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2C3CDZBT6HH536214

2017 DODGE Challenger

🌍 Country: Canada  ·  Characters 1–3 (WMI): 2C3
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Vehicle Identity

MakeDODGE
ModelChallenger
TrimR/T
Model Year2017
ManufacturerFCA CANADA INC.
Vehicle TypePASSENGER CAR
Body StyleCoupe
Doors2
Seats5
Plant CountryCANADA
Plant CityBRAMPTON, ONTARIO

Powertrain & Drivetrain

Engine8-cyl · 5.7L · 375 hp
ConfigurationV-Shaped
Valve TrainN/A
Fuel InjectionN/A
Fuel TypeGasoline
ElectrificationN/A
TurboN/A
TransmissionN/A
Drive TypeRWD/Rear-Wheel Drive
Top SpeedN/A

Safety & Driver Assistance

✓ ABS
✓ Electronic Stability (ESC)
✓ Traction Control
✓ Front Airbags
1st Row (Driver and Passenger)
✓ Side Airbags
All Rows
✓ Blind Spot Monitor
Optional
✓ TPMS
Direct
✓ Keyless Ignition
Optional
✓ Daytime Running Lights

⚠ 3 Open Recalls Found

ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:WIRING
Chrysler (FCA US LLC) is recalling certain 2014-2018 Dodge Journey, Charger and Durango, RAM 2500, 3500, 3500 Cab Chassis (more than 10,000lb), 4500 Cab Chassis and 5500 Cab Chassis, Jeep Cherokee and Grand Cherokee and
Reported: 17/05/2018
ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE
Chrysler (FCA US LLC) is recalling certain 2017 Dodge Challenger and Charger vehicles equipped with Hellcat engines. The engine oil cooler (EOC) hoses may fail resulting in a rapid loss of engine oil.
Reported: 08/08/2017
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:CONTROL MODULE (TCM/PCM/TECM)
Chrysler (FCA US LLC) is recalling certain 2017 Dodge Challenger vehicles equipped with 5.7L V8 engines and eight-speed automatic transmissions. The transmission may not remain in the PARK position if that gear is selec
Reported: 07/07/2017
ℹNHTSA data covers factory specifications only

Accident records, title brands (salvage, flood, rebuilt), odometer history, and auction damage reports are held by insurance carriers and state DMV systems — this data is not part of the NHTSA database.

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Free VIN Decoder Data Coverage

The free decoder reads the NHTSA vPIC database, which is where automakers have to report the complete vehicle spec before a model gets approved for sale in the US, and the filing goes down to the individual component level, not just the broad category. A VIN is 17 characters under the ISO 3779 format adopted in 1981, sometimes still called a chassis number in European markets, and the decoder works through it position by position, first three characters identifying the manufacturer and country of origin, four through eight carrying the engine and body and restraint configuration, nine holding the check digit that's calculated from the other sixteen and exists specifically to flag sequences that have been altered or mistyped, and the remaining positions covering model year, which assembly plant the vehicle came out of, and its serial number within that production run. What a decode returns from those positions is the full factory record, make and model and trim and year, assembly plant down to the city, engine displacement and cylinder count and horsepower, fuel type, valve train design, transmission and drive type, and on the safety side the manufacturer's reported airbag layout by zone, braking and stability systems, and whatever driver assist features shipped on that particular build, with hybrids and EVs also returning the electrification category though that field only started showing up consistently in filings from around 2012 onward. Recall records come from a different NHTSA system and get cross referenced by make, model, and year rather than by individual VIN, so what you see after a VIN lookup is every open campaign that applies to that combination, and they stay listed as open until the owner has the repair done at a dealer, free under federal law, regardless of mileage. Larger campaigns sometimes take a few days to show up after the automaker files the report, and the results return the component involved, a description of the defect, and the date it was filed.

Accident History and Title Data

The free decoder runs off NHTSA data, which only covers factory specifications and open recalls, so you get engine type, displacement, airbag configuration, assembly plant, and the rest of the factory build sheet. Accident reports go to insurance carriers, title brands for salvage, rebuilt, flood, and lemon law buybacks run through state DMV systems and eventually into the National Motor Vehicle Title Information System, and odometer flags come from disclosure statements filed at each ownership transfer. The salvage auction operators handle their own damage assessments on whatever passes through their lots, probably three or four million vehicles a year between the major operators. None of those parties reports into the vPIC database, and there's no requirement that would make them start, so a VIN lookup that comes back clean with every field filled in and no recalls could belong to a car that was flooded in Texas and resold with a washed title out of a state with looser branding rules. The full history link after every free decode on this site sends the VIN to carVertical, which checks it against roughly 900 data sources across 28 countries, including all the major US reporting networks and European and Asian registries that the NHTSA system has never had access to.

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Accident records, title brands, odometer history, auction damage — 900+ data sources across 28 countries.

NHTSA Database Accuracy and Coverage

NHTSA vPIC coverage is solid for anything manufactured from the late 1990s onward and sold through authorized US distribution channels, and for that range of vehicles, the decoder returns data detailed down to engine specs, restraint configurations, and plant of assembly. Once you go outside that range, it gets patchy. Pre-1981 vehicles used proprietary manufacturer formats that the database was never built to accommodate, so most of them return limited or no data, and grey market imports run into a similar wall because the vehicle configurations were never filed with NHTSA if the car was built for a different market. A field showing up as not available is the government database telling you it doesn't have that record, and partial decode results tagged with error code 6 in the underlying API mean only a portion of the VIN could be matched, though even in those cases, the decoder usually still pulls make, year, and country of manufacture directly from the VIN structure.

VIN Location and Physical Identification

Every vehicle manufactured after 1981 carries a chassis number stamped in at least two locations, a requirement that came in specifically to complicate VIN plate swapping, and while that technique had been around longer than the regulation, making it harder to execute cleanly was more or less the whole idea. The dashboard plaque is the primary location, visible through the windshield without opening any door, and positioned where it is partly because altering it without leaving marks tends to require more effort than most operations find worthwhile. On the driver's side door jamb there's a second stamping, on the same sticker that carries tire pressure specs and the gross vehicle weight rating, and on trucks and larger vehicles the VIN also appears on the frame rail near the firewall and on the engine block, which is what allows identification to hold up after the kind of fire or flood damage that takes out everything else. Vehicle titles, registration certificates, insurance cards, and odometer disclosure statements all carry the same 17 character code, and the chain those documents create is what investigators and insurers run against the physical vehicle when something in the reported history stops adding up. Motorcycles use the steering head rather than a dashboard plaque, and a mismatch between what's stamped on the dashboard and what appears on the door jamb sticker is generally how examiners recognize a vehicle put together from parts of more than one unit.

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Dashboard (windshield)Driver-side corner, visible from outside. Primary location — hardest to tamper with.
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Driver-side door jambSticker on the door post. Also shows tire pressure and GVWR.
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Vehicle title & registrationPrinted on all official ownership documents filed with the state DMV.
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Insurance cardListed on the insurance policy and proof-of-insurance documents.
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Engine blockStamped on the engine itself — used to verify the engine has not been swapped.
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Frame railOn trucks and older vehicles, stamped on the frame near the firewall.

VIN Position Reference

Pos 1
Country
1–5: USA · J: Japan · W: Germany · Z: Italy
Pos 2–3
Manufacturer
Together with pos 1, forms the WMI (World Manufacturer Identifier)
Pos 4–8
Vehicle descriptor
Body style, engine, restraint systems — varies by manufacturer
Pos 9
Check digit
Mathematically derived from the other 16 chars. Detects forgeries.
Pos 10
Model year
A=1980, B=1981 ... Y=2000, 1=2001 ... cycles every 30 years
Pos 11
Plant code
Assembly plant identifier assigned by the manufacturer
Pos 12–17
Serial number
Sequential production number — unique within the plant and year

VINs never use the letters I, O, or Q because they look too much like 1 and 0, and any VIN that contains one of those characters has either been copied incorrectly or tampered with. The 17 character length is mandatory for anything built after 1981, so shorter sequences almost always mean a pre-1981 vehicle that used whatever format the manufacturer felt like using at the time, and longer ones mean someone added characters that shouldn't be there. Position nine is the check digit, a value between 0 and 9 or the letter X that comes out of a weighted calculation run against the other 16 characters, and it has to match what's physically stamped on the vehicle. NHTSA doesn't reject a VIN outright when the check digit fails; it assigns error code 1 instead, but a mismatch is still a signal that at least one character in the sequence has been misread or changed.

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about VIN decoding and vehicle history lookups.

Yes, completely free. We pull data from NHTSA (the US government's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration). No login, no email, no credit card — ever.
The most reliable spot is the dashboard on the driver's side, visible through the windshield. Also check the driver-side door jamb sticker, your vehicle title, insurance card, or registration documents. Motorcycles typically have the VIN stamped on the steering head.
NHTSA has detailed records for most vehicles manufactured from the late 1990s onward. Older vehicles, grey-market imports, or certain commercial vehicles may have incomplete entries. Everything we show is pulled from the official US government database — we don't hide or invent data.
No. Accident history, title brands, odometer records, and auction damage reports are held by private data providers (insurers, auctions, state DMVs) — not by NHTSA. Our free decoder shows the vehicle's factory specifications. For full history, use the carVertical report link shown after your results.
Position 9 of every VIN is a calculated check digit (0–9 or the letter X). It's computed from the other 16 characters using a weighted algorithm defined by NHTSA. This lets anyone instantly detect forged or mistyped VINs without needing any database lookup.
Partially. NHTSA focuses on vehicles sold in the US. For European or Asian vehicles never registered in the US, data may be limited. However, make, year, and country of manufacture are decoded directly from the VIN structure and work globally.
VIN stands for Vehicle Identification Number. It is a standardized 17-character alphanumeric code introduced in 1981 under ISO 3779 and adopted by all major markets. Before 1981, manufacturers used their own non-standardized formats.
No. By law and international standard, every VIN must be unique for at least 30 years. A duplicate VIN is a serious red flag for title fraud or cloning — where a stolen vehicle is given the identity of a legitimately registered one.