eXtended Markup Language, a standard for computer-to-computer information transfer.

Vehicle Identification Number Decoder is a software package which can extract manufacturers information coded into the VIN. The standard VIN decoder can extract such information as : Year, Make, Model, Trim, Engine, Transmission, Manufacturer, Country of origin, GVWR if placed into VIN by manufacturer. Some manufacturers do not put all this information into VIN.VinPowerTM is designed and built with the end-user and the developers in mind. Typical End User Application is VINPower Standalone.The developers package contains tools which allow programmers to include VIN Decoding functionality INTO their own software. Samples describe how to utilize the VIN Decoder Software Development Kit into Visual Basic, Delphi, MS Access and other Development tools. Java version of this tool is also available. This way servers running on other than Microsoft OS can utilize this utility on web pages and other Internet based services. Our software development package is used by programmers all over the world. Soon this product line will be extended into platforms like Linux and PDA devices. VinPowerTM has been assembled from thousands of hours of research, engineering, and testing performed by top level programmers and industry experts. VINPower Database is updated periodically and released to subscribers users via email. Our motto is, give the customer a simple to use and understand software product at a reasonable price. We believe we have accomplished this task and hope you will enjoy using our products.

The Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) is composed of 17 characters. The standard was originally defined in ISO Standard 3779 in February of 1977. Then it was revised in 1983. The ISO VIN is designed to identify motor vehicles of all kinds: cars, trucks, busses, motorcycles etc. The Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) contains three major sections: WMI - World Manufacturer Identifier (1,2,3 characters in VIN structure) If the manufacturer builds less than 500 vehicles per year than the third digit is "9". The WMI is described in detail in ISO 3780. VDS - Vehicle Description Section. It contains 6 characters (4th to 9th positions in VIN) and defines vehicle attributes specified by manufacturer. VIS - Vehicle Identifier Section. The last 8 characters of VIN define Year, manufacturer plant and serial (sequential) number of the vehicle.

Data is updated on a daily basis, and is made available through the web service and other tools on a scheduled weekly basis

Our data is sourced OEM direct, and we also use a variety of other tier one sources for various specialty data or media.

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Yes we do, but it is not enabled by default. Please contact sales to let them know of your requirements for this data and we would be happy to enable this on your account. We will need your account name in any communication.

Yes we do, but it is not enabled by default. Please contact sales to let them know of your requirements for this media and we would be happy to enable this on your account, and provide you with the base URL to access it. We will need your account name in any communication.

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