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.

VIN Specification 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 instantly in third-party software solutions.

With VIN Specification for Repair & Maintenance, business processes can get faster and even more efficient. Moreover it further reduces analogue system breaks. 

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

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

VIN Specification for Repair & Maintenance 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, colour 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.

• Workshops, damage assessors and further companies, who are involved in service, maintenance and repair of vehicles
• Related publishers, software providers and data providers
• Insurance companies, which can make an inquiry for repair purposes via damage assessors or workshops.

• Germany

More markets to follow.

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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