How to determine the year of manufacture of the Samsung washing machine

If a brand new washing machine is purchased directly from the store, then along with the cost and technical characteristics, the year of its assembly is immediately recognized. But with second-hand cars, everything is different: owners can lose documents and cheat to raise the price. Therefore, in the interests of economy, and perhaps for the sake of a still valid guarantee for the unit, it is better to independently check the information on the date of manufacture of the machine.

To find out the year of manufacture of the Samsung washing machine, it is not necessary to have a technical passport or a warranty card on hand. It is enough to carefully inspect the unit. Moreover, manufacturers immediately provide two ways of reconciling data: by serial number and nameplate. How to do this is described below.

First look at the nameplate

The easiest way is to determine the date of manufacture of the Samsung washing machine according to the nameplate - an information sticker with brief information. It is mandatory to mark all manufactured equipment at the factory, so that the owner can identify the unit even in the absence of a user manual. On it, in the form of a table, the name, product type, service number, basic parameters, characteristics and some other information are indicated. Among them is the date of manufacture. To find and study an existing nameplate, you must:

• disconnect the washing machine from the mains;
• shut off the water supply and disconnect the drain hose;
• turn the machine, providing free access to the rear wall of the housing;
• inspect the washer in the back, bearing in mind that the nameplate is most often located in the lower right corner.

Then everything is simple: we are looking for the column "Date of manufacture" and the digital combination opposite. Samsung washing machines indicate the month and year of production, for example, “02.2011”. If there are no extraneous stickers on the case or it is impossible to read something on it, you will have to decrypt the serial number of the existing model.

Decipher the number

Another way is to determine the year of "birth" of the washer by serial number. This is an individual multi-valued combination of numbers and letters, in which all the necessary information for a specific model is encoded. “SERIAL NO” is indicated in the technical data sheet of the unit, warranty card, nameplate or on a sticker under the door of the hatch. Therefore, it is not difficult to find the cherished sequence of signs.

The complexity lies precisely in the encoding: a quick glance at the number and find out the year of release does not work out. The found cipher will have to be correctly interpreted, since all combinations of Samsung cars are made on the same principle. Suppose there is “S / N Y44P5ADC500164W”, which stands for:

• The last letter - “W” - control (not always indicated).
• The last five digits - “00164” - an individual product number.
• The seventh character from the end (if the control letter is indicated) is “5” - the month of issue. The decoding is as follows: the numbers from 1 to 9 determine the sequence of months from January to September, and the Latin letters "A ","B "and"C ”is the remaining months, respectively.
• The eighth character from the edge (if a control letter is indicated) - “C” - year of issue. The decoding is as follows: the letter “Y” encoded 2005, “L” - 2006, “P” - 2007, and “Q”, “S”, “Z”, “B”, “C”, “D”, “F” , “G”, “H”, “J”, “K”, “M”, “N” from 2008 to 2020, respectively.
• The first 3-7 characters - "Y44P5AD" - factory code with the product group, location and code of the production line.

Having such a decryption in front of you, it is not difficult to determine that the machine with the service number "Y44P5ADC500164W" was released in May 2012. The main thing is to carefully consider and correlate characters with explanation of coding. Then the year of release of the Samsung washer is recognized quickly, accurately and seamlessly.