Anyone want to know their car's birthday?

[DesktopDave]

I found another place for this info, combined with the electronic parts catalog:
http://www.bmw.com/com/en/owners/accessories/electronic-parts-catalogue/electronic-parts-catalogue.html

Click the link off to the right & disable your pop-up blocker to open the site.
Username: eu111111
Password: bmwetk1

Then just enter  the last 7 digits of your car's VIN into the little box, and hit enter or click the ">>"  button.  You can find your build sheet by clicking the "options" button in the header strip.

[Geoff]

That one does not seem to work for me..I may try it at home..anyway no options to be seen and it doesnt recognize my VIN?   boohoo

[djmossm42]

Hello, I'm new to the forum and a proud first time BMW owner.  I just bought my E30 318ic Cabrio a couple weeks ago and I love the hell out of this car.  Needs a little love but the previous owners kept it well, wont take much to have it loking and running like new .  It spent half of it's life in storage and only had 117K miles on it. It even had the original owners manual with the audio tape.  

I look forward to learning about this great car and maybe getting to know some of you as well.

[asmir]

Mine is 10-24-1991 (EJ12653) and my sons is 5-20-1986 (9689539).

[ic455]

10/8/1990, shows the triangle and first aid kit on mine too (S428A)

[ic455]

WBAAF9317MEE72989

So I have the newest? 11/01/1991

 What do the steering and type mean? Why does it say power 103?

TIA
Jeff

103 Horsepower......?

[DesktopDave]

I think that's the power rating in kW...converts to 138 HP...
 
http://www.mr2ownersclub.com/converter.htm

[ic455]

I think that's the power rating in kW...converts to 138 HP...
 
http://www.mr2ownersclub.com/converter.htm

That makes more sense, I still forget about the metric system sometimes LOL

[DesktopDave]

Here's another one:

http://www.rubmw.ru/vincode/eng/

Much easier, right on the front page.  Love their anti-bot math quiz!

[djmossm42]

Is there a place to look up the options and maybe find some pics?

[djmossm42]

I think the original owner upgraded the wheels.  S286A

[DesktopDave]

I see you found a site.  I found an even better one than before:
http://www.rubmw.ru/vincode/eng/

Much nicer, though it gets busy at times.

[axisofjustice]

1990-09-10 pretty much have all the parts in my garage to put back on one day as optioned. Except it won't be brilliantrot!

[DesktopDave]

1990-09-10 pretty much have all the parts in my garage to put back on one day as optioned. Except it won't be brilliantrot!

BMW painted an awful lot of our cars brilliant red.  I wonder what the original color distribution was?  From the few I've seen almost all are four colors (brilliant red, diamond black, alpine white and sterling silver).  I'd think that accounts for nearly all of the coupes and sedans.  I haven't seen many other OEM colors on the E30 M42 cars, even though (according to this page) BMW offered ten different colors in '91.