Individual?
 

Hey there, I was just under the bonnet ( hood ) of mine today filling up the windscreen washer and I noticed that on one of the plates on the suspension mount had the word 'individual' on it.

Ive heard the word 'individual' mentioned a few times but whats the difference between one and a standard Sport for instance?

Sorry for all the dumb newbie questions...I just want to be an expert Ti owner by the years end :)

Individual usually refers to a car that has options that it normally would not have. It might be a special color paint or interior. Can you take a picture of the plate? I would be interested to see what that looks like.

Have you had Mallard decode your VIN? It might tell you what that plate refers to.

Yes, ill take a pic and post it up tomorrow!

Mallard hasnt decoded my VIN but im going to ask him nicely and see what he says

Thanks :)

Few ti's in the US where individual. I only know of one. That one had M3 brakes from the factory. I thought the UK SE was considered an Individial since they where Dakar Yellow. Come to think of it, the California Edition in the US was an Individual.

I doubt if the VIN will be there. My guess it's only US VINs.

Ahem... Club Sport is also and Individual, eh?
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k1...rochurepg1.jpg

I've spent some time under the hood, but I don't recall seeing this. I'll have to check this out.

You're not going to.
By 1998 the CA roof was an option in the brochure. I had one.

Dude , give me the Vin and ill find out what the Indi spec is :D

chances are its interior colour on the stering wheel, and possibly paint colour.. but you never can tell ;)

I took a look under my hood, and couldn't find a tag that had individual on it either. I wonder if they only did that if the color was individual.

There is a door threshold cover for Individual.
http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts...=51&fg=55&hl=8

Individual is anything paint, interior (seat coverings and steering wheel) and roof cover that the customer specified from the Individual catalogue. The catalogue was included in every customer options list, But isn´t classified as an "option"..


Although the indi roof colour was only available in black, the referance has also become known as "sport" roof lining.

In the US you had to jump through hoops to get anything under the Individual Program. I wanted my 98 in Dakar Yellow. I called and called. Finally I got a hold of someone at BMW NA and confronted him, is there such a thing as the Individual Program? They finally got back to me. I could have my Dakar Yellow for an additional, I think $1500, but no guarantee when it would be built. In other words. Sure, you can have your Dakar Yellow for a price. But we will make it when we feel like it. It wasn't worth $1500 to me and thank goodness I didn't get it. Dakar Yellow seemed to fade anyway.

Mallard did the business and pulled all the info of the VIN number

I was suprised by some of the items that were included under the 'Individual' program

http://www.318ti.org/forum/showpost....&postcount=877

Big thanks to Mallard for being the guru :)

Heres a pic of the plate as promised!

http://i36.tinypic.com/e8stj7.jpg

http://i33.tinypic.com/15502fn.jpg

was your that steering whell stock? they came onthe the Z3, maybe that's what's individual about your car isnce the only other peoeple I'cve seen have added them onthmselves