Official Crosley warranty & serial services
Read the plate. Check the evidence.
Identify the equipment and its builder before reading a Crosley serial. Historical water heaters and major appliances use separate systems.
Browse Crosley manuals and guides →Check a documented system
Household appliances with confirmed builder; separately selected, confirmed State-family water heaters.
Choose the equipment family
Match the product, manufacturer and documented serial layout before interpreting a date. The model is a separate label field; a date code alone does not identify capacity, installation date or warranty entitlement.
For Crosley water-heater labels: a confirmed State-family tank can use year/week or documented older letter-month/year systems. Historical month alphabets differ: one table includes I and a later table skips it. In the chart’s year/week layout, 0904 means year 2009, week 04; it does not mean April. Use the labelled build date to resolve context.
Supported major-appliance interpretations depend on the documented builder. Crosley is a private-label name with different builders, so label and model documentation must establish the appropriate appliance family. Record players and radios are outside this decoder.
Scope matters
Research reviewed October 16, 2026. This independent tool applies published rules and retains unresolved years and model candidates.
Matching legacy Maytag household appliances and documented Maytag-built variants.
Two trailing letters encode year then month. The 24-year cycle requires model/era context; legacy serials continued after Whirlpool acquired Maytag. Do not truncate at 2006 or apply to earlier independent brands just because ownership later changed. This brand needs explicit numbering-family selection because independent historical numbering and later licensees differ.
Confirm Maytag-built appliance using model-specific documentation. Brand ownership alone does not establish the date system.
Water heaters only after confirmation of this manufacturer, product family, date-code layout and documented era.
YYWW: first two digits year; next two production week. The 2024 manufacturer guide permits week 53. No model, capacity, fuel or installation date is encoded by these four digits. 2008 is a conservative supported-range limit, not an asserted universal changeover. The October 2016 SAP change uses a 13-character printed date-plus-serial. A bare nine-digit barcode/SAP serial has NO date code and is deliberately not decoded. The supplied historical inspection chart lists additional names, but that relationship does not prove the manufacturer of every product bearing the same brand. This option requires independent confirmation from the unit label or model-specific documentation.
Confirm that this is a water heater and that its rating plate or model-specific manufacturer documentation uses this exact numbering family. A historical brand list or a matching serial shape alone is insufficient.
Water heaters only after confirmation of this manufacturer, product family, date-code layout and documented era.
Manufacturer/CPSC notices document the A-L/M month series with I omitted: L 07 is November 2007; M 07 December 2007. This rule is intentionally limited to the observed 2004-2007 family. The supplied historical inspection chart lists additional names, but that relationship does not prove the manufacturer of every product bearing the same brand. This option requires independent confirmation from the unit label or model-specific documentation.
Confirm that this is a water heater and that its rating plate or model-specific manufacturer documentation uses this exact numbering family. A historical brand list or a matching serial shape alone is insufficient.
Water heaters only after confirmation of this manufacturer, product family, date-code layout and documented era.
The January-June 2004 recall serial-prefix table includes a leading plant character before the month. Do not strip an arbitrary leading letter from every later serial. The supplied historical inspection chart lists additional names, but that relationship does not prove the manufacturer of every product bearing the same brand. This option requires independent confirmation from the unit label or model-specific documentation.
Confirm that this is a water heater and that its rating plate or model-specific manufacturer documentation uses this exact numbering family. A historical brand list or a matching serial shape alone is insufficient.
Water heaters only after confirmation of this manufacturer, product family, date-code layout and documented era.
Archived State manufacturer FAQ lists 1991-2002 and A-L with I included, I=September. This differs from later skip-I formats; do not combine the month tables. The supplied historical inspection chart lists additional names, but that relationship does not prove the manufacturer of every product bearing the same brand. This option requires independent confirmation from the unit label or model-specific documentation.
Confirm that this is a water heater and that its rating plate or model-specific manufacturer documentation uses this exact numbering family. A historical brand list or a matching serial shape alone is insufficient.
Reading your result
Some systems reuse letters or only encode the last one or two year digits. Every supported interpretation is retained. A decade supplied from reliable records can narrow the reading; the tool does not automatically pick the newest year.
Usually the model is a separate plate field. Where published serial ranges actually identify a model, the result shows model candidates and links to their manuals. Overlapping ranges remain ambiguous.
After a lookup, the address includes the serial in a fragment beginning with #serial=. Use “Copy share link” to share the serial and selected context. Opening the link runs the same lookup. The fragment is not a query-string result page.