'Summary': 'General Motors LLC (GM) is recalling certain 2018 Chevrolet Sonic vehicles. 'ValveTrainDesign': 'Dual Overhead Cam (DOHC)', 'SteeringLocation': 'Left Hand Drive (LHD)', 'SemiautomaticHeadlampBeamSwitching': 'Standard', 'FuelInjectionType': 'Multipoint Fuel Injection (MPFI)', 'Bod圜lass': 'Hatchback/Liftback/Notchback', 'AdditionalErrorText': 'Unused position(s): 7 ', 'ActiveSafetySysNote': 'Rear Park Assist (with only Rear Sonar Sensors): Optional Hill Start Assist', #make get request to '/vinDecode' endpoint #vehicle data and any available recall information #Here we submit a vin for decoding to retrieve the Sold in mid Febuary with about 36k miles at an ask price of $11,500. That it was later put up for sale again in mid January 2020 as a Certified Pre Owned (CPO) vehicle with an original ask price of $14,750 and We can also go further and use the vehicle history endpoint to see that it first sold in midĪugust 2018 with an MSRP of $20,885 and ask price of $13,885,

Not used for the model year field, so we would skip those too if we got to them. 'U', 'Z', and the number '0' can appear in a VIN, but they are The letters 'I', 'O', and 'Q' are not used in VINs, so we skip those when we say the alphabet. To determine the year weĬan look up the value in a table to see that 'J' corresponds to 2018, or we could also just say the alphabet from 'A' (2010) until we get to 'J'.

The first character '1' tells us the country of origin is the US and the next two ('G1') tell us it is a Chevrolet passenger car. We can still do a little decoding by just looking at the vin however. That GM issued a recall notice for some 2018 Sonics on to fix a weld affecting the safety of the driver's seat. The North American format VIN has 6 sections that identify the manufacturer, country of origin, vehicle attributes, the model year, the production plant,Īs we'll see when we make a vin lookup API request, the above VIN corresponds to a 2018 Chevrolet Sonic LT that was built in Orion Michigan. A Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) is a 17 digit serial number that uniquely identifies a specific vehicle and generally identifies specific features on it.

Vin info api