SpareRadar Nissan Urvan GCC spec check

Nissan Urvan and Caravan: reading the VIN

The Urvan is a working vehicle that stays on the road for decades here, and its VIN spans three generations across nearly forty years.

Runs the free GCC spec check on your own vehicle. Nothing is stored against your name.
Is a Nissan Urvan 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 Urvan VIN
Specific to this model, not to the brand.

The Urvan and Caravan share chassis codes because they are the same vehicle under two names, which is why the decoder reports both rather than picking one. E24 runs from 1986, E25 from 2001 and E26, the NV350, from 2012 to 2024, so on a used van the chassis code is doing real work: the three generations are more than a decade apart each and share very little. Coverage stops at the chassis code on purpose. A Gulf-market E26 has no confirmed VIN in the corpus yet, so nothing beyond the chassis code and body type is asserted for it, and the engine is not claimed at all because the sources list every engine the chassis was ever offered with rather than the one in your van.

Codes this decoder resolves
Chassis codes the decoder resolves.
CodeModelChassisBodyEngineBuilt
E24Urvan / CaravanE24VAN1986-1997
E25Urvan / CaravanE25VAN2001-2012
E26Urvan (NV350)E26VAN2012-2024
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, no roof height, no seat count and no trim.
  • Gulf-market E26 confirmation VINs are still missing from the corpus.

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 Urvan 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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