how to find production numbers by year and model?

[kulgan 1042]

Does anyone know of a resource(not Wikipedia) for looking up production numbers of BMW's by year and model?

I've spent hours searching the web with no luck. I've found total numbers of a particular model built. But I'd like to be able to break that down to ideally yearly build numbers or at the very least pre and facelift models. Like how many 95-98 E38's were built and how many 98-01 facelifts but also to be able to break that down further into models such as 728i 730i and il and so on right up to the 750i and 750il.

This is the type of information I've found so far.

For example the total build numbers for the E30.

By Market:

Market Total_Production

anon 10295

ECE 1812718

IDN 6334

MYS 2771

THA 20631

URY 432

USA 396649

ZAF 94511

By Model:

Model Total_Production

316 126659

316i 385294

318i 556679

318is 41234

320i 461479

320is 3745

323i 98483

324d 76039

324td 28904

325e 152000

325i 352993

325ix 34862

M3 17970

Z1 8000

By Chassis type:

Chassis_Type Total_Production

CONVER 143371

ROADST 8000

SAL 2089266

TOUR 103704

By Motor:

Motor_Type Total_Production

M10 653159

M20 1107817

M21 104943

M40 404674

M42 52033

S14 21715

By Transmission type:

Transmission_Type Total_Production

AUT 419529

MECH 1924812

Edited June 2, 2015 by kulgan

[francoisv 466]

Sure ive posted this before, but this has what you need :-)

http://www.bmwarchive.org/vin/bmw-vin-decoder.html

[E30 325i Rag-Top 2915]

Lots of good info on there, gives production dates for all the series (those that are listed, some are missing) but I can't find anywhere that it shows what volumes were produced in each year?

I have a breakdown of E30 production by year, model, etc. but not for E38 sorry.

[kulgan 1042]

Sure ive posted this before, but this has what you need :-)

http://www.bmwarchive.org/vin/bmw-vin-decoder.html

Thanks Francis.

Theres a lot of info there but still no production numbers. Unless I'm not looking right and thats definitely a possibility.

[francoisv 466]

You could also try putting the last 7 digits of your vin into the real oem site, it should return a 4 digit production code.

[kulgan 1042]

The production code is GG02 but even with that I'm not having any luck finding build numbers.

Edited June 3, 2015 by kulgan

[kulgan 1042]

Ok, So I decided to do it this way.

I went to http://www.bmwarchive.org/vin/bmw-vin-decoder.html Thanks Francois.

Using my vin as a base I worked back till I got to DA63000 built in 28/8/98 so this was the first facelift 750i. Then I went forward till I got to DA63112 which has a build date of 8/6/01. The last built.

So A grand total of 112 facelift 750i's.

Edited June 3, 2015 by kulgan

[E30 325i Rag-Top 2915]

E38 production numbers..

1993 total 50, 750i 3 of them

1994 total 31,075 and 1,351 750is

1995 49,144 and 7,652

1996 50,156 and 3,453

1997 48,896 and 3,901

1998 46,563 and 3,703

1999 40,018 and 2,462

2000 38,980 and 2,048

2001 21,360 and 644

No break down on SWB/LWB though.

[kulgan 1042]

I was reading a bit more about how the vins break down and learned that the D in my vin is for the plant it was built at. In this caes Dingolfing.

So all I need to do now is get the vins from 4 other plants.. ha ha. Hens teeth would be easier.

Edited June 3, 2015 by kulgan

[kulgan 1042]

Talking to someone on another forum last night and he let me know that the other plants were building different models. One was building the 3 series and another the 5 series an so on.

Dingolfing was the dedicated 7 series plant. Yayy

Also worked out that the GG02 build code stands for RHD. GG01 is for LHD.

Knowing that we were able to figure out how many facelift 750i's were actually built.

GG01(LHD) DD9300-DD94557

GG02(RHD) DA6300-DA63112

Grand total of facelift 750i's was 1669.

And as a side note I've been blacklisted from http://www.bmwarchive.org/vin/bmw-vin-decoder.html for flooding...lmao

Edited June 3, 2015 by kulgan

[francoisv 466]

Wowsa, man that's a lot of digging. I only used that site to see if my car (and others) are genuine Msport or just badged. 1669 doesn't sound like a lot on the grand scheme of things and I wonder how many of them are actually still alive.

[kulgan 1042]

Wowsa, man that's a lot of digging. I only used that site to see if my car (and others) are genuine Msport or just badged. 1669 doesn't sound like a lot on the grand scheme of things and I wonder how many of them are actually still alive.

Hours and hours of digging and frustration. When I get onto something like this I'm a bit like a dog with a bone. I really wanted to know and I'm glad I stuck with it.

Your right. 1669 isn't a lot of cars over 3 years of production. When I have the time I might have a go at working out the pre facelift numbers.

I want to go even further with it and see if I can find out from BMW NZ how many were brought into NZ. I'm guessing with only 112 RHD cars made it's not going to be many.

Edited June 4, 2015 by kulgan