Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) generator

Last modified: April 3, 2025

The Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) generator creates unique codes used to identify individual motor vehicles. A VIN is a 17-character string that contains information about the vehicle’s manufacturer, model, engine type, place of manufacture, and year of production.

Generator properties

The table provides key details about the generator, including the short name, sample of the generated data, the supported data types, and whether it is specific to a particular country.

Short name	Example of generated data	Data type matching	Country-specific
VIN	2G1CW57118F209458, JN8AF5MR88W523949, …	character varyingcharactertext	Default

Matching rules

The generator can be assigned to a column that matches any of the following rules:

• The column name is ‘VIN’, regardless of the table name.
• The column name starts with ‘VIN’ and then goes ‘num’, preceded or followed by any or no characters, regardless of the table name.

Configure additional options

The tool allows you to specify a separator between groups of digits. By default, a hyphen is used to separate the digits.

Preview of the column data generated by the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) generator