Build Date

[securespark]

Is it easy to find?

 

[Rolfe]

When I picked up my car there were some documents in the glove compartment. The build date was on one of these.

 

[securespark]

Thanks. I've looked through those papers I was given. I was rather hoping it might be accessible via the tablet, but I can't find anything there either.

 

[Ian Key]

You should have had the certificate of conformity in the glove box unless you have a lease car and they've removed it. The build date is near the bottom in the American format.

 

[CooperS]

What I have done in the past when there is no paperwork showing a date, is to look at the stickers on components and wiring. I dont know if they will only be in Chinese but worth a look. The latest dates will give an indication that the car was built relatively soon after that. Thats my theory anyway, based on the ‘just in time’ system.

 

[securespark]

Ian, thank you. I shall look again through all the paperwork I was given.

Cooper, thanks.

I have used your method to ascertain the build date of our outgoing car, the FRV. The seatbelt labels had the latest date of 07/2008.

So the car was built around 17 months before it was registered to us at the very end of November 2009.

 

[CooperS]

Check if there are stickers on the head lights may show something later.

 

[mg4mc]

I never got a certificate in my car

The VIN does not contain the manufacture date either, only the model year.

 

[Kithmo]

It's on the bottom of the phone shelf mat.

 

[securespark]

What is?

 

[Ian Key]

Old bit of chewing gum?

 

[CooperS]

Lord Lucan?

 

[Kithmo]

What is?

The clue is in the title of the OP.

 

[securespark]

I am the OP.

Are you saying the build date is on the charging mat?

 

[Kithmo]

I am the OP.

Are you saying the build date is on the charging mat?

Yes, on the back there's a square graphic table with months and years on it, the build date is indicated by a dot in the corresponding year and month.

 

[ozzrahog]

Yes, on the back there's a square graphic table with months and years on it, the build date is indicated by a dot in the corresponding year and month.

That will just be that date of manufacture of the mat, you'll find the same on most of the other plastic parts

 

[ChrisR]

Not sure if it's different where you are but on the Australian models it's shown on the plaque on the front door frame.

 

[Kithmo]

That will just be that date of manufacture of the mat, you'll find the same on most of the other plastic parts

I know it may not give the exact date, but it tells you that the car was built after that date.
My mat shows Nov 2022 so when I got the car in June 2023 it was no more than 7 months old.

 

[Lillemy]

In my car there was a small label with build date inside the user manual.

 

[siteguru]

We didn't get a user manual in the UK, other than the one built into the car screen / app. (Many of us did though get a Certificate of Conformity and the build date is on that).