Quote:
Originally Posted by 740isport  You got it right near the end of your first paragraph - the last 7 characters is what is used. The first of that group (position 11) is the manufacturing facility. The remaining 6 is the serial number issued by that plant and it is unique to that plant/car combination. So the different sites and BMW can lookup based upon just that little bit of information. |
Where do they look it up, though? Is there a database of all the cars that BMW ever made? If so, who gets access to it?