2003 Volvo S40 YV1VS295-3 — all VINs
112 vehicles carry this factory build. Cars are filed by a fixed rule based on the VIN, so a car never moves between groups.
What YV1VS295-3 means
- YV1
- the World Manufacturer Identifier Volvo registered — the manufacturer and plant group
- VS295
- together encode the S40 line — Sedan — as Volvo filed it, these five characters are read as one block, not letter by letter
- 3
- in position 10 — model year 2003
- 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.