Factory build sheet
2012 Dodge Caliber SXT
Build 1C3CDWDA-C · 2L 4cyl · Front-wheel drive · Hatchback
VIN positions 1 through 8 read 1C3CDWDA and position 10 reads C. Those nine characters define this build. Position 9 and positions 11 through 17 differ on every car.
Every Caliber whose VIN starts 1C3CDWDA and carries C in position 10 left the plant with the same engine, transmission, drivetrain and equipment listed below. We know of 2,010 of them.
- Decoded Jul 7, 2026
- 2,010 known VINs
- 19 listed for sale now
Factory specification
As filed by Dodge with NHTSA for this build. Fields the filing does not record are left out entirely — a missing row means no recorded value, not a missing feature.
Engine
- Displacement
- 2 L
- Cylinders
- 4
- Turbocharged
- No
- Fuel type
- Gasoline
Drivetrain
- Drive type
- Front-wheel drive
Body & chassis
- Body class
- Hatchback/Liftback/Notchback
- NHTSA body type
- PASSENGER CAR
- Doors
- 4
- Series
- PM
- Manufacturer
- FCA US LLC
Weight rating
- GVWR class
- Class 1
- GVWR
- 6,000 lb or less
Gross vehicle weight rating is the loaded ceiling set by the manufacturer, not the car's own weight.
What this build asks today
Asking prices of live dealer listings decoded to this exact configuration — narrower than the trim-level figure, because every car counted here shares the same engine, transmission and drivetrain.
$5,995 median asking price · 19 listings · as of Aug 30, 2026
Too few listings to publish a price range — with 19 cars on the market, the cheapest and the dearest are single cars, not a spread. The median above is what they ask in the middle.
How this VIN pattern is read
A 17-character VIN carries two kinds of information: what was built, and which one it is. This page is the first kind — the nine highlighted positions.
| Positions | Characters | What they encode |
|---|---|---|
| 1–3 | 1C3 | FCA US LLC · World manufacturer identifier |
| 4–8 | CDWDA | Model, body style, engine and restraint system |
| 9 | × | Check digit — computed per vehicle, not part of the build |
| 10 | C | Model year — 2012 |
| 11 | × | Assembly plant |
| 12–17 | ×××××× | Production sequence number, unique to each vehicle |
NHTSA safety ratings
Crash-test results are published per model year and body style, so they cover the 2012 Dodge Caliber as a whole rather than this build alone.
Overall
★★★ ★★ 3 / 5
Frontal crash
★★★★ ★ 4 / 5
Side crash
★★★ ★★ 3 / 5
Rollover
★★★★ ★ 4 / 5
1 recall campaign is recorded for the 2012 Caliber. Recalls are issued per VIN range — check the VIN of the car you are looking at, not the model.
2,010 vehicles carry this build
Every VIN we have decoded to 1C3CDWDA-C shares the specification above.
- 2,010 Known VINs
- 19 Listed for sale now
- 19 Priced listings
- $5,995 Median asking
Cars are filed by a fixed rule based on the VIN, so a car never moves between groups.
Neighboring configurations
Other factory configurations of the Caliber, each with its own build sheet. The set is fixed by the VIN patterns themselves, so it does not shuffle as prices or inventory move.
- 2012 SXT Plus 2L 4-cyl · Hatchback liftback notchback · FWD 208 vehicles
- 2007 SE 2L 4-cyl · Hatchback liftback notchback · FWD 3,245 vehicles · $3,725 median
- 2007 SE 1.8L 4-cyl · Hatchback liftback notchback · FWD 230 vehicles
- 2007 SXT 1.8L 4-cyl · Hatchback liftback notchback · FWD 256 vehicles
- 2007 SXT 2L 4-cyl · Hatchback liftback notchback · FWD 218 vehicles
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Where this data comes from
Specification fields are decoded from the manufacturer's filings in the NHTSA vPIC database, keyed on VIN positions 1–8 and 10. We publish the filed values as they stand and leave out anything the filing does not record.
Prices are asking prices from 19 live dealer listings decoded to this build , last updated August 30, 2026 . They are what sellers ask, not what buyers paid.
Vehicle counts come from the 2,010 VINs of this build we have seen in dealer inventory. They are a sample of the road population, not a production figure.