HVAC Serial Number Lookup

Sure Comfort Serial Number Lookup

Sure Comfort is part of the Rheem family, alongside Rheem, Ruud, WeatherKing. Enter the serial from the data plate below to get the manufacture date with a character-by-character explanation, the unit's age, its refrigerant era, and the warranty picture.

Quick answer: Sure Comfort serial numbers (~1990s to present): Letter + 9 digits; digits 2-3 = week, digits 4-5 = year (this format encodes week + year, not a month). Example: W291013412 = week 29 of 2010 (mid-July). The same rule covers Rheem, Ruud, and WeatherKing.

Starting the decoder. The serial formats, the refrigerant timeline and the warranty terms further down this page are already loaded, so you can read yours off them now.

7 of the 41 decode rules rest on a single secondary reference. Where two agree, that is weaker evidence than it looks: secondary references copy one another, and agreement between two is not a manufacturer document being read. Some of the formats on this page are read from the manufacturer's own document; the others rest on secondary references, and each row below says which. A date stamped or printed on the data plate always outranks a serial decode.


Sure Comfort Serial Number Formats

FormatEraExampleConfidence
Letter + 9 digits; digits 2-3 = week, digits 4-5 = year (this format encodes week + year, not a month)Cross-checked across 2 secondary references, alongside a manufacturer document held.~1990s to presentW291013412 = week 29 of 2010 (mid-July)high
4 digits + letter + 5 digits; digits 3-4 = year. Sources conflict on whether digits 1-2 are the week or the monthCross-checked across 2 secondary references, not a manufacturer document. One reference reads the leading pair as a week; the other reads it as a month, and both agree on the year.older units; also seen on water heaters0902C11246 = 2002; week 9 or September depending on the readingmediumThe example shown decodes low: this format has more than one documented reading and that serial fits both.
13+ characters with a factory letter (F, M, G, W, or N) mid-serial; the four digits after it are week then yearCross-checked across 2 secondary references, alongside 2 manufacturer documents held.package/commercial and older spaced formatsAB7E203M129703576 = week 12 of 1997medium
9 digits; the last two are the year, the two before them the weekCross-checked across 2 secondary references, not a manufacturer document.mid-1970s and earlier168252873 = week 28 of 1973medium

Worked Example: Sure Comfort W291013412

Expected decode: week 29 of 2010 (mid-July). Character by character:

Week 29 of 2010 (about July)

W = line/plant letter

29 = week 29 (positions 2-3)

10 = year 2010 (positions 4-5)

13412 = production sequence


Sure Comfort Refrigerant Timeline

Manufacture yearTypical refrigerantNotes
through 2009R-22Standard refrigerant of the era. EPA ended U.S. production and import of R-22 on January 1, 2020; an existing system can still be serviced with recycled, reclaimed or previously produced R-22.
2010 to 2024R-410AFrom January 1, 2010, EPA allowed new R-22 to be produced or imported only for use in equipment manufactured before that date; R-410A was the standard through 2024.
2025 and laterR-454BRheem and Ruud residential moved to R-454B from January 2025. During the mid-2025 R-454B cylinder shortage Rheem temporarily raised factory pre-charge on 13.4/14.3 SEER2 units to cover 30-foot line sets.

The refrigerant printed on the nameplate is authoritative; this timeline tells you what is typical for the age, not what is in a specific unit.


Sure Comfort Warranty Terms

Sure Comfort warranty lookup

No page of Sure Comfort's own for looking up a warranty is linked here, and this page does not read any maker's records, so it cannot show whether a unit was registered.

Enter the serial in the lookup on this page for the build date and the unit's age. No Sure Comfort warranty certificate is held here for a dated term, so the result dates no term, says so, and names what would answer it; a Service Brief carries what is known to whoever works on the unit.

What this tool holds on Sure Comfort's warranty

Current policy: 10-year conditional parts warranty on eligible residential models registered within 90 days of original installation or closing at RegisterMyUnit.com (original owner, original installation location; the newer certificates also require an owner-occupied single-family home); 5-year parts unregistered on most lines. Rheem certificates up to edition 92-26150-31-30 printed a 60-day registration window instead. Rheem's registration portal says Florida installs after March 31, 2024 and Georgia installs after December 31, 2025 qualify for the longest listed parts term without registering. WeatherKing certificate 92-26150-53-13 prints 5-year parts with no registered extension.

The result does not work out a dated term for Sure Comfort: no Sure Comfort certificate is registered for that here. Only the maker's records show whether a unit was registered.

Source: Rheem limited warranty certificates (files.myrheem.com) and the Rheem registration portal (rheem.registermyunit.com).


Frequently Asked Questions

How old is my Sure Comfort unit?

Decode the serial number from the data plate. The dominant Sure Comfort format (~1990s to present) is: Letter + 9 digits; digits 2-3 = week, digits 4-5 = year (this format encodes week + year, not a month). Example: W291013412 decodes to week 29 of 2010 (mid-July). Subtract the decoded year from the current year for the age.

Which brands share the Sure Comfort serial number format?

Sure Comfort is part of the Rheem family, alongside Rheem, Ruud, and WeatherKing. These brands come off shared production lines with the same data plates, so this page's serial number formats apply across the family. The refrigerant timeline above is stated for the whole family, not per brand. The warranty section above is this brand's own.

Has the Sure Comfort serial decode been checked against serials somebody else dated?

Rheem family letter + week-year: Read against 1 serial where a public body's own equipment schedule prints a year beside the serial (Winter Park, Florida; the year sits under a column headed Year, which the document does not define), air handling unit: 1 matched the reading shown first. This format was also read against 4 serials on water heaters (Winter Park, Florida): 4 matched the reading shown first. They are shown for the record and not counted toward this format's check, because the equipment is not a heating or cooling unit.

Rheem family digits-first 10-character: This format was also read against 3 serials on water heaters (Winter Park, Florida): 3 matched the reading shown first. They are shown for the record and not counted toward this format's check, because the equipment is not a heating or cooling unit.

Rheem family long serial (middle factory letter): Read against 3 serials where a public body's own equipment schedule prints a year beside the serial (Winter Park, Florida; Mobile, Alabama; the year sits under a column headed Year on 2, and under a column headed Year Manuf on 1, 2 of which the document does not define), 1 of them condensing unit, across 3 equipment types: 3 matched the reading shown first.

No serial with a date published outside this tool has produced a reading through the Rheem family 9-digit (date at the end) format yet. No document from the company that built the unit is held for it, so the rule rests on the secondary references this tool records.

Across the Sure Comfort formats on this page, 5 serials with a date published outside this tool produced no reading at all (Norcross, Georgia; Winter Park, Florida). A serial this tool reads nothing from is neither an agreement nor a disagreement, so it is counted in neither.

What refrigerant does a Sure Comfort unit use?

By manufacture year: through 2009: R-22; 2010 to 2024: R-410A; 2025 and later: R-454B. The refrigerant printed on the nameplate is authoritative; the year-based mapping tells you what is typical for the age, not what is in a specific unit.

How do I look up my Sure Comfort warranty?

No page of Sure Comfort's own for looking up a warranty is linked here, and this page does not read any maker's records, so it cannot show whether a unit was registered. Enter the serial in the lookup on this page for the build date and the unit's age. No Sure Comfort warranty certificate is held here for a dated term, so the result dates no term, says so, and names what would answer it; a Service Brief carries what is known to whoever works on the unit.

Is my Sure Comfort unit still under warranty?

Current policy: 10-year conditional parts warranty on eligible residential models registered within 90 days of original installation or closing at RegisterMyUnit.com (original owner, original installation location; the newer certificates also require an owner-occupied single-family home); 5-year parts unregistered on most lines. Rheem certificates up to edition 92-26150-31-30 printed a 60-day registration window instead. Rheem's registration portal says Florida installs after March 31, 2024 and Georgia installs after December 31, 2025 qualify for the longest listed parts term without registering. WeatherKing certificate 92-26150-53-13 prints 5-year parts with no registered extension. The result does not work out a dated term for Sure Comfort: no Sure Comfort certificate is registered for that here. Only the maker's records show whether a unit was registered.

How old is my Sure Comfort furnace?

Rheem's own furnace parts list prints a furnace serial that begins with the "TYPE OF GAS CONTROL USED ON UNIT" and carries the plant letter F (the "Downflow/Horizontal Furnace" list). Enter the furnace's serial above: the result gives the date and age and says which document covers it. It covers serials of this layout: a two-letter gas-control code (DG, DH, DC, DF, EH, EJ, EK or EL), five more characters, the plant letter F, then the week and the year. A Sure Comfort serial of another layout is read as usual, and the result says the date is not called a furnace's age.


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