Also effective today, under the new NHTSA mandate, all major light vehicle and motorcycle manufacturers are required to provide VIN search capability for uncompleted recalls on their own websites.
But help is available. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration provides a handy VIN decoder. When I plugged my vehicle’s VIN into the decoder, the site correctly determined that my SUV is a ...
including the NHTSA VIN Decoder website. In my Miata, JM1 is the World Manufacturer Identifier J for Japan, M for Mazda and 1 ...