The Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) is your Toyota’s legal identifier, and is applied to your car during production.
Each VIN is unique, and is usually a 17-character code made up of letters and numbers, and reveals important details about your vehicle. As well as containing information on the time and place of your car’s creation, it also contains information about its specification and design.
First introduced in 1954, Vehicle Identification Numbers are an important component in determining the history and identity of a vehicle, particularly when combined with the car’s DVLA licence plate and V5 or V5C documents.
While licence plates can be altered, the car’s VIN remains unchanged, and therefore is the primary identification number for your Toyota.
How to locate your Vehicle Identification Number
In most modern Toyota cars, you’ll find a visible Vehicle Identification Number through a special cut-out at the bottom of the windscreen. Additional VINs are printed on tamper-proof stickers located just inside the shut line of the front nearside door. Earlier models may have a metal plate instead of a sticker.
The VIN is repeated on the vehicle’s chassis, stamped into the metal floor of the car under the right-hand (driver’s side) front seat. It’s usually visible through a small flap, deliberately cut into the vehicle’s carpet.
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Of course, there are some important exceptions to the rule…
These include the four-door Hilux pick-up – in which the tamper-proof sticker is mounted just inside the nearside rear door, and the five-door Aygo – in which it is applied to the body just inside the offside rear door shut.
Decoding your Vehicle Identification Number
Although there are exceptions to the rule, the first three digits of the Vehicle Identification Number usually refer to the country of manufacture, the vehicle maker and the vehicle type.
For example, if you check the first letter of the code, ‘J’ references Japan, ‘S’ references England, while ‘V’ identifies France. Turkey gets an ‘N’, while Thailand and South Africa (where some of our Hilux vehicles are produced) get an ‘M’ and ‘A’ respectively.
The second letter is usually ‘T’, which describes Toyota, the third describes which group of cars (or sometimes which chassis type) the vehicle sits on.
The next six numbers reference the car’s body style, engine and gearbox, while the remaining eight is a combination unique to the car, listing the year the car was made, the factory it was produced in and where it came in the production process.
For more on your VIN, please contact your nearest dealer, or visit toyota.co.uk/mytoyota
Where can I find my VIN? I am based in the UK
Hi Karim,
Details of how to find your VIN can be found in this article.
For further assistance, please contact your Toyota Centre.
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Where can I find my VIN? Toyota corolla 2004/2005
Hi Abdou,
Please contact your Toyota Centre for further assistance.
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Hi,
Please how do I get the VIN number directly trashed to the car. Anytime I try looking for it,it’s always defaulting and won’t respond as expected. Kindly help.
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Hi, thanks for your comment.
We’re not sure what you mean by that exactly.
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Can my Toyota Corolla 1.8 hybrid 71 reg
Pull a lightweight caravan
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Thanks for your comment.
Please provide the full vehicle registration so we can look into this for you.
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I recently purchased a Toyota Yarris Hybrid 2020, registration number LM20YMG.
I could not locate the engine number in the engine bay.
Can you please help?
Hi Clerisha,
Thanks for your question.
The engine number is stamped on the engine block.
Please see Page 648 of your Owner’s Manual for further information on this.
This can be accessed here – https://www.toyota.co.uk/customer/manuals.
Thanks.
Thank you for the reply.
Unfortunately, I could not find out any trace of engine number on the engine block.
Neither is the engine number mentioned in the VIN stamp on the door.
May you please suggest what can be done
Hi Clerisha,
We have sent you an email.
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I bought Toyota Yaris 2016 hybrid . I am unable to find folder option in audio system when plugged usb. it gives me the full list of audio track but not showing me that how to change the folder or what folders are available in usb. please help me to resolve this problem.
Hi Badi-ur,
Thanks for your question.
Our Multimedia and Connectivity Team would be best placed to advise you on this.
You can find them here – https://www.toyota.co.uk/help-centre/connectivity.
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Where is the vin number on a Toyota estima hybrid 2004 import please thanks
Hi Gary, thanks for your comment.
We can’t confirm this as it is not a UK model. Try checking on the engine cover though.
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Toyota UK
I’s E10 ok for Toyota verso
Hi Anthony, thanks for your comment.
E10 should be fine for your Verso but we’d need the reg to confirm.
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Toyota UK
Hi, i bought a CHR, REG No DE69WJD, i found one letter is different in V5C, what should i do now.
Hi, thanks for your question.
We have sent you an email.
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Hi I have a 1988 Hilux MK2 pickup truck could you please tell me all of the vin plate details?
Hi Matilda,
If you are having difficulty finding your VIN, we would recommend contacting your nearest Toyota Centre.
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WHERE DO I FIND 2010 RHD AYGO INDICATOR RELAY LOCATION
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Hi Dave, thanks for your question.
Please provide a Vehicle Registration so that we can look into this.
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EK60XTE
Hi Dave,
The relay is incorporated in the combination meter (Speedo Tachometer).
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