Re: How to decode a VIN number

[Dean Wegner <deanwegner@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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