Vehicle ID Search Help

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VIN Number Search

Please type the last eight (8) digits of your vehicle's sixteen (16) digit VIN (Vehicle Identification Number; found on the drivers-side of the vehicle, where the dashboard meets the windshield) to search for publications related to your particular automobile. A Text Search is an optional search to narrow down the resulting documents. Click on the search button to display the results. Below is a table which shows some helpful search tips to help you to more efficiently use this site's database of information when using the Text Search feature.

Search Syntax

Operator

Symbol

Description

Example Expression

AND

Use the AND operator to search for documents that contain at least one occurrence of each of the query terms.

Score returned is the minimum of the operands.

'fuel AND filter'
'fuel & filter'

Use the OR operator to search for documents that contain at least one occurrence of any of the query terms.

Score returned is the maximum of the
operands.

'fuel | filter'
'fuel OR filter'

NOT

Use the NOT operator to search for documents that contain one query term and not another.

To obtain the documents that contain the term filters but not fuel, use the following expression:

'filters ~ fuel'

ACCUM

Use the ACCUM operator to search for documents that contain at least one occurrence of any of the query terms. The accumulate operator ranks documents according to the total term weight of a document.

The following query returns all documents that contain the terms fuel, filter and oil giving the highest scores to the documents that contain all three terms:

'fuel, filter, oil'

EQUIV

Use the EQUIV operator to specify an acceptable substitution for a word in a query.

The following example returns all documents that contain either the phrase replacing fuel pump or fixing fuel pump:

'replacing fuel pump=fixing fuel pump'