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Toyota Land Cruiser 200 Series chassis numbers

The 200 Series VIN begins JTM (Toyota multipurpose vehicle) and, in the Land Cruiser Heritage Museum’s worked example, reads JTMCY7AJ1L4087538 for a 2020 car. [1][2]

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Where to find it

VIN plate at the base of the windscreen, the certification label on the driver’s door pillar, and the stamp on the right-hand chassis rail.

How to read it

1981–today17-character VIN
1–3 world manufacturer identifier: JT3 = Toyota, Japan, multipurpose vehicle (FJ60, FJ62, FJ80, FZJ80, UZJ100); JTE and JTM = Toyota multipurpose vehicles of the 2000s onward (Prado, FJ Cruiser, 200 Series; J8 in Australia-market cars is not used); JTJ = Lexus. 4–8 vehicle descriptor in Toyota’s own coding: body, engine, series and restraint system (FJ60G for the FJ60 wagon, DJ81W for the North American FZJ80, HT05J for the UZJ100, CY7AJ on the 2020 200 Series in the museum’s example) with J = Land Cruiser or Prado as the model line. 9 check digit. 10 model year: B = 1981 or 2011, C = 1982/2012, D = 1983/2013, E = 1984/2014, F = 1985/2015, G = 1986/2016, H = 1987/2017, J = 1988/2018, K = 1989/2019, L = 1990/2020, M = 1991/2021, N = 1992/2022, P = 1993/2023, R = 1994/2024, S = 1995/2025, T = 1996/2026, V = 1997, W = 1998, X = 1999, Y = 2000, 1–9 = 2001–2009, A = 2010 (I, O, Q, U, Z are never used). 11 assembly plant. 12–17 serial.

Prefixes

Prefix or codeMeans
JTMCY7AJ…200 Series (the museum’s example): Y7AJ the 200 wagon, J = Land Cruiser
JTJHY7AX…Lexus LX 570
VDJ200 / UZJ200 / URJ200V8 diesel / 4.7 V8 / 4.6 and 5.7 V8 model codes on the plate

Examples

JTMCY7AJ1L4087538
JTM Toyota Japan multipurpose; CY7AJ the vehicle descriptor with J for Land Cruiser; 1 check digit; L = 2020 model year; 4 assembly plant; 087538 serial (Land Cruiser Heritage Museum).

Sources

  1. 1Toyota Land Cruiser VIN Decoder (pre-1981 frame numbers; 1981–current 17-character VIN)Land Cruiser Heritage Museum, Salt Lake City · accessed 2026-09-22
  2. 2Vehicle identification numberWikipedia · accessed 2026-09-22

The numbers are as the sources cited above record them — the parts trade's frame-number charts, the clubs' transcriptions of the makers' bulletins and the enthusiast decoders; a blank cell means no number is recorded. Registry research, not a factory record — check the vehicle's plate and the maker's build record before relying on a range. Corrections through the suggestion form.