Enter your GE or Hotpoint appliance's serial number to find its manufacture date — free, instant, no sign-up required.
Works for GE and Hotpoint refrigerators, washers, dryers, dishwashers, ranges, ovens & microwaves.
Not sure where to look? See where the tag is on your appliance ↓
The model/serial tag is usually a printed sticker or metal plate. Common locations by appliance type:
Inside the fridge compartment, along the side wall, or behind the crisper/produce drawer.
Inside the door frame, on the front-facing edge, or on the back of the top panel.
Inside the door frame, or on the inside of the lint filter housing.
On the edge of the door, visible when the door is open.
Inside the storage drawer at the bottom, or along the door frame.
Inside the door frame, along the edge visible when the door is open.
GE (and Hotpoint, which is part of the GE family) encodes the manufacture date into the first two characters of the serial number:
Why we show more than one possible year: because GE's year code repeats on a 12-year cycle, a given letter is genuinely ambiguous between years that are 12 years apart (e.g. 1996, 2008, and 2020 could all share the same year letter). Our tool shows every realistic candidate year rather than guessing — here's how to narrow it down further:
This tool is based on GE's publicly documented serial number format and is provided as a helpful estimate. It is not an official GE lookup service, and results should be treated as a best estimate rather than a certainty.
Enter the serial number from the model tag above. GE's format tells you the exact month and a year letter that repeats every 12 years — we'll show you every realistic year that letter could match.
Yes — Hotpoint is part of the GE family and uses the same serial number date-code format.
Because that's genuinely all the serial number tells you. GE's year letter repeats every 12 years, so any tool claiming a single certain year from a GE serial alone is guessing — we'd rather be upfront about the real limitation than give you false confidence.
Once you know roughly how old your GE appliance is, our technicians can help you decide whether a repair still makes sense — try our Repair or Replace tool or call us for a same-day estimate.
Same-day service available. $75 service call applied toward repair.
