Re: How to decode a VIN number

[Robert Silas <robert.silas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dean and John,
I typed in my VIN number twice, I've got the message: Error invalid number.
Thanks anyway, may be in Canada the Lic. Bureau does not know what they are doing????????
Bob Silas
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dean Wegner 
  To: oilheads@xxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 2:45 PM
  Subject: Re: How to decode a VIN number


  The following link was posted a while back on the IBMWR tech list.
  It takes a VIN number and tells you the model number and manufacturing
  date.

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

  The site doesn't tell you what the numbers mean, but it might give you
  some more clues as to how a VIN is put together.

  Best
  Dean Wegner
  '96 R1100RT
  West Bend, WI

  --- Robert Silas <robert.silas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

  > John,
  > The serial number of my '94 R1100RS is:
  > 
  > WB1041101R0291658 
  > 
  > I cannot make out a date, neither a year nor a month.  I really do not
  > know what the assembly of these digits represents.
  > Bob 
  >   ----- Original Message ----- 
  >   From: John Van Deren 
  >   To: oilheads@xxxxxxxxx 
  >   Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 6:15 AM
  >   Subject: Re: More beta RS blather..
  > 
  > 
  >   Eric,
  > 
  >   My RS number ends in R0310080, which I thought meant that it is the
  > 80th
  >   unit built (or perhaps the 10,080th one).  I also thought the numbers
  > 31
  >   were in each serial number for the '94's, meaning yours was the 977th
  > built.
  >   The tag also says, 3/93.  I did not think to write Bob's number down,
  > but
  >   the last seven digits were very different (no 3 or 31 in his, a 28 I
  > seem to
  >   remember - perhaps a much earlier bike)...still with 3/93 date.  Could
  > BMW
  >   have built 10K RS's in one month? It's not particularly important, but
  > I'm
  >   curious at what number they started the RS run.  It would give us an
  > idea
  >   how many of these early bikes are around.

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