Here's How to Find Your Car's VIN

The table below will help you locate your car's unique DNA - its unique vehicle identification number. VINs are normally located in several locations on a car, but the most common places are:

- On the door frame/door post of the front doors (usually driver's but sometimes passenger's)
- On the dash near the windshield
- On the engine itself (machined pad on front of engine)
- On the car's firewall
- In the left-hand inner wheel arch
- On the steering wheel/steering column
- On the radiator support bracket
- On your car's title, registration, guarantee/maintenance book or on the declarations page of your auto insurance policy

The following chart gives further information (by car line) on both the location of the VIN plate and which character in your VIN represents your year of production and specific engine. We have limited the listings to only import cars since those are the car lines in which Autohaus specializes. Those shown in blue are car makes for which we have extensive parts inventories.

Car Make	Models	Location of VIN Plate	Year* Code	Engine Code
Acura	All	Left side of dash (thru windshield)	10th	See Note A
Audi	All	Left side of dash (thru windshield) Top center of firewall	10th	See Note B
BMW	All	Left side of dash (thru windshield) Right inner fender	10th	See Note A
Daihatsu	All	Left side of dash (thru windshield) Firewall	10th	8th
Honda	All	Left windshield post (thru windshield) Top right of firewall	10th	See Note A
Hyundai	All	Left side of dash (thru windshield)	10th	8th
Infiniti	All	Left side of dash (thru windshield) Firewall	10th	4th
Isuzu	Pickup All others excl. above	Left door post Left side of dash (thru windshield)	10th	8th
Jaguar	All (thru '84) All ('85-On)	Left side of dash (thru windshield) Firewall, Left door post Left side of dash (thru windshield) Firewall, Left door post	10th 10th	5th 8th
Lexus	All	Left side of dash (thru windshield)	10th	4th
Mazda	All	Left side of dash (thru windshield)	10th	See Note A
Mercedes Benz	All (thru '85) All ('86-On)	Left windshield post (thru windshield) Left windshield post (thru windshield)	See Note D 10th	See Note A See Note A
Mitsubishi	All	Left side of dash (thru windshield)	10th	8th
Nissan	Axxess, Van Pickup, Pathfinder 280Z, ZX All others excl. above	Left side of dash (thru windshield) Front left floor panel Left side of dash (thru windshield) Right inner fender Left side of dash (thru windshield) Right strut housing Left side of dash (thru windshield) Firewall	10th 10th 10th 10th	See Note C See Note C See Note C See Note C
Porsche	All	Left windshield post (thru windshield)	10th	See Note A
Rover	NA	NA	NA	NA
Saab	All (thru '83) All ('84-On)	Left side of dash (thru windshield) Left door post, Right inner fender Left side of dash (thru windshield) Left door post, Right inner fender	10th 10th	7th 8th
Subaru	All	Left windshield post (thru windshield)	10th	6th
Suzuki	'86-88 Samurai All others excl. above	Left door post Left side of dash (thru windshield)	10th	6th
Toyota	All	Left side of dash (thru windshield)	10th	4th
VW	Vanagon Dasher, Quantum Fox, Passat, Golf, Jetta, Rabbit, Scirocco	Left side of dash (thru windshield) Right door post Left side of dash (thru windshield) Right inner fender Left side of dash (thru windshield)	10th 10th 10th	See Note B See Note B See Note B
Volvo	240, 260 All others excl. above	Left side of dash (thru windshield) Right inner fender Left side of dash (thru windshield) Right radiator fender	10th 10th	6th, 7th 6th, 7th
Footnotes
Note A	Cannot determine the engine through the VIN code.
Note B	Cannot determine the engine through the VIN code. On certain models for certain years the engine may be determined by the 5th digit.
Note C	Cannot determine the engine through the VIN code. On certain models for certain years the engine may be determined by the 2nd digit.
Note D	Cannot determine the model year through the VIN code.