2017 BMW 540i WBAJE5C3-H — group A
139 vehicles sit in group A of this build. Cars are filed by a fixed rule based on the VIN, so a car never moves between groups.
What WBAJE5C3-H means
- WBA
- the World Manufacturer Identifier BMW registered — assembled in Germany
- JE5C3
- together encode the 540i line — Sedan, 3L 6cyl, Rear-wheel drive — as BMW filed it, these five characters are read as one block, not letter by letter
- H
- in position 10 — model year 2017
- 9, 11–17
- differ on every car: check digit, plant code and the serial number
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.