting with the GSO conformity lookup. The full VIN decoder returns every attribute the decode resolves, and the Nissan page explains the scheme above position by position.

Common questions

Does a Micra VIN show the model year?

Not on the export layout. Position 10, which is the model year on an American car, is a destination code on an export Nissan: U for Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, A for Australia and general export, and Z for the rest of the world. A 2003 and a 2012 car can carry the same letter. The model year lives on the chassis plate and in Nissan's own build records, not in the VIN.

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