2012 BMW 550i WBASN4C5-C — all VINs
108 vehicles carry this factory build. Cars are filed by a fixed rule based on the VIN, so a car never moves between groups.
What WBASN4C5-C means
- WBA
- the World Manufacturer Identifier BMW registered — assembled in Germany
- SN4C5
- together encode the 550i line — Sedan, 4.4L 8cyl — as BMW filed it, these five characters are read as one block, not letter by letter
- C
- in position 10 — model year 2012
- 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.