Explanation of Unique Identifiers Within Your Car's VIN

[shogun]

http://www.autohausaz.com/html/vehic...html#Footnotes

[Torque]

Nice! If you want to decode the E34's (or any other BMW's VIN real fast without referring to charts):http://www.bmw-z1.com/VIN/VINdecode-e.cgi

[zygoteer]

http://www.autohausaz.com/html/vehic...html#Footnotes

Interesting that the site says 'See Note A' for BMW
= "Cannot determine the engine through the VIN code"

... but you can ! refer to the other ref ...

http://www.bmw-z1.com/VIN/VINdecode-e.cgi

also http://www.realoem.com/bmw/ does it correctly too

[Kalevera]

Actually, this is by far the best description of the VIN system I've found as of yet:

http://home.wxs.nl/~fransang/vinsystem.html

As some of you know, I got into what I do now because of BMW; I didn't realize that many of the VIN features present in BMW were global standards.


best, whit

[Randell]

aww crap... my car is only a 91 model !

it's registered as a 92... on the VIN plate it says 07/92, first registered 07/92 in the service booklet..

ahh well, doesn't make a difference in 2005

i'll pretend it's still a 92