Car make · United Kingdom · 2001–2014

Bentley VIN Decoder

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

Bentley

MAKE DATA

Country: United KingdomFrom the WMI codes below
WMI: SCB1 maker code in our patterns
Models: 15 VIN patterns listed below
Years: 2001–2014Sample years in the table
Check digit: North American, position 9

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01About

About Bentley

The Bentley brand would be to luxury cars what Everest would be to mountain tops. Individuals with purses deep enough to satisfy the six-figure prices from the company's automobiles are treated to towering amounts of refinement and prestige. Bentley coupes and sedans are mainly hands-put together in the uk in the manufacturer's condition-of-the-art Crewe factory. This fusion of old-world craftsmanship with new-world technologies are exactly what the Bentley marque is about.

Bentley was acquired by uniform and 'Bentley Boy' enthusiast Wolf Barnato, who grew to become the brand new who owns the organization in 1925. Regardless of the steady income which was accustomed to stop Bentley Motors from sinking, the truly amazing Depression easily wiped clean any desire to have costly automobiles, departing Bentley poor and disoriented.

The 1990's introduced more distinctive models in to the fold, like the remodeled Continental coupe, new Azure convertible and also the new Arnage sedan, the second changing the dated Mulsanne. In 1998 BMW started delivering engines to both Bentley and Comes-Royce brands. Later that year this relationship produced a conflict when Volkswagen acquired both marques, however the two German car manufacturers arrived at a contract that saw Volkswagen handing over charge of Comes to BMW in 2003, and keep Bentley and also the Crewe factory.

The phrase luxury might have nothing related to the roads but, paradoxically, it may be seen roaming through a few of the least expected places, rims glimmering, wood and chrome finished steel bulk moving quietly through concrete labyrinth passage ways. This is an automobile which goes great with yachts and French Riviera holidays in addition to Nz made of woll pin stripe suits and carefully designed porcelain buttons baked into solid gold.

02Models

Bentley 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.

Bentley models Arnage to Continental GT
Model	Year	VIN pattern
Arnage	2001	`SCBLC31E·1C`
Azure	2002	`SCBZK25E·2C`
Azure T	2010	`SCBDC4BL·AC`
Brooklands	2009	`SCBCC41N·9C`
Continental	2003	`SCBZB25E·3C`
Continental Flying Spur	2007	`SCBBR93W·78`
Continental Flying Spur Speed	2011	`SCBBP9ZA·BC`
Continental GT	2009	`SCBCR73W·9C`

Bentley models Continental GT Speed to Mulsanne
Model	Year	VIN pattern
Continental GT Speed	2008	`SCBCP73W·8C`
Continental GTC	2011	`SCBDR3ZA·BC`
Continental GTC Speed	2010	`SCBDP3ZA·AC`
Continental Supersports	2011	`SCBCU7ZA·BC`
Continental Supersports Convertible	2012	`SCBDU3ZA·CC`
Flying Spur	2014	`SCBEC9ZA·EC`
Mulsanne	2011	`SCBBC637·BC`

SCB maker code (WMI) · LC31E vehicle descriptor · 1 model-year code · C plant code. The check digit (position 9) sits where the dot is.

03Location

Where to find a Bentley 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 Bentley VIN breaks down

The 2014 Flying Spur pattern from the table, SCBEC9ZA·EC, position by position. A VIN has 17 characters and never uses I, O or Q.

2014 Bentley Flying Spur · VIN pattern? = check digit · # = serial

1–3 · WMIMaker & countrySCB · Bentley, United Kingdom

4–8 · VDSModel, body, engineEC9ZA · Flying Spur

9CheckCalc.

10YearE · 2014

11PlantC

12–17 · SerialUnique to this vehicleNot in the pattern

WMI · 1–3SCB for United Kingdom.

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, 1 is 2001 and 2 is 2002.

PLANT · 11The factory that assembled the car.

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

05API

Decode Bentley 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": "<Bentley 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", "<Bentley 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=<Bentley VIN>" \
  -H "X-RapidAPI-Key: $RAPIDAPI_KEY" \
  -H "X-RapidAPI-Host: vindecoder.p.rapidapi.com"

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