2014 BMW 228i WBA1F5C5-E — all VINs
1,002 vehicles carry this factory build. Cars are filed by a fixed rule based on the VIN, so a car never moves between groups.
What WBA1F5C5-E means
- WBA
- the World Manufacturer Identifier BMW registered — assembled in Germany
- 1F5C5
- together encode the 228i line — Coupe, 2L 4cyl — as BMW filed it, these five characters are read as one block, not letter by letter
- E
- in position 10 — model year 2014
- 9, 11–17
- vehicle-specific fields: check digit, plant code and production sequence
Groups
Too many vehicles to list on one page, so they are split by the next character of a fixed code derived from the VIN. Each group keeps its cars for good.