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Old Dec 20, 2022 | 02:29 PM
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How to check vins

Hi, everyone I get the title is checking vins but like I know how mostly just i can't tell if this car is an import or not the vin starts with jm1 so Japan Mazda something right and all the vin checkers online say the plant was in Hiroshima or that it was mazda Japan so that means it's an import right or am I completely off
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Old Dec 20, 2022 | 03:21 PM
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import like its a Japanese market car in the US? or import like it came from Canada?

a north American vin is JM1FC.... a JDM vin is E-FC3S-1xxxxx for an S4 and E-FC3S-2xxxxx for S5. Europe is JMZ

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Old Dec 20, 2022 | 03:55 PM
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Appreciate it

Originally Posted by j9fd3s
import like its a Japanese market car in the US? or import like it came from Canada?

a north American vin is JM1FC.... a JDM vin is E-FC3S-1xxxxx for an S4 and E-FC3S-2xxxxx for S5. Europe is JMZ
Thank you i kept getting different answers every where
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