Japan is J, South Korea is K, England is S, Germany is W, and Sweden or Finland is Y. In this group, the first digit or letter identifies the country of origin.The first group of three numbers and letters in a VIN make up the world manufacturer identifier (WMI). There's even a bit of fraud detection in the VIN, in the form of the "check digit," described below. Someone here, however, will recognize its source.Īnd if you purchase the car, and wish to return it to a more "original" configuration, I'm confident you can easily find a good tii block (or even a non-tii block, drilled for the Kugelfischer oil drain).VIN information is organized in groups, and a search of your vehicle identification number can tell you a lot about your car. Maybe a photo of the right side of the block in that area would shed some light on the block's date, and hence its origins - if that even matters. What's that about? Could this be a replacement block for a 1.8-liter e21? Many BMW 4-cylinder blocks have dates on their right sides, in approximately the vicinity of number 2 cylinder. I'm also not accustomed to seeing that random "0" preceding the 7-digit VIN. If I put 1512567 in - which is not set up solely for '02's - I get an M20 engine from a '81-'94 e30, specifically a 323i. But my block is not exactly a model of engine stamping technique! I don't have a particularly good photo of the engine number boss on my '73, but I'll show you what I've got (two photos below). And unlike virtually every '02 block I've seen, the "1.8" is viewable from the same direction as the engine number: it's generally oriented 180 degrees from the engine number.
This boss appears to say "1,8" on its block, above the VIN.
The engine number boss also, generally, shows the block's displacement in liters: obviously a tii has "2,0" on its block. But I'm certainly not convinced this is a 1.6-liter engine from that car.
So the original VIN 1512567 would have probably been assigned to a December '66 car. And narrowing the 2002 Club of Columbia's date range, the 151xxxx cars did not appear until November '66: There was not a separate set of U.S.-spec VIN's for the early cars, because the differences were relatively minor and superficial, so even the U.S.-imported cars show up as "Euro" in the BMW database. Yes, I see VIN 1512567 being a 3/66 -12/66 1600-2, if I put the number into the VIN decoder of the BMW 2002 Club of Columbia.
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