SpareRadar Toyota Land Cruiser 300 GCC spec check

Toyota Land Cruiser 300: reading the VIN

The J300 is the best selling large SUV in this region and it has never been sold in the United States, which is exactly why an ordinary VIN decoder returns almost nothing for it.

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Is a Toyota Land Cruiser 300 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.

The filler 0 at position 10 proves this car was not built to the American model-year rule, because that rule draws from a fixed alphabet that contains no 0. It does not say which non-American market the car went to.

What this decoder reads from a Toyota Land Cruiser 300 VIN
Specific to this model, not to the brand.

On the J300 the whole engine question comes down to one character. Position 5 is A for the F33A-FTV 3.3 V6 turbodiesel and B for the V35A-FTS 3.5 V6 twin-turbo petrol, which is the difference between an FJA300 and a VJA300 and the first thing a parts counter needs to know. Everything else in the descriptor is shared. It is worth noticing what this means for the American reference: the J300 launched in 2021, was never federalised, and so has no filed pattern of any kind. A decoder without a curated table has nothing to fall back on and will name the manufacturer and stop.

Codes this decoder resolves
Descriptors the decoder resolves for the J300.
CodeModelChassisBodyEngineBuilt
JTM AAABJLand Cruiser 300FJA300SUV (5-door wagon)F33A-FTV 3.3 V6 turbodiesel2021-
JTM ABABJLand Cruiser 300VJA300SUV (5-door wagon)V35A-FTS 3.5 V6 twin-turbo petrol2021-
How a Toyota VIN is laid out
Summary. The full explanation of each position is on the Toyota page.
4 to 8
Model and grade descriptor, read together with the WMI
9
A real check digit on modern Toyotas
10
Usually the filler 0, which is not a year
11
Plant
What the VIN cannot tell you here
Stated because a decoder that never says this is not worth trusting.
  • No model year. Position 10 is the filler 0.
  • No trim. GR Sport and the grade ladder are not encoded in the descriptor.

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 Toyota page explains the scheme above position by position.

Common questions

Does a Land Cruiser 300 VIN show the model year?

Not on the export cars this page covers. Position 10, which carries the model year on an American car, is the filler digit 0, and 0 is not a member of the model-year alphabet at all. The decoder returns no year rather than reading the filler as one. The production window shown against each code is a range for the whole variant and is not a statement about your car.

How do I tell a diesel Land Cruiser 300 from the petrol from the VIN?

Position 5. A is the 3.3 litre F33A-FTV V6 turbodiesel and B is the 3.5 litre V35A-FTS twin-turbo petrol. That single character is the difference between the FJA300 and the VJA300 chassis codes.

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