Car make · United States · Japan · Canada · 1991–2014

Acura VIN Decoder

Enter a Acura VIN to read its model year, model, trim, engine and factory specs. The lamps check the format as you type.

Acura

MAKE DATA

Countries: United States · Japan · CanadaFrom the WMI codes below
WMI: 19U · 19V · JH4 · 2HN · 5J8 · JAE6 maker codes in our patterns
Models: 17 VIN patterns listed below
Years: 1991–2014Sample years in the table
Check digit: North American, position 9

/acura-vin-decoder

01About

About Acura

Acura is definitely an trendy car maker noted for offering cars with impressive amounts of luxury, features and gratifaction. It's advanced significantly very quickly, however, because the good reputation for Acura is comparatively brief. Parent company Honda introduced the Acura brand towards the U.S. market in 1986 in order to produce a separate luxury division because of its items. In the beginning, it had been only a two-vehicle show: the Legend sedan, that was the very first true Japanese luxury vehicle offered in the usa, and also the Integra sport coupe and sedan.

Though basically an advertising and marketing creation for that United States market, the Acura brand was immediately effective. Customers loved the characteristics, performance and trendy picture of Acura cars, together with the truth that Acuras were supported by Honda's status for reliability and occasional possession costs. In 1991, Acura introduced its crown jewel: the all-aluminum NSX sports vehicle, which offered performance near to those of other exotic cars while undercutting them in cost.

By mid-decade the NSX vanished, but Acura completed its model selection using the street-performance-oriented RDX compact crossover, the TSX wagon and also the ZDX, a fastback-styled crossover that placed unique styling over functionality. Today Acura continues to be looking for its ideal niche there is however no denying the standard of Acura's automobiles, nor their appealing mixture of performance, technology and cost.

Although Acura had already handled to integrate the legend of higher Asian automobiles into US consumer minds with the V6-powered Legend sedan and also the sleek, sharp Integra, it had been yet to show all its toolbox. The moment the 90's came, 4 years following the brand had arrived at American territory, it shipped a crushing blow to luxurious-sports vehicle rivals: the NSX. An acronym for a science-fueled fight cry that converted as 'New Sports eXperimental', the NSX rapidly grew to become a less expensive and fun option to pricey European alternatives like the ones shipped by German and Italian producers like BMW and road-cruising and racing supremacists Ferrari.

02Models

Acura VIN patterns

One sample year per model. The pattern is VIN positions 1–8 and 10–11: everything except the check digit and the serial.

Acura models CL to RL
Model	Year	VIN pattern
CL	2003	`19UYA426·3A`
ILX	2013	`19VDE1F3·DE`
ILX Hybrid	2014	`19VDE3F3·EE`
Integra	2000	`JH4DC231·YS`
Legend	1991	`JH4KA816·MC`
MDX	2012	`2HNYD2H2·CH`
NSX	1991	`JH4NA126·MT`
RDX	2008	`5J8TB182·8A`
RL	1998	`JH4KA968·WC`

Acura models RLX to ZDX
Model	Year	VIN pattern
RLX	2014	`JH4KC1F3·EC`
RSX	2003	`JH4DC538·3C`
SLX	1997	`JAEDJ58V·V7`
TL	1996	`JH4UA265·TC`
TSX	2005	`JH4CL969·5C`
TSX Sport Wagon	2012	`JH4CW2H5·CC`
Vigor	1992	`JH4CC254·NC`
ZDX	2010	`2HNYB1H6·AH`

19U maker code (WMI) · YA426 vehicle descriptor · 3 model-year code · A plant code. The check digit (position 9) sits where the dot is.

03Location

Where to find a Acura VIN

Dashboard tagDriver's side, at the base of the windshield. Read it from outside the car.
Door jamb stickerOpen the driver's door and look at the frame.
PaperworkTitle, registration and insurance card all carry the full VIN.

04Breakdown

How a Acura VIN breaks down

The 2014 ILX Hybrid pattern from the table, 19VDE3F3·EE, position by position. A VIN has 17 characters and never uses I, O or Q.

2014 Acura ILX Hybrid · VIN pattern? = check digit · # = serial

1–3 · WMIMaker & country19V · Acura, United States

4–8 · VDSModel, body, engineDE3F3 · ILX Hybrid

9CheckCalc.

10YearE · 2014

11PlantE

12–17 · SerialUnique to this vehicleNot in the pattern

WMI · 1–319U, 19V, 5J8 for United States; JH4, JAE for Japan; 2HN for Canada.

VDS · 4–8Model, body and engine. The decoder turns these into specs.

CHECK · 9Worked out from the other 16 characters. A typo breaks it.

YEAR · 10E is 2014 here. In the table, 3 is 2003 and D is 2013.

PLANT · 11The factory that assembled the car.

SERIAL · 12–17Unique to each vehicle, so it isn't part of the pattern.

05API

Decode Acura VINs in your app

22 fields per decode: year, model, trim, engine, dimensions, mpg, features
Salvage checks and US plate lookups on the same key
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Get API key API docs

GET/v2.0/decode_vin

import os, requests

r = requests.get(
    "https://vindecoder.p.rapidapi.com/v2.0/decode_vin",
    params={"vin": "<Acura VIN>"},
    headers={
        "X-RapidAPI-Key": os.environ["RAPIDAPI_KEY"],
        "X-RapidAPI-Host": "vindecoder.p.rapidapi.com",
    },
    timeout=10,
)
spec = r.json()["specification"]
# spec["year"], spec["model"], spec["engine"] …

const url = new URL("https://vindecoder.p.rapidapi.com/v2.0/decode_vin");
url.searchParams.set("vin", "<Acura VIN>");

const res = await fetch(url, {
  headers: {
    "X-RapidAPI-Key": process.env.RAPIDAPI_KEY,
    "X-RapidAPI-Host": "vindecoder.p.rapidapi.com",
  },
});
const data = await res.json();
if (data.success) console.log(data.specification);

curl -G "https://vindecoder.p.rapidapi.com/v2.0/decode_vin" \
  --data "vin=<Acura VIN>" \
  -H "X-RapidAPI-Key: $RAPIDAPI_KEY" \
  -H "X-RapidAPI-Host: vindecoder.p.rapidapi.com"

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