VIN (Vehicle Identification Number)

[DCPU]

A take off from this thread:

December Builds

Has anyone that has been told they have a December build actually had notification it has gone into production? I signed my contract 6 weeks ago and was told I have a December build but haven't seen any changes in my account....and with only 1 day left in the month I can't see it happening 😅 I...

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And the "first" known customer VIN:

Interesting that the VIN number I have is slightly different:
SC6GN2DB2PFxxxxxx

ive added the x’s to hide the actual production number, but it’s in the first 1000. The letters and numbers all have meaning. My orders is for the diesel variant which may explain some difference . I’m sure someone will know what they all mean..

Google suggests a number of different ways of decoding a VIN, so this one is a starter for 10:

or

where:
WMI = World Manufacturer Identifier
VDS = Vehicle Descriptor Section
VIS = Vehicle Indicator Section

1st guess:

SC6 = Ineos Automotive Ltd
G = Grenadier
N = commercial?
2 = right hand drive?
D = diesel?
B2 = body type?
P = 2023 model year
F = Hambach plant
xxxxxx = sequential number

 

[DCPU]

And a few Grenadier VINs:

 

[Ever Pragmatic]

A take off from this thread:

December Builds

Has anyone that has been told they have a December build actually had notification it has gone into production? I signed my contract 6 weeks ago and was told I have a December build but haven't seen any changes in my account....and with only 1 day left in the month I can't see it happening 😅 I...

www.theineosforum.com

And the "first" known customer VIN:


Google suggests a number of different ways of decoding a VIN, so this one is a starter for 10:
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or
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where:
WMI = World Manufacturer Identifier
VDS = Vehicle Descriptor Section
VIS = Vehicle Indicator Section

1st guess:

SC6 = Ineos Automotive Ltd
G = Grenadier
N = commercial?
2 = right hand drive?
D = diesel?
B2 = body type?
P = 2023 model year
F = Hambach plant
xxxxxx = sequential number

That’s great decoding. Like cracking the ENIGMA….

 

[DCPU]

That’s great decoding. Like cracking the ENIGMA….

It's first guess.

As we get more VINs then we should be able to test more guesses and work out the VDS codes.

Or Ineos could just tell us...

 

[DCPU]

Well I have a second VIN:

SC6GN2DBXPF000xxx

So guess is:
WMI = World Manufacturer Identifier
SC6 = Ineos Automotive Ltd

VDS = Vehicle Descriptor Section
G = Grenadier
N = commercial?
2 = right hand drive?
D = diesel?
BX = body type?

VIS = Vehicle Indicator Section
P = 2023 model year
F = Hambach plant
000xxx = sequential number

 

[Ever Pragmatic]

Well I have a second VIN:

SC6GN2DBXPF000xxx

So guess is:
WMI = World Manufacturer Identifier
SC6 = Ineos Automotive Ltd

VDS = Vehicle Descriptor Section
G = Grenadier
N = commercial?
2 = right hand drive?
D = diesel?
BX = body type?

VIS = Vehicle Indicator Section
P = 2023 model year
F = Hambach plant
000xxx = sequential number

Was it for your own vehicle?

 

[DCPU]

Yes.

 

[DCPU]

Given that the PTO3s that have been photographed have had numbers in the late 400s, early 500s, which from the VIN plates seem to confirm that the sequential numbering runs on from each prototype iteration, then a customer VIN under 1,000 may actually be under 500 in terms of full type approved launch series.

 

[Ever Pragmatic]

Yes.

Not sure if this is of interest but I got a call from Ineos today giving me a shipping date of the 20th of January, and that it’d be in my hands about 10 days later..! If you’re a December build with a vin under 800, you may be close to shipping too. They also said that a software issue has held up deliveries but that they’d got on top of it.

 

[Sebastian]

Not sure if this is of interest but I got a call from Ineos today giving me a shipping date of the 20th of January, and that it’d be in my hands about 10 days later..! If you’re a December build with a vin under 800, you may be close to shipping too. They also said that a software issue has held up deliveries but that they’d got on top of it.

How could this not be of interest?! I think this is great news!! Thanks for sharing

 

[Ever Pragmatic]

How could this not be of interest?! I think this is great news!! Thanks for sharing

Apparently the dealer gets to know about three days before the vehicle arrives with them. I’m keeping my fingers crossed… and wont be sweeping out the garage yet.

 

[rovie]

Apparently the dealer gets to know about three days before the vehicle arrives with them. I’m keeping my fingers crossed… and wont be sweeping out the garage yet.

I have been sweeping my parking space in the garage weekly for half a year.

 

[joejet]

Not sure if this is of interest but I got a call from Ineos today giving me a shipping date of the 20th of January, and that it’d be in my hands about 10 days later..! If you’re a December build with a vin under 800, you may be close to shipping too. They also said that a software issue has held up deliveries but that they’d got on top of it.

Please Please Please let us know what it like to drive on the road as soon as you can, I had a chance off road and was impressed, but want to know noise levels + motorway driving speeds what its like. My build date is Feb.
thanks

 

[Krabby]

After all the waiting (and us Stateside types have at least another year than the ROW), those final three days after the dealer calls and says “it’ll be in xxx afternoon” are going to be the slowest in our automotive lives. There is no chance in hell I’ll be able to sleep the night before. It’s Christmas Eve and I’m 10 again.

 

[Maxwell]

Has anyone else received the VIN of their IG already? I’ve received mine today: SC6GM1DAXPF00xxxx
(Trialmaster, passenger car version with 5 seats, LHD, Diesel, delivered to Germany)

 

[J8hn]

Has anyone else received the VIN of their IG already? I’ve received mine today: SC6GM1DAXPF00XXXX
(Trialmaster, Passenger, LHD, Diesel

Yes - SC6GN@DBOPF000XXX

 

[Maxwell]

Yes - SC6GN@DBOPF000XXX

What version (apart from presumably RHD) is your IG?

 

[J8hn]

What version (apart from presumably RHD) is your IG?

Sorry, VIN should read SC6GN2DBOPF000XXX - RHD 5 seat Station Wagon commercial diesel

 

[Big C]

Mine is SC6GM1AB7PF000689

 

[DCPU]

Has anyone else received the VIN of their IG already? I’ve received mine today: SC6GM1DAXPF00xxxx
(Trialmaster, Passenger, LHD, Diesel)

So guess is:
WMI = World Manufacturer Identifier
SC6 = Ineos Automotive Ltd

VDS = Vehicle Descriptor Section
G = Grenadier
M = passenger (N = commercial)
1 = left hand drive (2 = right hand drive)
D = diesel? (Not had a petrol yet)
AX = body type? (Choices are AX, BX)

VIS = Vehicle Indicator Section
P = 2023 model year
F = Hambach plant
000xxx = sequential number