How to know the manufacturing date of a Samsung refrigerator

Knowing when your appliances were manufactured is very helpful in a number of ways. Of course, in most situations you don’t need to know, and most people don’t pay attention to it, but that’s only up to the point where your appliance stops working. If that happens, you have several options. The first is to spend $100 to $200 to repair it, and the second is to just buy a new refrigerator. This is when you need to know the manufacturing date of your refrigerator. Yes, if your refrigerator is more than 10 years old, and the problem is quite complex and may require a lot of money to repair, it is more economical to buy a new refrigerator, and sell the old one, for example, for parts.

How to find a manufacturing date of a Samsung refrigerator

I will now tell you how you can look up the date of manufacture of your refrigerator and find out the age of your Samsung refrigerator. You can find out the manufacturing date of your Samsung refrigerator from the refrigerator’s serial number. As a rule, Samsung does not indicate the manufacturing date in an easy-to-read format. This can be explained by the fact that large appliances can be sold for quite a long time. And for example in the store can be represented refrigerators that came off the assembly line more than a year ago. This can scare away a potential customer.

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Samsung refrigerator serial number lookup

If you want to know the age of your refrigerator, you need to find the serial number, and already in the serial number you can find symbols indicating the date of assembly of your refrigerator.
There are several ways to find out the serial number of your refrigerator. If you still have the documents that you received when you purchased your refrigerator, you can find the refrigerator’s serial number in them.
But these documents are usually lost, so this is not the best option. You can also find the refrigerator’s serial number on the stickers on your refrigerator. There are usually two of these stickers: one is on the inside of the refrigerator, on the side wall. The second sticker is on the outside, on the side wall of the refrigerator at the bottom. This sticker is technical, it has bar codes and is designed to be read by scanners during transportation and storage in the refrigerator warehouse.

In the pictures, I have shown where the information stickers can be located. Depending on the refrigerator model, the sticker inside the refrigerator can be located on either the left or right inside wall of the refrigerator.

Samsung refrigerator manufacturing date explained

Once you have found the serial number of your refrigerator. Determining the date of manufacture is very easy. Let’s take our picture B11343CBB00158A as an example. The 8th and 9th characters in the Samsung refrigerator serial number are the date when the refrigerator was manufactured. In our case it is CB (B11343BCB00158A). Now we are left to find out the meaning of these symbols. The 8th character tells us the year of manufacture of the refrigerator and the 9th character tells us the month. For convenience, I have created a table which contains information about the production date of Samsung appliances, you can see it in this article.

Where can I find the year of manufacture of my Samsung refrigerator?

Find the serial number of your Samsung refrigerator, find the 8th and 9th characters in the serial number, the year of manufacture of your Samsung refrigerator is the eighth letter in the serial number of your Samsung refrigerator. Once you have found it, use the table below to find out the year of manufacture of your Samsung refrigerator. I gave the information starting in 2001, in the table you will find information starting in 1990.

• R — 2001
• T — 2002
• W — 2003
• X — 2004
• Y — 2005
• A, L — 2006
• P — 2007
• Q — 2008
• S — 2009
• Z — 2010
• B — 2011
• C — 2012
• D — 2013
• E — 2014
• G — 2015
• H — 2016
• J — 2017
• K — 2018
• M – 2019
• N – 2020
• R – 2021
• Т – 2022

Where can I find the month your Samsung refrigerator was manufactured?

The 9th character is the month of manufacture, together with the year of manufacture it will be the date of manufacture with production detail to the month. Since there are 12 months in a year, not only numbers but also letters are used.

• 1 – January
• 2 – February
• 3 – March
• 4 – April
• 5 – May
• 6 – June
• 7 – July
• 8 – August
• 9 – September
• A – October
• B – November
• C – December

So, our refrigerator (which we took as an example) with the number CB was manufactured in November 2012.

When was refrigerator made: serial number codes

With the help of the table you can easily determine the date of manufacture of your refrigerator. If you have found the symbols indicating the date of manufacture. With the help of the table, you can easily find these symbols in the table and find out the manufacturing date of your Samsung refrigerator by two letters from the serial number. The table shows the production dates of Samsung refrigerators and other home appliances since 1990, which is more than 30 years. Thus, you will always find the production date of your refrigerator. You should also consider repeating the cycle of assigning production dates, in which case you should also use the model number of your refrigerator.

Data Code Samsung

year / month		January	February	March	April	May	June	july	August	September	October	November	December
	code; year / month	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C
1990	M	M 1	M 2	M 3	M 4	M5	M6	M7	M8	M9	MA	MB	MC
1991	A	A 1	A2	A3	A4	A5	A6	A7	A8	A9	AA	AB	AC
1992	B	B 1	B2	B3	B4	B5	B6	B7	B8	B9	BA	BB	BC
1993	C	C1	C2	C3	C4	C5	C6	C7	C8	C9	CA	CB	CC
1994	D	D1	D2	D3	D4	D5	D6	D7	D8	D9	DA	DB	DC
1995	F	F1	F2	F3	F4	F5	F6	F7	F8	F9	FA	FB	FC
1996	G	G1	G2	G3	G4	G5	G6	G7	G8	G9	GA	GB	GC
1997	H	H1	H2	H3	H4	H5	H6	H7	H8	H9	HA	HB	HC
1998	J	J1	J2	J3	J4	J5	J6	J7	J8	J9	JA	JB	JC
1999	K	K1	K2	K3	K4	K5	K6	K7	K8	K9	KA	KB	KC
2000	N	N1	N2	N3	N4	N5	N6	N7	N8	N9	NA	NB	NC
2001	R	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	RA	RB	RC
2002	T	T1	T2	T3	T4	T5	T6	T7	T8	T9	TA	TB	TC
2003	W	W1	W2	W3	W4	W5	W6	W7	W8	W9	WA	WB	WC
2004	X	X1	X2	X3	X4	X5	X6	X7	X8	X9	XA	XB	XC
2005	Y	Y1	Y2	Y3	Y4	Y5	Y6	Y7	Y8	Y9	YA	YB	YC
2006	A,L	A1,L1	A2,L2	A3,L3	A4,L4	A5,L5	A6,L6	A7,L7	A8,L8	A9,L9	AA,LA	AB,LB	AC,LC
2007	P	P1	P2	P3	P4	P5	P6	P7	P8	P9	PA	PB	PC
2008	Q	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Q5	Q6	Q7	Q8	Q9	QA	QB	QC
2009	S	S1	S2	S3	S4	S5	S6	S7	S8	S9	SA	SB	SC
2010	Z	Z1	Z2	Z3	Z4	Z5	Z6	Z7	Z8	Z9	ZA	ZB	ZC
2011	B	B1	B2	B3	B4	B5	B6	B7	B8	B9	BA	BB	BC
2012	C	C1	C2	C3	C4	C5	C6	C7	C8	C9	CA	CB	CC
2013	D	D1	D2	D3	D4	D5	D6	D7	D8	D9	DA	DB	DC
2014	F	F1	F2	F3	F4	F5	F6	F7	F8	F9	FA	FB	FC
2015	G	G1	G2	G3	G4	G5	G6	G7	G8	G9	GA	GB	GC
2016	H	H1	H2	H3	H4	H5	H6	H7	H8	H9	HA	HB	HC
2017	J	J1	J2	J3	J4	J5	J6	J7	J8	J9	JA	JB	JC
2018	K	K1	K2	K3	K4	K5	K6	K7	K8	K9	KA	KB	KC
2019	M	M1	M2	M3	M4	M5	M6	M7	M8	M9	MA	MB	MC
2020	N	N1	N2	N3	N4	N5	N6	N7	N8	N9	NA	NB	NC
2021	R	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9	RA	RB	RC
2022	T	T1	T2	T3	T4	T5	T6	T7	T8	T9	TA	TB	TC
2023	W	W1	W2	W3	W4	W5	W6	W7	W8	W9	WA	WB	WC