Everyone working in the automotive industry needs a basic understanding of identifying vehicles. A VIN allows you to do just that. It’s a unique set of numbers that you’ll find on everything from service and body shop records, history reports, titles, insurance documents and more. If you are working with any of these processes, you can cross-reference using the VIN.

Now that you know what’s behind a VIN, check out these links to explore even more:

Simple VIN decoding tool: vindecipher.com/omnivin
Random VIN generator: randomvin.com
NHTSA VIN decoder: vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov/decoder