Quote Originally Posted by Bill R.
9/91 most cars didn't have them. Only after. If your car had one then will have a decal in the glove box about it.

This car had a couple of them installed according to the service records I got with it.
Car was bought in Germany by an Air Force Officer and was religiously serviced by the dealer, till he gave the car to his sister a couple years ago. That is when it seems the car wasn't serviced as much as before.
Plus I couldn't imagine what 15 years without a filter would look like.
I'd say for this one, it was a couple years without one.

I agree about changing the filter, it is pretty easy. Just spending an hour trying to throughly cleaning the Evap. was the killer. I'm a big guy too (6'-5") which didn't help.

Thats kind of lame, that BMW would design it for use with a filter, but not deliver it with one installed.