1.2. Passport data

Identification number (VIN) of the car, engine model, the name of manufacturer, year of release and information on certification are specified in an identification sticker …
… located from below doors of the forward passenger are resistant.

Fig. 1.5. Identification sticker: 1 – manufacturer; 2 – number of approval like the vehicle of Russia; 3 – identification number of the car; 4 – full admissible mass of the car; 5 – the full admissible mass of the car with the trailer; 6 – a permissible load on a forward axis of the car; 7 – a permissible load on a back axis of the car

In fig. 1.5 all data on the car provided in an identification sticker are shown.
Identification number of the car is put with a branding on a support of a damping rack from the passenger.
… also it is duplicated in the left lower part of glass of a wind window.
Interpretation of identification number, for example WFOUXXGAJU7L00000:
WFO — the international code of manufacturer;
U — body type;
XX \constant;
G — the manufacturing country;
A — a code of the assembly plant;
J — a model range (Fusion);
U — body type;
7 – year of release (tab. 1.3);

Table 1.3 Code of Model Year of Release of the Car

Note
Model year is the period, on average equal to calendar year during which release cars with identical constructive signs.

L — month of release (tab. 1.4);

Table 1.4 Code of Model Month of Release of the Car

00000 – serial number of a body.
The model and number of the engine are beaten out on inflow of the block of cylinders in its left forward part (near the transmission).