Peugeot 3008 VIN Decoder

Decode any Peugeot 3008 VIN free in seconds. Enter the 17-character vehicle identification number into the decoder above and get back what the factory build data can confirm: World Manufacturer Identifier, model year, generation, assembly plant region, and check-digit validity.
A market note up front: Peugeot withdrew from the United States entirely in 1991 and hasn’t sold a new vehicle there since. The 3008 launched in 2009, well after that exit, so it was never federalized for US sale and carries no NHTSA safety certification or US recall history. NHTSA’s vPIC database, which powers most VIN decoders including this one, is built primarily from US-market submissions. It recognizes Peugeot as a manufacturer and validates the 3008’s World Manufacturer Identifier, but holds almost no model-, trim-, or engine-level detail for a car never sold on US roads. This page decodes what’s actually verifiable and says so where the data runs out, rather than inventing a table to fill the gap.

About the Peugeot 3008

The 3008 is Peugeot’s compact crossover, built at Stellantis’s Sochaux plant in eastern France (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region) since it launched in 2008 for the 2009 model year. It started as a five-door hatchback/MPV crossover, was reinvented as a conventional SUV for its second generation, and has since evolved into a coupe-SUV with a full electric variant. It is now in its third generation:

Generation	Model code	Years	Body	Platform	Primary plant
1st gen	T84	2008/2009-2016	MPV-crossover hatchback	PSA PF2	Sochaux and Mulhouse, France (plus CKD assembly in China, Malaysia, Kazakhstan)
2nd gen	P84	2016-2023/2024	SUV	PSA EMP2	Sochaux, France (plus China, Malaysia, and several African/Asian CKD sites)
3rd gen	P64	2023/2024-present	Coupe-SUV, including fully electric e-3008	Stellantis STLA Medium	Sochaux, France (exclusive for the e-3008)

The second generation won European Car of the Year in 2017, the first SUV to take that award since it began in 1964, beating the Alfa Romeo Giulia and Mercedes E-Class. The third generation debuted in September 2023 and reached showrooms from February 2024, with the e-3008 as the first Stellantis vehicle on the new STLA Medium electric architecture. Peugeot is part of Stellantis, formed in 2021 from the PSA/Fiat Chrysler merger, alongside Citroën, DS, Opel, Vauxhall, Fiat, Jeep, and other brands.

We found no documentation tying 3008 production to the Stellantis Mangualde plant in Portugal, which builds the Citroën Berlingo and Peugeot Partner vans instead. Sochaux, confirmed by Stellantis’s own press materials, is the model’s consistent home plant across all three generations.

Peugeot 3008 WMI codes (positions 1-3)

The first three characters of any VIN are the World Manufacturer Identifier, assigned by SAE International under ISO 3780. We checked this directly against NHTSA’s own WMI registry rather than trusting a third-party summary, and it returns exactly one WMI on record for Peugeot passenger cars:

WMI	Registered to	Country	Vehicle type	NHTSA record date
VF3	AUTOMOBILES PEUGEOT	France	Passenger car	Added 2016-11-30

This matches four real Peugeot 3008 VINs we pulled from European dealer, forum, and salvage-auction sources and ran through NHTSA’s vPIC decoder, spanning model years 2009 through 2021: every one begins VF3 and is correctly identified as Make “PEUGEOT,” Manufacturer “AUTOMOBILES PEUGEOT.” (Peugeot’s motorcycle division has a separate WMI, VGA, not relevant here.) V is the ISO region code for a cluster of European countries, and F3 narrows it to Peugeot’s French passenger-car operation. If a VIN presented as a Peugeot 3008 doesn’t start with VF3, treat it as suspect.

How to read a Peugeot 3008 VIN: position by position

Like every vehicle built to the ISO 3779 standard, a 3008’s VIN breaks into three blocks: WMI (1-3), Vehicle Descriptor Section (4-8), and Vehicle Identifier Section (9-17, covering the check digit, model year, plant, and serial number).

Positions 1-3: World Manufacturer Identifier

Covered above. VF3 on a genuine 3008, always.

Positions 4-8: Vehicle Descriptor Section (VDS)

This block is where model, body, and powertrain detail normally live, and it’s also where the gap in available data is widest. Peugeot doesn’t submit non-US-spec build data to NHTSA, so vPIC returns no decoded model, engine, or body class for a 3008 VIN. One pattern did emerge across our four real VINs: cars from the first generation (T84, built 2009) carried 0 at position 4, while second-generation cars (P84, built 2017-2021) carried M. That’s a real, observed difference, but it’s a small sample, and we have no third-generation (P64) or e-3008 VIN to confirm what position 4 reads on the newest cars. We’re reporting what we saw rather than extrapolating a full VDS table no public source documents.

Position 9: Check digit

The 9th character is a calculated control digit meant to catch typos across the other 16 characters, using a fixed weighting formula and modulo-11 math defined in ISO 3779. Here’s a useful quirk: when we ran all four confirmed 3008 VINs through NHTSA’s decoder, every one came back flagged “Check Digit (9th position) does not calculate properly.” That’s not a sign of a fake VIN. The check-digit formula NHTSA validates against is a US federal requirement (49 CFR 565) for vehicles built for the American market. Peugeot has never built the 3008 for that market, so its European VINs aren’t required to satisfy that convention, and NHTSA’s tooling flags them as a result. Outside North America, position 9 is still part of the VIN structure, just not one a US-style validator will confirm.

Position 10: Model year

Position 10 encodes model year on a 30-year repeating cycle defined in ISO 3779, and this part of the standard is universal. Letters I, O, and Q are always skipped because they’re too easily confused with 1 and 0. For a Peugeot 3008, built from 2009 onward, here’s the complete cycle:

Char	Year	Char	Year	Char	Year
9	2009	K	2019	V	2027
A	2010	L	2020	W	2028
B	2011	M	2021	X	2029
C	2012	N	2022	Y	2030
D	2013	P	2023	1	2031
E	2014	R	2024	2	2032
F	2015	S	2025	3	2033
G	2016	T	2026
H	2017
J	2018

We verified this against real VINs rather than assuming it: a genuine 3008 VIN with 9 at position 10 corresponds to a 2009-built first-generation car, and VINs with H and J correspond to 2017 and 2018 second-generation cars, matching independently reported model years for those vehicles. One sample VIN read L (2020) at position 10 while the marketplace listing that sourced it described the car as a “2021” model, a common mismatch between the factory-encoded model year and the calendar year a car was actually registered or listed.

Position 11: Assembly plant

A single character normally identifies the specific factory. All four real 3008 VINs we decoded, spanning 2009 to 2021 and both the T84 and P84 generations, carried the same character, S, at position 11, consistent with Sochaux being the model’s constant home plant. We’re not presenting a multi-row plant-code table, though, since we only have confirmed data for one facility. Peugeot doesn’t publish a position-11 code table, and we won’t guess at codes for the 3008’s other CKD assembly sites (China, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, various African plants) without a VIN to confirm them.

Positions 12-17: Serial number

The final six characters are the sequential production number assigned to that individual car as it came down the line. This part of the VIN is universal, and manufacturer-specific only in that it restarts however the factory’s own counting system dictates; it doesn’t carry standardized meaning beyond making that car’s VIN unique.

Where to find the VIN on a Peugeot 3008

European-market vehicles carry the VIN in broadly the same spots US-market cars do, plus a few regional documents:

• Lower corner of the windscreen, visible from outside the car
• VIN plate under the bonnet, usually on the front crossmember or bulkhead
• Stamped into the chassis, typically near the front passenger footwell or under the bonnet
• Driver’s door pillar sticker on most model years
• The vehicle’s registration document (in France, the “carte grise”; in the UK, the V5C logbook)
• Insurance documents and, on later cars, the Peugeot connected-services app

If you’re buying a used 3008 privately, cross-check the windscreen VIN against the chassis stamp and registration document. A mismatch between any of these is a red flag worth walking away from.

Recalls and safety information

Because the 3008 has no US sales history, there’s no NHTSA recall record for it, and there never will be for cars built to European or other non-US specification. Safety oversight runs through each country’s own regulator instead. In the UK, the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) publishes recall records through the government’s official checker at check-vehicle-recalls.service.gov.uk, searchable by make, model, and VIN. As of our research, the 3008 has ten recall entries logged against the 2017 model year alone, including starter-motor wiring that carried a short-circuit risk (R/2017/215, July 2017, over 7,000 vehicles) and a 2019 engine-software recalibration tied to excessive emissions (R/2019/352, over 18,000 vehicles). In France, recalls run through the government’s Sécurité Routière portal; a 2023 example affected certain 3008s over an interior door-handle fault that could trap occupants inside while the engine was running.

To check a specific car:

1. Decode the VIN with the tool above to confirm the exact generation and model year
2. If the car is UK-registered, search the DVSA recall checker by VIN or registration plate
3. If the car is France-registered, check the Sécurité Routière rappel database
4. For other markets, check that country’s national vehicle-safety authority, since there’s no single global database covering every country the 3008 has been sold in

Recall repairs are free through authorized dealers regardless of the car’s age or ownership history, the same as they would be in the US.

Frequently asked questions

How do I decode a Peugeot 3008 VIN?

Enter the 17-character VIN from the windscreen, chassis stamp, or registration document into the decoder at the top of this page. It confirms the World Manufacturer Identifier, model year, and check-digit status. Because the 3008 was never sold in the US, don’t expect detailed trim, engine, or option data back the way you would for a US-market vehicle; that level of build data isn’t in NHTSA’s database for this car.

Why wasn’t the Peugeot 3008 ever sold in the United States?

Peugeot withdrew from the US market entirely in 1991, years before the 3008 existed, citing poor sales, a weak dealer network, and reliability concerns that had built up through the 1980s. The brand never returned, so the 3008, launched in 2009, was never engineered, crash-tested, or certified for US sale.

What does a Peugeot 3008 VIN starting with VF3 mean?

VF3 is the WMI registered to Automobiles Peugeot with NHTSA, confirmed directly in NHTSA’s own manufacturer WMI database. It identifies the vehicle as a Peugeot-built passenger car from France. It doesn’t tell you which specific plant built the car, since Peugeot also builds 3008s for some markets in China, Malaysia, and elsewhere under license or joint-venture arrangements that may carry different WMIs on those specific export cars.

Why does NHTSA say the check digit “does not calculate properly” on my Peugeot VIN?

That’s expected, not a fault in the VIN. The check-digit formula NHTSA validates against is a US federal requirement (49 CFR 565) that applies to vehicles built for the American market. A European-spec Peugeot 3008 was never built to that requirement, so NHTSA’s validator flags it, even on a completely genuine, unaltered VIN.

How do I tell which generation my 3008 is from the VIN?

Position 10 gives you the model year using the table above, and from that you can place the car in a generation: 2009-2016 is the first-generation T84, 2016-2023/2024 is the second-generation P84 (the one that won European Car of the Year in 2017), and 2023/2024 onward is the third-generation P64, including the fully electric e-3008.

Is the Peugeot 3008 VIN decoder free?

Yes. VinDecoderPlus decodes the standard ISO 3779 structure of any 17-character Peugeot 3008 VIN free of charge, no sign-up required. Given the limited US-market data available for this model, some fields will return less detail than they would for a US-sold vehicle, and we’d rather tell you that than pad the result with guesses.

Can a Peugeot 3008 VIN be faked?

The characters can be retyped onto a fraudulent plate, but a genuine VIN is also stamped into the chassis and appears on the vehicle’s registration document, both harder to alter cleanly than a windscreen sticker. If those don’t match, or if a private seller is reluctant to let you check the chassis stamp directly, treat it as a warning sign. See our guide on how to check if a car is stolen by VIN for the next steps.

Decode any Peugeot 3008 VIN free

Type your 17-character Peugeot 3008 VIN into the decoder at the top of this page for an instant breakdown. To go deeper into VIN structure generally, or to check other Peugeot models:

• Peugeot VIN decoder hub for the brand-wide guide
• How to read a VIN number for the general ISO 3779 standard
• What every character in a VIN means for a position-by-position reference
• Classic car VIN decoder (pre-1981) for older, non-standard chassis numbers
• VIN decoder vs. vehicle history report for what a decode covers versus what it doesn’t
• How to check if a car is stolen by VIN for verifying a used 3008 before you buy