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Can you help me find my vin?
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AH! one more
Pull the engine DME and look on it, the VIN is printed on a sticker on the front from when they coded it at the factory.
it won't be the full vin, just the last seven digits, but I can get the full one from that.
Some have a separate sticker on the cluster with the VIN as well.
If this car was recovered, the new VIN will be linked to the old VIN somwhere. if they could not recover the VIN you won't they are not stupid either and would have looked everywhere you are as well.
Start looking at plastic mouldings and parts, give me the approximate build date and details of the car I can maybe find a vin "range" it has to fall into. Why do you want the vin so bad anyway, it's been re classified anyway and I don't think you can change that?
Pull the engine DME and look on it, the VIN is printed on a sticker on the front from when they coded it at the factory.
it won't be the full vin, just the last seven digits, but I can get the full one from that.
Some have a separate sticker on the cluster with the VIN as well.
If this car was recovered, the new VIN will be linked to the old VIN somwhere. if they could not recover the VIN you won't they are not stupid either and would have looked everywhere you are as well.
Start looking at plastic mouldings and parts, give me the approximate build date and details of the car I can maybe find a vin "range" it has to fall into. Why do you want the vin so bad anyway, it's been re classified anyway and I don't think you can change that?
rick540 said:
One vin decoder site found my stolen/recovered vin to be:
Chassis number 0401712
Vehicle code 0411
Series 259S
Model R 1100 RS 93 (0411 ( 0416) )
Body type 0416)
Catalog model ECE
Production date 1994 / 05
Engine R 1100 RS 93 (0411
Transmission
Steering
Catalyzer NONE
Realoem does not recognize my vin and nor does BMWsa or other vin decoder sites.
I want the vin to find out what year model my car actually is and what options it had. I also want to know if it was originally a manual and then swapped to auto or if it is originally an auto.
etc, etc.
Will try the DME now.
gconry18 said:
mmmmm
The BMW vin format is letter - letter - five numbers
So that cannot be right.
RS93 can make more sense as all BMW's have "type codes" for example my M5 is a "HD98" and my E34 540 was "HE98" my E39 540 was a "DE62"
if your car was South Arican built the last seven digits could start with "B" or "H"
Raybimmer said:
from what I've read the manual 325i diff was a 3.15 and the auto a 3.91. That is quite a huge difference.
On a different note. I still want to see if I can find a matching vin somewhere else on the car to confirm because maybe the DME was replaced at a stage. will look behind the cluster later today.
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