Different types of stickers with a VIN number

can you clarify the question please?

 

understood. i did not know that, and don't know the answer. hopefully, someone who does will respond.

 

The VIN is marked several places on the car. Are the numbers different?

 

Those are regulatory compliance labels. There's a law somewhere that says something like "And there shall be affixed a permanent decal or marking, identifying the VIN and blah blah blah"

And there are several such laws- each one gets its own sticker because combining one with another would technically cause non-compliance with both.

Different markets (locations) have different laws- so sometimes there will be a whole second set of labels for a car that might be built one way for more than one destination.

The mix of stickers you get is very dependent on where the car was first sold.

 

Here's a cleaned up version of the Euro label:



For comparison, our Canadian version:

 

US label?


(Not a prius though.)

 

That's good - would be concerned if they weren't!