How to Find Your Park Home Chassis Number
Your chassis number is the unique DNA of your park home. You need it to validate your warranty, secure insurance, and order replacement parts from the manufacturer. If you've lost your original paperwork, here is exactly where to look.
🔍 1. The Indoor Hunt: The Data Plate
By law, modern park homes must leave the factory with a metal or heavy-duty foil "Data Plate" securely fixed inside the home. This plate lists the manufacturer, model, year, and that all-important chassis number.
- The Boiler Cupboard: This is the #1 most common location. Open the door and check the inside of the door itself, or the wall directly next to the boiler.
- Inside the Kitchen Cabinets: Open the cabinet under the kitchen sink, or the very top cupboards. Manufacturers love hiding plates on the inside of these doors.
- Near the Fuse Box: Check the wall immediately surrounding your main electrical consumer unit.
- The Master Wardrobe: Occasionally, older models have the data plate affixed to the inside panel of the built-in bedroom wardrobe.
🔦 2. The Outdoor Hunt: Under the Home
If the indoor plate has been painted over or peeled off by a previous owner, you will need to grab a flashlight and look at the steel chassis itself. (Warning: Only do this if it is safe to look under the skirt!)
- The Front Tow Bar (Drawbar): Park homes are delivered on wheels. Look at the very front of the steel chassis where the tractor would have originally hitched up. The number is often stamped directly into the heavy steel here.
- The Welded Tag: Look underneath the home, close to the front door. Many manufacturers weld a small, heavy-duty metal tag to the main steel cross-member featuring the chassis number.
- The Axle Stand Points: On 1980s and 1990s models, check the thickest steel beams where the main axle supports are located.
📄 3. The Paper Trail
If you cannot physically locate the number on the home, it will be recorded on your legal documents:
- The Gold Shield Warranty: If your home was built in the last 10 years, it will have a 10-year structural warranty certificate. The chassis number is printed at the top.
- Your Written Statement: Check the pitch agreement you signed with the park owner when you bought the home. By law, the park owner must record the home's serial/chassis number on this document.
💡 Still completely stuck?
If your home is over 30 years old and the numbers have rusted away or been painted over, try posting a photo of the outside of your home to our Archive Team. Sometimes, identifying the exact window layout and roofline is the only way to figure out what you own, or better still send a photo into our "I-Spy" Archive Mystery Model and well get our members to identify it!
