Car make · South Korea · 1999–2000

Daewoo VIN Decoder

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

Daewoo

MAKE DATA

Country: South KoreaFrom the WMI codes below
WMI: KLA1 maker code in our patterns
Models: 3 VIN patterns listed below
Years: 1999–2000Sample years in the table
Check digit: North American, position 9

/daewoo-vin-decoder

01About

About Daewoo

Lengthy the 2nd-biggest business conglomerate in Korea after Hyundai, the Daewoo Group was damaged up into separate companies within the wake of common industrial restructuring in Korea throughout 1999. Daewoo has lengthy been GM's partner within the Korean market, and GM bought Daewoo Motor Ltd in 2001, developing a company now referred to as GM Daewoo.

Following the Daewoo Group acquired control in 1982 the title was transformed to Daewoo Motor. In early the nineteen nineties the organization began to grow heavily around the world. Until 1996 all cars were according to models from Vehicle. Following the Asian economic crisis began in 1997, it required within the troubled jeep specialist SsangYong in 1998, but went into financial trouble in 1999.

Now GM Daewoo develops assorted small cars for a number of GM divisions, particularly Chevrolet and Suzuki within the U.S. Daewoo has additionally become GM's outpost around the doorstep of China, the house of probably the most important styling galleries in GM's worldwide system.

GM Daewoo Auto & Technology (GM Daewoo or GMDAT) was initially established as National Motor in 1937 in Bupyeong-gu, Incheon, Columbia. After altering its title to Saenara Motor in 1962, Saenara Motor was bought by Shinjin Industrial in 1965, which transformed its title to Shinjin Motor after creating collaborations with Toyota. After Toyota's withdrawal in 1972, Shinjin Motor began a partnership with Vehicle underneath the title Vehicle Korea, but was re-named again in 1976 to Saehan Motor.

02Models

Daewoo 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.

Daewoo models Lanos to Nubira
Model	Year	VIN pattern
Lanos	1999	`KLATC526·XB`
Leganza	2000	`KLAVA692·YB`
Nubira	1999	`KLAJB52Z·XK`

KLA maker code (WMI) · TC526 vehicle descriptor · X model-year code · B plant code. The check digit (position 9) sits where the dot is.

03Location

Where to find a Daewoo 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 Daewoo VIN breaks down

The 2000 Leganza pattern from the table, KLAVA692·YB, position by position. A VIN has 17 characters and never uses I, O or Q.

2000 Daewoo Leganza · VIN pattern? = check digit · # = serial

1–3 · WMIMaker & countryKLA · Daewoo, South Korea

4–8 · VDSModel, body, engineVA692 · Leganza

9CheckCalc.

10YearY · 2000

11PlantB

12–17 · SerialUnique to this vehicleNot in the pattern

WMI · 1–3KLA for South Korea.

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 · 10Y is 2000 here. In the table, X is 1999.

PLANT · 11The factory that assembled the car.

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

05API

Decode Daewoo 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
BASIC $0, PRO $69, ULTRA $99 a month, billed by RapidAPI

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

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