[KuroOkami]

Can someone point me to an updated VIN breaker/explanation/manual decode site?


It's easy enough to put GM VIN decode or decode Chevy VIN into a search engine (I know, I did), but after reading through a number of them, I could not find one that was updated enough to explain our VIN numbers. This info must be somewhere because if you use one of the multitude of automatic VIN decoders, they usually come up with the correct vehicle (not all do though), but I can't find a breakdown explaining all the digits.


There are a number of sites that I am assuming are telling the accurate categories of the various digits, but not all the options.


Example, most sites I find want to list a Camaro (the 4th and fifth digits) as FP, but the current VINs I have seen are FG and that is just not an option. These sites also incorrectly identify the engine (ninth digit) of a Camaro SS as a V6, which is just not the case. And I haven't found any of them that really broke out what the restraint (eighth digit) option actually are.


Anyway, I hope you can see my dilemma. I know what my vehicle is and I can find VIN auto decoders that come up with the correct vehicle and options, but they don't explain what each digit is for. And the pages that try are outdated.