1.3 VIN breakdown
The individual characters of the VIN have the following meaning:
    Vehicle-describing part Vehicle Differentiator Part
    World Manufacturer Identifier

number

 Model Codes (The construction year may be encoded)
      Manufacturing plant
        Serial number
Example: Character No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
1 Wheeled excavators (A Excavators) W L H Z 0 1 2 3 ? Z K 0 1 0 0 0 1
2 Crawler excavators (R excavators) W L H Z 0 1 2 3 ? Z C 0 1 0 0 0 1
3 Wheel loaders V A T Z 0 1 2 3 ? Z B 0 1 0 0 0 1
4 Crawler tractors/loaders V A U Z 0 1 2 3 ? Z T 0 1 0 0 0 1
    Fixed by the national authorities, e.g. the German KBA                 Serial number
                        Manufacturing plant
                      (The construction year may be encoded)
                    Check number IAW ISO 10261
 
Serial No. 9: Code letter, generated on the basis of the ISO 10261 algorithm
Serial No. 10: Reserved for manufacturing year (in encoded form),
presently taken up by the letter „Z“.
Serial No. 11: Manufacturing plants
A = Smara plant (Algeria, licensee with letter „Y“ from 2009)
B = Bischofshofen plant (Austria/wheeled loaders)
C = Colmar plant (France/tracked excavators)
D = Dalian (China/Crawler and wheeled excavators)
G = Guaratingueta (Brazil/complete product range)
K = Kirchdorf (Germany/wheeled and crawler excavators)
M = Mersin plant (Turkey/wheeled and tracked excavators, licensee with letter „Y“ from 2009)
T = Telfs (Austria/Crawler tractors and loaders)
Y = Licensee (manufacture in non-Liebherr plants in Turkey, Iran, Algeria, etc.)