VIN Specification

Data solution with 41 data points to describe a vehicle extensively. Available for various purposes of use to speed up business workflows.

What is VIN Specification about?

The data product contains 41 relevant data points to clearly and broadly describe a vehicle. It bundles vehicle master data, equipment and emissions data for almost every vehicle from 6 Volkswagen Group brands in a comprehensive database. The vehicle data is simply requested via the VIN (vehicle identification number). An answer is made available in seconds in third-party software solutions.

This puts an end to the days of manual data collection and maintenance regarding the provided data points. Business processes can get simplified and accelerated radically.

Your use cases, our solution

VIN Specification solution can cover multiple use cases:

Repair and Maintenance

VIN Specification for Repair & Maintenance helps workshops and damage assessors identify and describe vehicles accurately and in detail – for everything from servicing and maintenance to repairs and damage assessment.

Insurance companies can also benefit by submitting repair-related requests via workshops or assessors, to obtain a more precise statement about the vehicle damage incurred.

Retail & Importer

VIN Specification for Retail & Importer is made for efficient remarketing of vehicles. It significantly streamlines the sales process. Errors can be reduced and costly mistakes during sales can be avoided.

 

 

 

 

Telematic Devices

VIN Specification for Telematic Devices is made for technical configuration of telematics devices. The purpose of providing the data is to fulfil the contract of the agreed online connectivity services between customer and provider of the telematic device.

Fleet

VIN Specification for Fleet is made for efficient fleet management. It radically optimises business processes in fleet management by allowing vehicles to be specified clearly, comprehensively and precisely.

 

VIN Specification

  • provides VIN-specific static vehicle data
  • sourced originally from the included brands
  • high market accuracy
  • excellent data availability
  • reduces manual effort for data inputs and maintenance considerably
  • individual support from our data specialists
  • further data products can be added if required

Available data and features

VIN Specification for Retail & Importer includes OEM vehicle master data, equipment data and emission data. 41 data points are available.


Vehicle master data includes vehicle identification number, brand, brand text, model name, model code, model year, color description chassis/interior/roof, paint number, engine code letter, gearbox code letter and more.

Equipment data comprises 3-digit PR-number to identify equipment features, description of equipment features, gear- and engine codes and more.

Emission data consists of vehicle mass descriptions, energy efficiency classes, fuel consumption, ranges for electric vehicles and CO2 values.

The vehicle data is simply requested via the VIN (vehicle identification number). An answer is made available in seconds directly in third-party software solutions.


Supported companies

  • car dealers who must be car owners
  • management software providers for car dealers who must be car owners
  • sales platforms on behalf of car dealers who must be car owners

 

Notice: Subject of data usage may only be B2B vehicles. Use for personalised vehicles is excluded.


Supported brands and models

The data set supports original data of vehicle models across the product range from 6 Volkswagen Group brands:
Volkswagen Passenger Cars, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Skoda, SEAT, CUPRA, Audi.


Supported markets

Data is available to European customers in:

  • Europe
  • North American Region
  • China

Permitted data usage

The data set is provided to authorized customers only. The scope of the permitted data usage is defined in the contract between the customer and Volkswagen Group Info Services AG.

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