Re: How to decode a VIN number

["John Van Deren" <r11rider@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob,

I entered your number (last 7 digits) and I received info on your bike!
Yours is number 10,728 of the RS run...mine is number 19,150 of the RS run.
They made a lot of bikes in March '93.

John Van Deren

- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Silas" <robert.silas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <oilheads@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: How to decode a VIN number


> 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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