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Volvotechinfo.com: VIN Decoder. VIN: 2009 and earlier. This vin decoder is for reference only, all information is subject to change. Site Map Contact Us. These VIN number decoding and designation is used primarily only for the North American Market. European and other Asian markets use another nomenclature systems. Volvo Car Corporation is a registered Swedish based company that was headed by parent group FoMoCo PAG until 2010 when Ford Motor Company sold it to Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd.
This information will help you to understand the information on the VIN plate of your Volvo car.
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Here are some other VIN number decoder examples that go back pre 1974. They may not apply to all cars for all markets.
Version Identification Code (VIC) Decoders
These may not apply to all cars for all markets
Some anomalies
During the early 1960's the export of cars like the PV544 and Amazons were large and for tax reasons and to keep up production models were exported in unfinished form; bit like a kit car. it was more profitable to assemble the cars in the other country.
The first foreign assembly plants producing Volvo cars were in Chile and in South Africa. Their existance was the result of initiatives from the local importer and not from Volvo. The plants in Chile and South Africa were without ownership from Volvo, and in South Africa cars of other brands were also assembled. Later in the 1960s, fully Volvo owned assembly plants were opened in Canada, Malaysia and in Belgium.
These 'kit cars' were known as CKDs (completely knocked down) units. Not all the component parts were shipped and some parts were sourced locally in the country of assembly.
Around the mid 1960's the digit 9 was added to the Type designation and referred to cars assembled abroad. and the VIN number often did not follow the normal style.
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Example: An error of one year for a Caterpillar 320CL Excavator, serial number PAB04968, changes the value by $7,759:
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YEAR | VALUE | |
Top Bid | 2005 | $86,192 |
Competitor Data | 2006 | $93,951 |
Amount Overpaid | $7,759 (9%) |
*Notes: Year of manufacture data sourced from Top Bid’s Serial Number Guide and a competitor’s guide. Value data sourced from one year of auction results based on Top Bid’s Price Reference Guide.
Validate the year of manufacture to ensure a reliable value. Avoid paying too much for used construction equipment or not asking enough when selling your current equipment. An error of just one model year (2005 vs. 2006, for example) can change the price by thousands of dollars.
The Serial Number Guide is the leading source for year-of-manufacture data on all major and hard-to-find construction equipment. This means you get over 50 years of serial number information from more than 585 manufacturers representing over 100 equipment types in construction, forestry, paving, material handling and aggregate industries – FAST! The guide also includes over 15,000 models with shipping dimensions. The Serial Number Guide is available in three formats:
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The Serial Number Guide Mobile App is the best way to access serial number data in the field since it is able to function offline. The app is available for both iOS and Android platforms. Click here to read more and download the app.
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The Online Serial Number Guide provides the most user-friendly searches and instant access to updates (test drive).
Top Bid publishes the Serial Number Guide annually. Each year new models are added and other revisions made (See sample).
This authoritative reference has been compiled with the cooperation of almost every significant manufacturer of construction equipment and ancillary products.
Also, an extraordinary effort has been made to verify, categorize and interpret serial number data from several million records of UCC filings. The use of this exclusive source of information makes this Serial Number Guide the most comprehensive resource available. The format of the Serial Number Guide follows the standard practice of listing serial numbers either by a machine’s make and model (and in some cases, Caterpillar being one, by serial number prefix) or by its manufacturer only when one set of numbers covers all categories and all models in a product line. Numbers are listed lowest to highest for known numbers assigned to machines in each given year. In some cases, because of the system a manufacturer may use to assign numbers, it is necessary to assign an arbitrary cutoff to the range of numbers for a given year. In these cases our team of analysts uses UCC filings to determine the most accurate cutoff points possible.
There are many manufacturers of equipment, past and present, that embed codes or use unique combinations of numbers in particular places in the serial number string to designate the year of manufacture. Examples of these may be the use of a letter to indicate a year (e.g. A = 1987, B = 1988, etc.) or several digits to note a month and year (e.g. 1092 = October 1992). Top Bid’s staff has gone to great lengths to contact manufacturers and verify their codes and formats. The notes shown for these manufacturers will clearly explain how to interpret serial numbers. Many manufacturers in this Serial Number Guide are no longer in business and therefore cannot be contacted. Top Bid relies on the experience and judgment of its analysts and other professionals in the business to verify information long in the public domain.