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coughlanb · 11-14-2009, 06:14 AM

I was just wondering what year the letters stand for???

Shonsay · 11-14-2009, 06:56 AM

It depends whether it is an older car or not. cars older than abot 2 yrs or so have the first 2 letters of the registration showing the area the car was registered in. For cars older than this the first letter of the reg denotes the year of registration e.g an S-reg is the year 2000

mysterytome956 · 11-14-2009, 08:54 AM

Every number in every vehicle idenitification number (VIN) has a meaning, that can be decoded. Get the complete VIN from the registration or the vehicle itself and run it through a decoding program such as http://www.vehicleidentificationnumber.com/vehicle_identification_numbers_vin_decoding.html

Wildhoney · 11-14-2009, 09:20 AM

In the new style versions, e.g MN52, the first number stands for whether it was registered in the first half of the year or the latter.............so cars with 02 would be from the first half of 2002 and 52 cars would be from the second half of 2002.

In the older system, the letters followed a similiiar system. A good idea is to have one letter for reference.......say you take the letter N, which is latter half of 1996, therefore an L- reg car would be late 1995 and a P-reg car would be early 1997. Certain letters are not included though, like O because it can be confused with zero and Q because thats exclusively for Kit cars.

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coughlanb Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 1	how do you know what year an english car is from the registration???? I was just wondering what year the letters stand for???

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11-14-2009, 06:56 AM	#2
Shonsay Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 1	It depends whether it is an older car or not. cars older than abot 2 yrs or so have the first 2 letters of the registration showing the area the car was registered in. For cars older than this the first letter of the reg denotes the year of registration e.g an S-reg is the year 2000

11-14-2009, 08:54 AM	#3
mysterytome956 Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 1	Every number in every vehicle idenitification number (VIN) has a meaning, that can be decoded. Get the complete VIN from the registration or the vehicle itself and run it through a decoding program such as http://www.vehicleidentificationnumber.com/vehicle_identification_numbers_vin_decoding.html

11-14-2009, 09:20 AM	#4
Wildhoney Junior Member Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 2	In the new style versions, e.g MN52, the first number stands for whether it was registered in the first half of the year or the latter.............so cars with 02 would be from the first half of 2002 and 52 cars would be from the second half of 2002. In the older system, the letters followed a similiiar system. A good idea is to have one letter for reference.......say you take the letter N, which is latter half of 1996, therefore an L- reg car would be late 1995 and a P-reg car would be early 1997. Certain letters are not included though, like O because it can be confused with zero and Q because thats exclusively for Kit cars.

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how do you know what year an english car is from the registration????

how do you know what year an english car is from the registration????