5 prefixes
Audi VIN decoder
Put a Audi VIN in and get the full NHTSA specification plus any open recalls. Below, every manufacturer prefix a Audi can start with.
Where a Audi VIN starts
The first three characters are the World Manufacturer Identifier. Audi vehicles carry 5 of them, spread across 2 countries of manufacture, because the same model can be built on more than one continent. The prefix tells you which plant lineage built the car before you decode anything else.
| Prefix | Manufacturer of record | Vehicle type | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRU | AUDI AG | Passenger Car | HUNGARY |
| WA1 | AUDI AG | Multipurpose Passenger Vehicle (MPV) | GERMANY |
| WAU | AUDI AG | Passenger Car | GERMANY |
| WU1 | AUDI SPORT GMBH | Multipurpose Passenger Vehicle (MPV) | GERMANY |
| WUA | AUDI SPORT GMBH | Passenger Car | GERMANY |
What Audi stamps them on
- Passenger Car3
- Multipurpose Passenger Vehicle (MPV)2
Current Audi models
Models NHTSA lists for the most recent complete model year.
- A3
- A4
- A4 allroad
- A5
- A6
- A6 allroad
- A7
- A8 L
- Q3
- Q4
- Q5
- Q5 e
- Q6
- Q7
- Q8
- RS 3
- RS 5
- RS 6 Avant
- RS 7
- RS Q8
- RS e-tron GT
- S e-tron GT
- S3
- S4
- S5
- S6
- S7
- S8
- SQ5
- SQ6
- SQ7
- SQ8
Other makes
Prefix table from NHTSA vPIC, built 2026-08-09. 888 prefixes across the site.