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Car Forum / BMW Cars / August 2006How Can I Find the E Number for My BMW?
I am a new BMW owner. How can I find the E number? It is a 98 528i. Is there a place on the car I can look? Any help would be appreciated. Jeff No, it is not on the car. I am sure you are aware that there are LOTS of 5 Series body styles. The E Number is the factory designation of each different body style. I'm a 3 Series guy, so I don't keep up much with the 5s. I know why there are E Numbers, I just don't keep up with them. >I am a new BMW owner. How can I find the E number? It is a 98 528i. Is >there a place on the car I can look? Any help would be appreciated. > > Jeff > I am sure you are aware that there are LOTS of 5 Series body styles. The > E Number is the factory designation of each different body style. Which different body styles are there on the last generation 5 Series? They're all 4 door saloons.  Signature*Why is a boxing ring square? Dave Plowman dave@davenoise.co.uk London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. >> I am sure you are aware that there are LOTS of 5 Series body styles. The >> E Number is the factory designation of each different body style. > > Which different body styles are there on the last generation 5 Series? > They're all 4 door saloons. Wasn't there also an E39 Touring (station wagon)? I hope Jeff meant "platform" rather than "body style". Tom K. >>> I am sure you are aware that there are LOTS of 5 Series body styles. The >>> E Number is the factory designation of each different body style. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > I hope Jeff meant "platform" rather than "body style". Well, yes. I meant the various platforms. I assume the OP, and everybody exept Dave and you, would not be tripped up by "body styles." In automotive lingo, body style can mean not only 2- or 4-door or station wagen, it can also mean the difference in lines from one generation of a model to another. The body style of the Enn made from the mid-'80s to the early '90s is markedly different from the Enn made from the mid-'90s to present day. Indeed, the 5 Series cars have changed in this time. >> I am sure you are aware that there are LOTS of 5 Series body styles. The >> E Number is the factory designation of each different body style. > > Which different body styles are there on the last generation 5 Series? > They're all 4 door saloons. While it is certainly true that all 5 Series cars have 4 doors, except the station wagen models that have 5 doors, what I was talking about is multiple decades of 5 Series cars that have differing lines. > >> I am sure you are aware that there are LOTS of 5 Series body styles. The > >> E Number is the factory designation of each different body style. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > station wagen models that have 5 doors, what I was talking about is multiple > decades of 5 Series cars that have differing lines. Here ya go: E12 1975 or 76 to 82 E28 1982 to 88 E34 1988 to 95 E39 1996 to 2003 E60 2004 to present >I am a new BMW owner. How can I find the E number? It is a 98 528i. Is >there a place on the car I can look? Any help would be appreciated. http://www.koalamotorsport.com/tech-1.asp or http://www.unixnerd.demon.co.uk/enumber.html FloydR >I am a new BMW owner. How can I find the E number? It is a 98 528i. Is there >a place on the car I can look? Any help would be appreciated. In the UK it would be an E39 I believe. Dave Plowman will give you a defo answer when he logs on again. pete -- http://www.brazierbridgewood.blogspot.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ipswich/ >I am a new BMW owner. How can I find the E number? It is a 98 528i. Is >there a place on the car I can look? Any help would be appreciated. AFAIK the E number is not to be found on the car. Your car will be an E39, but I think the only way to find out officially, would be to check the VIN or chassis number with BMW records. The series number and body shape is usually enough to ascertain what the E number is. Mike. > I am a new BMW owner. How can I find the E number? It is a 98 528i. Is there > a place on the car I can look? Any help would be appreciated. [Stunned that you don't have a definitive answer yet.] The previous 5 Series, ended in 1995, was the E34. The ones before that were the E28 and E12. The current 5 Series (the Ugly One) is the E60. Yours is an E39. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. -- C.R. Krieger '88 535is > I am a new BMW owner. How can I find the E number? It is a 98 528i. Is there > a place on the car I can look? Any help would be appreciated. > > Jeff Yours is an E39 Signature-Fred W Thanks Jeff >> I am a new BMW owner. How can I find the E number? It is a 98 528i. Is >> there a place on the car I can look? Any help would be appreciated. >> >> Jeff > > Yours is an E39 |
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