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Kawasaki Motorcycle VIN Check

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

  • 17 characters
  • No I, O or Q
  • Check digit

Kawasaki

BRAND DATA
Models
59 models listed below
Check digit
North American, position 9
VIN location
Steering neckPlus a sticker on the frame

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01About

About Kawasaki

The Kawasaki Company began in 1896 by Shozo Kawasaki like a shipyard intended for building oceangoing steel ships. At the start they built marine steam turbines, locomotives, freight cars, passenger carriages and bridge girders. In 1918 the Aircraft Department is made after prolonged research Kawasaki works in building Japan's first metal aircraft. Then came 1949 plus they switched for thmotorcyclees industry by looking into making engines suited to motorcycles.

Kawasaki arrived on the scene using their first bike in 1954, known as Meihatsu. This bike had Kawasaki's own KB-5 engine as well as an enhanced type of the Meihatsu has been around since 1956.

Through the years, Kawasaki also did good in motorsports, factor which assisted them sell their bikes. Their first motorsports victories were acquired by Dork Simmons within the FIM World Road Racing 125cc Championship. He won free airline German and also the Isle of Mann TT races and also the series championship riding a KR-1. Then came 1981 and Kawasaki won the manufacturer's title within the FIM World Road Racing 250cc Championship, thanks to A. Mang who had been riding the KR250. Kawasaki's noticably win within their motorsports history was the Le guys 24-Hour Race in 1983. The model which participated for the reason that race was the ZXR-7.

02Models

Kawasaki models

The Kawasaki models on file. Every one carries a 17-character VIN that the decoder reads.

  • Balius
  • Bayou
  • BJ Estrella
  • Brute Force
  • Eliminator
  • ER
  • ER 5
  • ER-6f
  • ER-6n
  • EX 400R
  • GPX
  • GPZ
  • GTR
  • GTR 1400
  • KDX
  • KE 125
  • KFX
  • KL
  • KLE 500
  • KLR 650
  • KLX
  • KLX 110
  • KLX 125
  • KLX 250S
  • KLX 450 R
  • KVF
  • KX
  • KX 65
  • KX 85
  • KX 250 F
  • KX 450 F
  • Mule
  • Ninja
  • Ninja 250 R
  • Ninja 500R
  • Ninja 650R
  • Ninja ZX-6R
  • Ninja ZX-9R
  • Ninja ZX-10R
  • Ninja ZX-12R
  • Ninja ZX-14R
  • Prairie
  • Triple
  • Versys
  • VN 900 Custom
  • Vulcan
  • Vulcan 900 Classic
  • Vulcan 900 Classic LT
  • W 650
  • W 800
  • Z
  • Z 1000
  • Zephyr
  • ZR
  • ZR-X
  • ZX-R
  • ZZR
  • ZZR 1400
  • ZZR-X
03Location
A motorcycle from the side: the VIN is stamped on the steering neck, the frame tube at the top of the forks (01), and a VIN sticker sits on the frame near the engine (02).01 NECK02 FRAME

Where to find a Kawasaki VIN

  1. Steering neckStamped into the frame tube the forks turn in. Turn the bars to one side to see it.
  2. Frame stickerA VIN sticker or plate on the frame, often on the down tube or near the engine mounts. The engine number on the cases is not the VIN.
  3. PaperworkTitle, registration and insurance card all carry the full VIN.
04Breakdown

How a Kawasaki VIN breaks down

Every motorcycle VIN since 1981 has the same 17 positions. A VIN never uses I, O or Q.

Kawasaki VIN · position by position? = check digit · # = serial
1–3 · WMIMaker & countryMaker & country
4–8 · VDSModel, body, engineModel, engine
9CheckCalc.
10YearYear code
11PlantFactory
12–17 · SerialUnique to this vehicleSerial number
WMI · 1–3The maker and the country it built the motorcycle in.
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 · 10A letter or digit; the code repeats every 30 years, so C is 1982 or 2012.
PLANT · 11The factory that assembled the motorcycle.
SERIAL · 12–17Unique to each vehicle.
05API

Decode Kawasaki VINs in your app

  • 22 fields per decode: year, model, trim, engine, and more
  • Salvage checks and US plate lookups on the same key
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GET/v2.0/decode_vin
import os, requests

r = requests.get(
    "https://vindecoder.p.rapidapi.com/v2.0/decode_vin",
    params={"vin": "<Kawasaki 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"] …
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