2018 Kia Niro KNDCD3LD-J — all VINs
259 vehicles carry this factory build. Cars are filed by a fixed rule based on the VIN, so a car never moves between groups.
What KNDCD3LD-J means
- KND
- the World Manufacturer Identifier Kia registered — assembled in South Korea
- CD3LD
- together encode the Niro line — Sport Utility Vehicle [SUV], 1.6L 4cyl — as Kia filed it, these five characters are read as one block, not letter by letter
- J
- in position 10 — model year 2018
- 9, 11–17
- vehicle-specific fields: check digit, plant code and production sequence
Groups
Too many vehicles to list on one page, so they are split by the next character of a fixed code derived from the VIN. Each group keeps its cars for good.