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Mexico license plate: Private car 2016

Issued today 2016 to today. Standard plates for car, issued by Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT). One of 43 Mexico license plates.

Mexico license plate, Private car 2016 (2016 to today), sample XXM-500-F
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL-999-L, for example XXM-500-F (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
2016 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car.
Size
300 × 150 mm · every country's size
How numbers are issued
Allocated as a contiguous interval per entidad federativa (AAA-001-A … AFZ-999-Z is Aguascalientes, AGA-001-A … CYZ-999-Z is Baja California, and so on to ZDA-001-A … ZHZ-999-Z for Zacatecas). Within a state the NOM publishes only the interval, not the issue order.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Apéndice B Normativo Tabla C, row 9 'Transporte Privado (Entidades Federativas), Automóviles, AAA-000-A' https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5442476&fecha=24/06/2016
  2. Apéndice A, Figura 18 'Transporte Privado Automóvil Entidades Federativas' (siete caracteres); guiones 16 x 5.6 https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5442476&fecha=24/06/2016
  3. Apéndice C Normativo, 'NUMERACIÓN DE LAS PLACAS TRANSPORTES PRIVADOS ASIGNADAS A CADA ENTIDAD FEDERATIVA', the 31 per-state ranges carried in the decode file https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5442476&fecha=24/06/2016
  4. Acuerdo ARTICULO TERCERO (colours optional) and SEPTIMO (three-year vigencia) https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=2060390&fecha=25/09/2000

Before and after

Mexico license plate, Private car 2001 (documented 2001 to 2016) It replaced Private car 2001 documented 2001 to 2016

This plate in your app

The series id is mx-private-car-2016. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Mexico's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/mx \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "mx-private-car-2016")'
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