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

How to determine the year of manufacture of a Samsung washing machine If you purchase a brand new washing machine directly from the store, then along with the cost and technical characteristics, you will immediately find out the year of its assembly. But with used washing machines everything is different: owners can lose documents and lie to inflate the price. Therefore, in the interests of savings, and perhaps for the sake of a still valid warranty on the unit, it is better to independently check the information about the production date of the machine.

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

First let's look at the nameplate

The easiest way to determine the manufacturing date of a Samsung washing machine is by looking at the nameplate - an information sticker with brief information. All manufactured equipment must be marked with it at the factory so that the owner can identify the unit even in the absence of a user manual. It shows the name, type of product, service number, main parameters, characteristics and some other information in the form of a table. Among them is the date of manufacture. To find and study an existing nameplate, you must:

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

Then everything is simple: look for the “Date of Manufacture” column and the digital combination opposite. On Samsung washing machines the month and year of production are indicated, for example, “02.2011”. If there are no extraneous stickers on the case or it is impossible to read anything on it, you will have to decipher the serial number of the existing model.

Let's decipher the number

Another way is to determine the year of birth of the washing machine by the serial number. This is an individual multi-valued combination of numbers and letters, which encodes all the necessary information for a specific model. “SERIAL NO” is indicated in the technical passport of the unit, warranty card, nameplate or on a sticker under the hatch door. Therefore, finding the treasured sequence of signs will not be difficult.

Samsung washing machine nameplate

The difficulty lies precisely in the encoding: you won’t be able to glance at the number and find out the year of manufacture. The found code will have to be correctly interpreted, since all combinations on Samsung machines are made according to the same principle. Let’s say there is “S/N Y44P5ADC500164W”, which stands for this:

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

Having such a decoding 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 count and correlate the signs with the coding explanation. Then the year of manufacture of the Samsung washing machine can be recognized quickly, accurately and without problems.