Vehicle Certification (VC) Label
VEHICLE CERTIFICATION (VC) CODESVehicle Certification (VC) Label Locator:
Vehicle Certification (VC) Label - Canada (Typical):
The vehicle (VC) label contains information on the manufacturer name, the month and year of manufacture, the certification statement and the VIN. This label also includes gross vehicle weight (GVW) information.
Exterior Paint:
Exterior paint codes may be listed as a 2-part code. The first set of characters listed indicate the vehicle primary body color. The second set of characters listed (if applicable) indicate a 2-tone or accent body color. All codes are base coat/clear coat.
Primary Body Color Code
- AQ - Arizona Beige
- CX - Dark Shadow Gray
- FS - Spruce Green
- HG - Smokestone
- JL - Dark Toreador Red
- JP - Silver Birch Metallic
- KR - Norcea Blue
- T3 - Satellite Silver
- UA - Ebony
- WT - Performance White
Accent Body Color Code
- B2 - Harvest Gold
- TF - Graphite II
Wheelbase Code:
- 121 - 121-inch (3073-mm) wheelbase
Brake Code:
- D - Advance Trac
- V - Van Value/Fleet Group
- Z - Advance Trac with Van Value/Fleet Group
Interior Trim:
Interior trim codes are listed as a 2-part code. The first character identifies the interior trim type. The second character identifies the interior trim color.
Interior Trim Type
- C - Morgan cloth - Freestar
- D - Kendall cloth - Freestar
- L - Imola leather - Freestar/Monterey
- M - Zach cloth (leather trimmed, Canada) - Freestar
- N - Logan cloth - Monterey
- S - Perforated preferred suede - Monterey
Interior Trim Color
- 6 - Medium Light Flint
- 7 - Pebble
Tape/Paint Stripe:
Tape and paint stripe codes do not apply.
Radio Code:
- 6 - Premium electronic AM/FM stereo with compact disc (CD) player and cassette
- 7 - Electronic AM/FM stereo with clock
- B - AM/FM stereo with compact disc (CD) player and speed sensitive volume control
- K - Premium electronic AM/FM stereo with cassette, compact disc (CD) and clock
- P - Radio pre-equipment package
- S - Electronic AM/FM stereo (CDX6) 6-disc compact disc (CD) changer
- V - Electronic AM/FM stereo (CDX6) 6-disc compact disc (CD) changer and speed sensitive volume control
- X - Electronic AM/FM stereo (CDX6) 6-disc compact disc (CD) changer
- Z - Electronic AM/FM stereo with compact disc (CD) player and clock
Axle Code:
- 24 - 3.54 final drive ratio
Transmission Code:
- N - 4-speed automatic overdrive, AX4N/4F50N
Spring Code:
Spring codes are listed as a 2-part code. The first character listed identifies the front springs. The second character listed identifies the rear springs.
Front Spring/Strut Assembly
- A - 5F23-5B420-AA
- B - 5F23-5B420-BA
Rear Springs
- A - 4F22-5534-AA
- G - 3F23-5534-G
- H - 3F23-5534-H
- K - 3F23-5534-K
Powertrain Calibration Information:
Powertrain Calibration Information
NOTE: Powertrain calibration information is limited to a maximum of 5 characters per line on the vehicle certification (VC) label. Because of this, calibration identification consisting of more that 5 characters will wrap to the second line on the VC label.
Powertrain calibration information is printed in the lower right corner of the VC label. Only base calibration information is printed. Revision levels will not appear, however, they can be found in On Line Automotive Service Information System (OASIS). For the current model year, Ford Motor Company is using 3 different protocols which describe powertrain base calibration. These protocols are designed to provide worldwide standardization for vehicle calibration. If the electronic calibration strategy was introduced in 1998 and carried into the current model year, Protocol 1 will be used. Refer to Protocol 1. If the electronic calibration strategy was introduced in 1999 and carried into the current model year, Protocol 2 will be used. Refer to Protocol 2. For electronic calibration strategy introduced in 2000 and beyond, Protocol 3 will be used. Refer to Protocol 3.
Protocol 1:
Protocol 2:
Protocol 3:
Protocol 3
The following offers a more detailed explanation of the coding strategy used in Protocol 3.
Model Year
- 2 - 2002
- 3 - 2003
- 4 - 2004
- 5 - 2005
- 6 - 2006
Vehicle Line
- A4 - Freestar/Monterey
Transmission
- 1 - Automatic transmission
Unique Calibration
The Emissions/CAFE/CO2 Compliance Department is responsible for assigning these calibration numbers. Unique calibration identifications are assigned to cover similar vehicles to differentiate tires, drive configurations, final drive ratios and other calibration-significant factors.
These 2 characters are chosen by the analyst to provide identifiable information unique to each calibration. For example, using the number 2 to denote a 2-valve engine versus using the number 4 to denote a 4-valve engine, offers an easily identifiable difference.
Fleet Code
- 0 - Certification (U.S. 4K, final sale in an export market)
- 1 - HDGE/Dyno
- 2 - Fast AMA, U.S.
- 3 - ADP, U.S.
- 4 - Not assigned
- 5 - Not assigned
- 6 - Evaporative emissions
- 7 - MACCA
- 8 - On-board diagnostics (OBD)
- 9 - Not assigned
Certification Region
- 5 - U.S. 50 states
- A - U.S. federal, including altitude, may include Canada and/or Mexico
- B - U.S. California, includes U.S. green states
- C - Canada
- D - China
- E - European Community (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom)
- F - Extended European Community (E plus Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland and Yugoslavia)
- G - Gulf Cooperative Council (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon and UAE)
- H - Hong Kong
- J - Japan
- K - Korea
- L - Malaysia
- M - Mexico
- N - New Zealand
- P - Australia
- Q - South America (Brazil)
- S - Singapore
- T - Taiwan
- U - South America (unleaded fuel regions)
- V - Vietnam
- X - Rest of world (ROW)
- Y - Military
- Z - Israel
Revision Level (not printed on label)
- 91-99 - Hardware calibration levels.
- 01-04 - Preliminary levels.
- 00 - Job 1 production (initial calibration).
- 05-09 - Pre-job 1 revisions to calibrations.
- 10-89 - Post-job 1 revisions to calibrations.
- 0B - Durability test level.
- BD - On-board diagnostics (OBD) intermediate level (pre-05).