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Yep tends to be the 80's-90's stuff in my experience.

The vin decoders are pretty intermittent, sometimes they stop working for weeks and then start working again.

Does seem to be VIN specific, my '97 320i shows up as not found. Couple of other ones I have saved seemed to work fine though (a '00 540i & '07 130i) Could be an age thing? My sample size is fairly small though.

I just tried it again this morning, same issue. I wonder if it is blocking me for some reason.

Just bought @Andrewvert. So inlove. Watch this space

A reminder to all Bimmersport Members - our E30 'quick reference' guide is available on our website, for your convenience! This is for many of you who know what parts your need - and can speed up the process when calling us, or enquiring. As always, if unsure - please contact us and we can decipher such for you! 🙂 https://www.euroitalianparts.com/e30-bmw-classic

09 Jan 2024. 188500kms Having got through Xmas, it was time to get back to this car. On saturday morning I pulled it from the garage (started first time, settled into a beautiful idle. 1. Went to BMW Car Club cars and coffee meet. This car is a superb camera platform. Park on side of road, get out and shoot pictures 😀. Easy access to the cavernous trunk to select weapon of choice. Always great variety at a BMWCCNZ meet-up! unwashed e60 in it's natural habitat, yesterday 2. Washed and photographed for Sale Listing. AutoGlym shampoo. Wash, rinse. Wheels with AutoGlym Clean Wheels and AutoGlym Wheel Brush. Rinse, dry with speed towel. Easy. Oh, and disgusting Meguiars Trye stuff that refuses to finish. The Auto Glym stuff is much nicer, though this needs to be used up first. It's probably an envionmental disaster in a plastic bottle, makes the tyres look spangly though. I did some running around in it during the afternoon, collecting daughter's friends and generally performing 'Dad Taxi' duties. It's using less fuel and idles better, moves off from the traffic lights more smoothly since that actuator was replaced. Waited for sun to get low enough for soft light. Shot images, edited. Looking good eh? Scrubs up nicely with minimal effort. Now time to compose ad copy, and list.

Bloody christ dude, of all the things to whinge about... "the youths are showering too much"!? 😂 Get a grip, seriously.

It boils my piss how short-sighted and surface level the whole "sustainability" discourse is nowadays. All blame and finger-pointing at the out-group without any deep and systematic analysis. Both sides in this anecdote look to be misdirecting their frustration and missing the greater point. The old fella in this article accusing the youths of hypocrisy, due to them supposedly "demanding" and not being able to live without all these products and services that were introduced to market whilst these youths were literal children and had no influence on anything. The young cashier is misguided in seemingly believing that purely consumer decisions have the power to change anything. As if "green capitalism" is, ever was or ever will be, a thing. If every single person in society owned a tote bag and drank slurpies through a metal straw instead of plastic, we would still be not even an inch further from being completely and utterly f**ked. Bottom line is - the capitalist system is built upon ever-increasing consumption. More consumption = economic growth = good. Less consumption = recession = BAD. You cannot produce anything without creating waste and pollution. By gearing everything towards higher consumption and economic growth the system literally fuels pollution. To at the same time preach any notion of sustainability is extremely disingenuous. So long as the economy needs infinite growth to function, any notion of sustainability is pie in the sky. Either work towards fundamentally changing the fabric of society and decouple the economy from its cancerous addiction to infinite growth, or shut the f**k up about sustainability. You can't have both.

Here ya go ya old farts The “Green Thing” Back in My Day Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to me I should bring my own shopping bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment. I apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this green thing back in my earlier days.” The cashier responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations.” She was right — our generation didn’t have the green thing in its day. Back then, we returned milk bottles, pop bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn’t have the green thing back in our day. We walked up stairs, because we didn’t have an escalator in every shop and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn’t climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. Back then, we washed the baby’s diapers because we didn’t have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts — wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right. We didn’t have the green thing back in our day. Back then, we had one TV or radio in the house — not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief — remember them? — not a screen the size of the county. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn’t have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the post, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she’s right. We didn’t have the green thing back then. We drank water from a fountain or a tap when we were thirsty instead of demanding a plastic bottle flown in from another country. We accepted that a lot of food was seasonal and didn’t expect it to be flown in from other parts of the world thousands of kilometers away. We actually cooked food that didn’t come out of a packet, tin or plastic wrap and we could even wash our own vegetables and chop our own salad. But we didn’t have the green thing back then. Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus, and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their mothers into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn’t need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint. But isn’t it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn’t have the green thing back then? Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart-ass young person. We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to … Especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced smartass who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much.