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staley_turbo
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Thu Feb 24, 2011 5:07 pm

How do i find out the original dealer of my car?
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Thu Feb 24, 2011 5:14 pm

Send an email to Cotswold with the VIN number and ask them nicely :wink:
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e30topless said : Proper BMW's have 4 headlights, last of the run was the E30 and E34/E32 anything after that is just complete shite
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Thu Feb 24, 2011 5:25 pm

Done. Lets see what they say.
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Thu Feb 24, 2011 6:19 pm

If you're on original plates isn't there a way of finding out based on the last 3 letters? I'm struggling to find the site though!
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Thu Feb 24, 2011 6:22 pm

many E30's still have the dealers sticker on the under side of the boot lid or if you have the service book it will be on the inside cover.
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Thu Feb 24, 2011 6:54 pm

http://www.wolfbane.com/vreg.htm

There you go. Final two letters of your three - letter bit :wink:
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Thu Feb 24, 2011 7:29 pm

beemerbird wrote:http://www.wolfbane.com/vreg.htm

There you go. Final two letters of your three - letter bit :wink:
Wow cool page that. Or am I a sad git? :D
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Thu Feb 24, 2011 7:40 pm

maggspower wrote:
beemerbird wrote:http://www.wolfbane.com/vreg.htm

There you go. Final two letters of your three - letter bit :wink:
Wow cool page that. Or am I a sad git? :D
If you're sad I am too :o:
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Thu Feb 24, 2011 8:45 pm

beemerbird wrote:
maggspower wrote:
beemerbird wrote:http://www.wolfbane.com/vreg.htm

There you go. Final two letters of your three - letter bit :wink:
Wow cool page that. Or am I a sad git? :D
If you're sad I am too :o:
Ditto :)

Just found out mine was from Surrey.
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Thu Feb 24, 2011 8:57 pm

320iAN wrote:many E30's still have the dealers sticker on the under side of the boot lid or if you have the service book it will be on the inside cover.
My touring has a sticker in the driver's door shut.
I've got the handbook pack as well. :D
This is why I no longer drive an E30......

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Mine comes up as Vines of Guildford BMW. Is this 100%? Seems pretty logical.

Just found a boot lid sticker for farmbough bwm???
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Fri Feb 25, 2011 2:11 pm

Mind it would seem was first registered in Reading, but unfortunately as I don't come from round those parts I don't what the local dealers were called in 1987.

Anybody have any idea of the dealers names local to Reading?
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Fri Feb 25, 2011 2:49 pm

Cooper I think.
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Fri Feb 25, 2011 10:18 pm

Its now Coopers,but when your car was new it was Coombes of Guildford.
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Fri Feb 25, 2011 11:47 pm

staley_turbo wrote:Mine comes up as Vines of Guildford BMW. Is this 100%? Seems pretty logical.

Just found a boot lid sticker for farmbough bwm???
Barons of Farnborough, local dealer still going
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