R12S Vin Numbers...

Ben Carufel · 08-09-2012, 10:49 PM

I'm curious how high the R1200S VIN#'s go.

I was doing some poking around tonight and noticed that the R12S I'm picking up next week was built in 9/2006, the last production month for North America according to REALOEM.

The bike is #30514. Any idea how that might correlate to overall North American production?

tjs · 08-10-2012, 05:29 AM

next to the last one. zp30515 is the last listed.tjs

Ben Carufel · 08-10-2012, 07:48 AM

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Originally Posted by tjs

next to the last one. zp30515 is the last listed.tjs

Interesting. Thanks for the info. Where'd you find that?

kpolito99 · 08-10-2012, 03:22 PM

I am the 3rd owner to be riding ZP30446.

BeemerBob · 08-10-2012, 04:49 PM

How do you find information on a specific VIN #? I'd like to research mine since I am supposedly the 3rd owner.

ckcarr · ckcarr's Garage

If you have a good relationship with your dealer they can pull the bike information. Probably won't tell you much, only if a recall service was done and maybe general services (I doubt this). Don't think they share the personal information though. Can tell you where the bike was originally sold, but doesn't give owner names. Wonder if Carfax does motorcycles now? I did this a while back. There is some confusion because of two systems, or a conversion.. or maybe it was unfamiliarilty.

If an independent does work that will not get entered anywhere.

It gets back to an owner keeping good records, and passing those on to the next owner (even if copies).
You can always go backwards and talk to the prior owner, etc...

New owners worrying about vin numbers need to make sure that the EWS ring recall was performed. Other than that, they are all the same.