{ "schema_version": "1.0", "project": "Forklift IQ", "subject": "JLG scissor-lift manufacture-year lookup", "research_date_utc": "2026-10-17", "status": "official_public_lookup_verified_manufacture_year_unresolved", "summary": { "validated_scissor_manufacture_year_rules": 0, "validated_annual_serial_year_ranges": 0, "verified_guest_lookup_examples": 4, "universal_decoder_supported": false, "interpretation": "The official public lookup is useful but its observed dates are shipment, in-service and warranty dates. The research did not establish a manufacture-year decoder or annual serial ranges." }, "lookup": { "source_id": "jlg-equipment-information", "entry_url": "https://onlineexpress.jlg.com/equipment-information?locale=en-us", "public_entry_page": true, "guest_result_verified": true, "login_required_for_tested_reads": false, "tested_serials": [ "0200239382", "M200085546", "0200239053", "M200087696" ], "unverified": [ "Coverage of every legacy or non-US serial", "Any additional fields available to authorized account holders", "An OEM-supported API or permission for bulk extraction", "Exact manufacturing dates for these four machines" ] }, "coverage": [ { "cohort": "legacy_ES", "models": [ "1930ES", "2030ES", "2032ES", "2630ES", "2632ES", "2646ES", "3246ES" ], "sources": [ "jlg-old-es-3121166", "jlg-es-3121656-h" ], "evidence_status": "Country-prefix and manual-scope evidence; serial-specific date lookup verified for 1930ES only.", "manufacture_year_rule": null }, { "cohort": "newer_ES", "models": [ "ES1932" ], "sources": [ "jlg-pvc-faq", "jlg-guest-M200085546" ], "evidence_status": "Live OEM guest result verified, including PVC; manufacture field absent in inspected machine information.", "manufacture_year_rule": null }, { "cohort": "legacy_RT", "models": [ "3394RT", "4394RT" ], "sources": [ "jlg-guest-0200239053" ], "evidence_status": "Manual serial applicability located; live OEM guest result is specifically 4394RT.", "manufacture_year_rule": null }, { "cohort": "newer_RT_ERT", "models": [ "RT2669", "RT3369", "RT4069", "ERT2669", "ERT3369" ], "sources": [ "jlg-rt-31217162-b", "jlg-guest-M200087696" ], "evidence_status": "PVC-scoped RT/ERT manual and live OEM RT4069 guest result; no annual year map established.", "manufacture_year_rule": null } ], "unit_observations": [ { "id": "jlg-guest-0200239382", "manufacturer": "JLG", "equipment_class": "scissor_lift", "model": "1930ES", "serial_number": "0200239382", "lookup_url": "https://onlineexpress.jlg.com/serial-number-search/details/0200239382", "checked_on": "2026-10-17", "authentication": "guest_no_login", "source_id": "jlg-equipment-information", "input_provenance": "Public lower serial boundary in JLG manual 3121656 Rev H.", "input_source": "jlg-es-3121656-h", "observed_fields": { "Ship Date": "12/30/2014", "In Service Date": "12/30/2014", "Warranty End Date": "12/29/2015" }, "normalized_dates": { "ship_date": "2014-12-30", "in_service_date": "2014-12-30", "warranty_end_date": "2015-12-29" }, "pvc": null, "manufacture_date": null, "manufacture_year": null, "model_year": null, "year_resolution_status": "unresolved_manufacture_year", "confidence_observed_fields": "high_live_manufacturer_record", "confidence_manufacture_year": "not_established", "automatic_manufacture_year_decode_allowed": false, "prohibited_inferences": [ "Do not relabel ship year, in-service year, warranty year or PVC digits as manufacture year.", "Do not extrapolate an annual serial range from this isolated record.", "Do not infer model from a family-wide manual serial boundary." ] }, { "id": "jlg-guest-M200085546", "manufacturer": "JLG", "equipment_class": "scissor_lift", "model": "ES1932", "serial_number": "M200085546", "lookup_url": "https://onlineexpress.jlg.com/serial-number-search/details/M200085546", "checked_on": "2026-10-17", "authentication": "guest_no_login", "source_id": "jlg-equipment-information", "input_provenance": "Public seller serial used only as a lookup lead; all recorded date fields below are from the official JLG result.", "input_source": "https://www.mascus.ro/construction/scissor-lifts/jlg-es1932/jushtknl.html", "observed_fields": { "Ship Date": "11/09/2023", "In Service Date": "01/08/2024", "Warranty End Date": "01/07/2025", "PVC": "2304" }, "normalized_dates": { "ship_date": "2023-11-09", "in_service_date": "2024-01-08", "warranty_end_date": "2025-01-07" }, "pvc": "2304", "manufacture_date": null, "manufacture_year": null, "model_year": null, "year_resolution_status": "unresolved_manufacture_year", "confidence_observed_fields": "high_live_manufacturer_record", "confidence_manufacture_year": "not_established", "automatic_manufacture_year_decode_allowed": false, "prohibited_inferences": [ "Do not relabel ship year, in-service year, warranty year or PVC digits as manufacture year.", "Do not extrapolate an annual serial range from this isolated record.", "Do not infer model from a family-wide manual serial boundary." ] }, { "id": "jlg-guest-0200239053", "manufacturer": "JLG", "equipment_class": "scissor_lift", "model": "4394RT", "serial_number": "0200239053", "lookup_url": "https://onlineexpress.jlg.com/serial-number-search/details/0200239053", "checked_on": "2026-10-17", "authentication": "guest_no_login", "source_id": "jlg-equipment-information", "input_provenance": "Public manual applicability boundary for 3394RT/4394RT; exact machine model resolved by official lookup.", "input_source": "https://onlineexpress.jlg.com/technical-publications/search/english-united-states/model-10m/model-junior-8a/model-dr-1001-ahg-stage-v/model-3394rt/_/N-1063887702%2B1382890170%2B1715418530%2B4158988246%2B1464102402?locale=en-us", "observed_fields": { "Ship Date": "11/19/2014", "In Service Date": "11/19/2014", "Warranty End Date": "11/18/2015" }, "normalized_dates": { "ship_date": "2014-11-19", "in_service_date": "2014-11-19", "warranty_end_date": "2015-11-18" }, "pvc": null, "manufacture_date": null, "manufacture_year": null, "model_year": null, "year_resolution_status": "unresolved_manufacture_year", "confidence_observed_fields": "high_live_manufacturer_record", "confidence_manufacture_year": "not_established", "automatic_manufacture_year_decode_allowed": false, "prohibited_inferences": [ "Do not relabel ship year, in-service year, warranty year or PVC digits as manufacture year.", "Do not extrapolate an annual serial range from this isolated record.", "Do not infer model from a family-wide manual serial boundary." ] }, { "id": "jlg-guest-M200087696", "manufacturer": "JLG", "equipment_class": "scissor_lift", "model": "RT4069", "serial_number": "M200087696", "lookup_url": "https://onlineexpress.jlg.com/serial-number-search/details/M200087696", "checked_on": "2026-10-17", "authentication": "guest_no_login", "source_id": "jlg-equipment-information", "input_provenance": "Public ClearSky kit serial applicability boundary across RT/ERT models; exact machine model resolved by official lookup.", "input_source": "https://onlineexpress.jlg.com/technical-publications/search/english-united-states/model-rt4069/model-600a-hc3/model-c-501-h-x4-stage-v/pvc-not-applicable/_/N-1063887702%2B2690396563%2B1351206730%2B1443540440%2B3269256090?locale=en-us", "observed_fields": { "Ship Date": "02/16/2024", "In Service Date": "02/27/2025", "Warranty End Date": "02/26/2028", "PVC": "2204" }, "normalized_dates": { "ship_date": "2024-02-16", "in_service_date": "2025-02-27", "warranty_end_date": "2028-02-26" }, "pvc": "2204", "manufacture_date": null, "manufacture_year": null, "model_year": null, "year_resolution_status": "unresolved_manufacture_year", "confidence_observed_fields": "high_live_manufacturer_record", "confidence_manufacture_year": "not_established", "automatic_manufacture_year_decode_allowed": false, "prohibited_inferences": [ "Do not relabel ship year, in-service year, warranty year or PVC digits as manufacture year.", "Do not extrapolate an annual serial range from this isolated record.", "Do not infer model from a family-wide manual serial boundary." ] } ], "rules": { "accepted_for_catalog": [ "Preserve the exact date label and provenance when showing OEM lookup results.", "Use model-specific manual scope for country-prefix or plate-location guidance.", "Keep unknown manufacturing years null and visibly unresolved." ], "rejected_for_automatic_year_decoding": [ "02, 12, B2, or M2 country/family prefixes", "A 17-character VIN convention applied to JLG scissor serials without a model-specific OEM rule", "Manual issue/revision dates", "Product launch years", "Component dates or power-module design changes", "PVC digits", "Auction or dealer year labels", "Ship, service or warranty dates" ] }, "out_of_scope_dated_evidence": [ { "model": "1230ES", "equipment_class": "vertical_mast", "source_id": "jlg-1230es-3121223-ag", "classification_source_id": "jlg-1230es-classification", "details": { "france_production_start_month": "2006-08", "france_production_end_month": "2010-02", "france_last_serial": "A200009897", "mexico_production_start_month": "2016-03", "mexico_first_serial": "M130000235", "usa_prefix_transition_month": "2015-07", "usa_prefix_text_ambiguity": "The same page gives 013 in its format example and 13 in its transition note; preserve raw wording." }, "disposition": "exclude_from_scissor_year_decoder", "automatic_manufacture_year_decode_allowed": false } ], "next_evidence_needed": [ "A clear original manufacturer plate with an explicit manufacture-date/year field, matched to the full serial and exact model.", "Or a JLG/dealer record explicitly identifying the manufacturing date for the full serial.", "Or an official model/region-scoped serial/year table or decoder with applicability bounds." ], "authorization": "No accounts created, logins performed, manufacturer contacts sent or existing project records altered. This is additive research.", "sources": [ { "id": "jlg-equipment-information", "title": "JLG Online Express Equipment Information", "url": "https://onlineexpress.jlg.com/equipment-information?locale=en-us", "publisher": "JLG", "authority": "manufacturer_primary", "verification": "Live guest lookup in dot cloud browser on 2026-10-17; four public serials submitted through search UI. Sign In remained available; no login was performed.", "supported_claim": "Public serial-specific identity, ship date, in-service date, warranty end date and, on newer samples, PVC.", "limitation": "No manufacturing date or manufacturing year field observed on the four machine-information results. Does not prove no other JLG system has that field." }, { "id": "jlg-online-express-faq", "title": "19 Questions About Using JLG\u2019s Online Express Site Answered", "url": "https://www.jlg.com/en/directaccess/19-questions-about-using-jlgs-online-express-site-answered", "publisher": "JLG", "authority": "manufacturer_primary", "document_date": "2023-01-01", "verification": "Official public web text retrieved.", "supported_claim": "Serial search in Equipment Information supports build-sheet/component research and the in-service date.", "limitation": "FAQ does not describe that in-service date as a manufacture date." }, { "id": "jlg-pvc-faq", "title": "Product Variant Code (PVC) FAQs", "url": "https://www.jlg.com/dfsmedia/e4042b10c9ce4595b4cc059f1299f079/70312-source", "publisher": "JLG", "authority": "manufacturer_primary", "revision_label": "R031422", "verification": "Official-domain indexed PDF text retrieved; full PDF fetch failed, so no downloaded-copy or visual-verification claim.", "supported_claim": "PVC identifies a six-month block with the same build and helps select the appropriate manual; it is on the serial tag and accessible by serial lookup.", "limitation": "No PVC-character-to-individual-manufacture-date rule is supplied. A design/configuration block is not an exact build-date observation." }, { "id": "jlg-es-3121656-h", "title": "ES Service and Maintenance Manual 3121656 Rev H", "url": "https://csapps.jlg.com/OnlineManuals/Manuals/JLG/JLG%20Scissor%20Lifts/ES%20Scissors/1930ES_2030ES_2032ES_2630ES_2632ES_2646ES_3246ES/Service%20Manuals/SN-0200239382%2C%20B200020297%2C%20M200000100%2C%20and%201200025021%20to%20Present/3121656_H_1930ES%2C2032ES%2C2632ES%2C2646ES%2C3246ES_JLG_Service_English.pdf", "publisher": "JLG", "authority": "manufacturer_primary", "document_date": "2018-07-23", "models": [ "1930ES", "2032ES", "2632ES", "2646ES", "3246ES" ], "verification": "Existing downloaded official PDF and previously visually checked page 1-7, PDF page 19; preserved source record.", "supported_claim": "02 and B2 identify USA-built and China-built machines in this manual\u2019s scope, respectively; left-rear plate location.", "limitation": "Country-prefix evidence only, not a year decoder. The URL directory contains additional model names absent from the cover.", "original_incorrect_url": "https://techpub.skyjack.com/document?id=170469A®ion=NA", "correction_note": "Replaced erroneous Skyjack manual URL with already reviewed JLG 3121656 Rev H source." }, { "id": "jlg-old-es-3121166", "title": "ES Service and Maintenance Manual 3121166", "url": "https://csapps.jlg.com/OnlineManuals/Manuals/JLG/JLG%20Scissor%20Lifts/ES%20Scissors/1930ES_2030ES_2032ES_2630ES_2632ES_2646ES_3246ES/Service%20Manuals/Prior%20to%20SN-0200239382%20and%20B200020297/Service_3121166_11-27-13_Global_English.pdf", "publisher": "JLG", "authority": "manufacturer_primary", "document_date": "2013-11-27", "models": [ "1930ES", "2030ES", "2630ES", "2646ES", "3246ES" ], "verification": "Official PDF downloaded, and official web PDF text retrieved.", "page_reference": "Printed page b, PDF page 4", "supported_claim": "The mid-2010 power-module change is discussed; later USA/Belgium machines may use either module, and China machines use the ZAPI module.", "limitation": "Component-change chronology is not a dated annual serial range. Replaced components cannot establish a machine manufacture date." }, { "id": "jlg-rt-31217162-b", "title": "RT/ERT Operation and Safety Manual 31217162 Rev B", "url": "https://csapps.jlg.com/OnlineManuals/Manuals/JLG/JLG%20Scissor%20Lifts/RT2669%2C%20RT3369/Operation%20Manuals/PVC%202004/31217162_B_RT2669%2C%20RT3369%2C%20ERT2669%2C%20ERT3369_JLG_Operation_English.pdf", "publisher": "JLG", "authority": "manufacturer_primary", "document_date": "2021-09-28", "models": [ "RT2669", "RT3369", "ERT2669", "ERT3369" ], "pvc_scope": [ "2004" ], "verification": "Official PDF downloaded and text inspected.", "supported_claim": "A modern RT/ERT manual explicitly has PVC 2004 applicability.", "limitation": "Its revision date and PVC are not an individual serial-to-manufacture-year mapping." }, { "id": "jlg-1230es-3121223-ag", "title": "1230ES Illustrated Parts Manual 3121223 Rev AG", "url": "https://csapps.jlg.com/OnlineManuals/Manuals/JLG/JLG%20Vertical%20Mast/1230ES/Parts%20Manuals/3121223_AG_1230ES_JLG_Parts_English.pdf", "publisher": "JLG", "authority": "manufacturer_primary", "models": [ "1230ES" ], "verification": "Official PDF downloaded; printed/PDF page 3 rendered and visually checked.", "supported_claim": "France production Aug 2006\u2013Feb 2010 ending at A200009897; Mexico begins Mar 2016 with M130000235; USA prefix changes in Jul 2015.", "limitation": "1230ES is a vertical-mast lift. The page mistakenly calls it a scissor lift; these facts are excluded from scissor-lift year rules. It gives no annual mapping." }, { "id": "jlg-1230es-classification", "title": "JLG 6V Battery compatibility list", "url": "https://onlineexpress.jlg.com/parts/electrical/batteries-and-cells-and-accessories/batteries/jlg-genuine-batteries/p/015796-000?locale=en-us", "publisher": "JLG", "authority": "manufacturer_primary", "verification": "Official public web text retrieved.", "supported_claim": "The manufacturer separately lists ES-series scissors and 1230ES under ES Vertical Mast.", "limitation": "Used only to resolve equipment-class scope, not for dating." } ] }