The CSL production data thread

[NBTBRV8]

I’ve just finished cataloguing one by one all the RHD CSL production data (yes I know, hello ladies). It is a fairly arduous process but I don’t know of anyone else that has done it. I will start on the LHD production data next, but as there are more cars it will take me a few months. So in the interim here is a summary of the key findings.

There were 542 RHD CSLs made according to the BMW ASAP data, there is no listing for cars JC98136 > JC98139, these cars don’t exist as they appear to be the change point from MY03 cars to MY04 cars, there is a production gap in the data for this period too for the LHD vehicles. Of the 542 cars there are 16 test vehicles which have their “Data restricted” with 6 made during the production run in July, the rest in 2002. These test cars are listed for the following markets:

Australia – 1
Japan – 1 (no RHD cars went to Japan though)
UK – 11
South Africa – 1 (Found its way to NZ and was sold through the BMW network)
Oceania – 2 (New Zealand maybe and ?)

The first test car is shown as built on 19/9/2002 with the first production car coming off the line on 10/6/2003. The last RHD car made was a silver car on 17/12/2003 and was shipped out of Europe with a KM/H speedo and 315 MhZ alarm but it didn’t go to Australia. The second last RHD car made was 7 days prior and was a UK/Ireland delivered car.

Of the 542 RHD cars made:
139 (26%) were black, of these 26 were delimited and 49 were delivered on double spokes.
403 (74%) were silver, of these 65 were delimited and 137 were delivered on double spokes.
Thus 16% were delimited and 34% supplied on double spokes.

There were 3 stripped out road racers i.e no options selected at all, all 3 were silver UK cars. These cars were all supplied on double spoke wheels and didn’t have any of the “selectable options” of:
* Deleted model lettering.
* Green tinted upper strip windscreen.
* Climate comfort windscreen.
* Floor mats.
* Smoker package.
* Headlight washers.
* PDC.
* Rain sensor.
* Xenon.
* Air conditioning.
* CD Player.
* Mini disc player.
* Radio.

There were 3 cars fitted with 2 stage brake lights in the last couple of weeks of production, 1 black and 2 silver. The black car went to Australia and the two silver cars had KPH speedos and all had 315 MhZ alarms and went to an unknown market.
The last RHD black car made was a delimited car that went to Australia.

The production spilt by month is as shown below. However it must be noted that some cars didn't come off the line in VIN sequence, it appears as though these had "rework faults" to rectify or were waiting parts.

Build Quantity First VIN Last VIN
Sep-02 1 - JC98001 JC98001
Oct-02 2 - JC98002 JC98000
Nov-02 0
Dec-02 3 - JC98003 JC98005
Jan-03 4 - JC98006 JC98009
Feb-03 0
Mar-03 0
Apr-03 0
May-03 0
Jun-03 3 - JC98010 JC98012
Jul-03 105 - JC98013 JC98117
Aug-03 18 - JC98118 JC98135
Sep-03 121 - JC98140 JC98260
Oct-03 130 - JC98261 JC98391
Nov-03 108 - JC98389 JC98498
Dec-03 47 - JC98499 JC98545

UK cars
430 UK/Ireland cars were made including the 11 “data restricted cars” some of which were made in 2002. Of these:
111 of these were black, 19 of these were delimited and 49 were on double spokes.
319 of these were silver, 38 were delimited and 131 were on double spokes.
1 UK delivered car had a KPH speedo, as did one “Data restricted car”.

49 cars were delivered without a radio.
25 cars were delivered without air conditioning.
10 had mini disc players.
13 were CSL debadged.
208 had a green strip windscreen.
87 had a climate comfort windscreen.
269 had floor mats.
76 had the smokers pack.
281 had the headlight washers. The production cars didn’t get them until car JC98097 on 28/7/2003.
247 had PDC.
203 had the rain sensor.
329 had Xenons.
405 had air conditioning.
328 had a CD player.
381 had a radio.

3 UK production cars didn’t have a battery master switch, seat belt buzzer or additional fuel in tank when built.

2 production cars had the “Omission of outer skin preservation”, a silver car and a black car.

1 production car didn’t get the “Coil on plug” option. This appears to have been relevant to UK cars as all other RHD markets didn’t have it, I guess it is related to fuel quality and emissions.

UK/Ireland Vehicle Production Month by Month

Build Quantity First Vin Last VIN
Sep-02 1 - JC98001 JC98001
Oct-02 1 - JC98002 JC98002
Nov-02 0 -
Dec-02 2 - JC98004 JC98005
Jan-03 1 - JC98007 JC98007
Feb-03 0 -
Mar-03 0 -
Apr-03 0 -
May-03 0 -
Jun-03 2 - JC98011 JC98012
Jul-03 73 - JC98021 JC98117
Aug-03 18 - JC98118 JC98135
Sep-03 61 - JC98140 JC98260
Oct-03 121 - JC98261 JC98391
Nov-03 106 - JC98389 JC98498
Dec-03 44 - JC98499 JC98544



South African cars
60 RHD cars, including 1 “data restricted” test car.

21 (35%) black cars, 3 were delimited and none supplied on double spokes.
39 (65%) silver cars, 12 delimited and none supplied on double spokes.
Thus 25% were delimited all supplied on Y Spoke wheels.

2 CSL debadged.
32 with a green upper strip windscreen.
28 with a climate comfort screen.
All supplied with floor mats, smoker package, headlight washers, Xenon lights, CD, radio, seat belt buzzer.
42 with PDC.
34 with rain sensor.
54 with air conditioning.
4 cars had option S988A which I don’t know what it is.

South African built month by month

Build Quantity First Vin Last VIN
Sep-02 0 -
Oct-02 0 -
Nov-02 0 -
Dec-02 0 -
Jan-03 1 - JC98006 JC98006
Feb-03 0 -
Mar-03 0 -
Apr-03 0 -
May-03 0 -
Jun-03 1 - JC98010 JC98010
Jul-03 19 - JC98013 JC98105
Aug-03 0 -
Sep-03 35 - JC98146 JC98249
Oct-03 4 - JC98318 JC98353
Nov-03 0 -
Dec-03 0 -


Australian cars
28 cars including 1 “data restricted car” which BMW Australia didn’t sell and isn’t on their records as importing, so 27 imported and sold.

26 (93%) silver cars, 10 delimited, 12 supplied with double spokes.
2 (7%) black cars, 1 delimited, none supplied on double spokes.
Thus 39% were delimited and 43% were supplied on double spoke wheels.

All cars fully optioned as listed above and had climate comfort screens fitted.

Australian Build cars Month by Month

Build Quantity First Vin Last VIN
Sep-02 0 -
Oct-02 0 -
Nov-02 0 -
Dec-02 1 - JC98003 JC98003
Jan-03 0 -
Feb-03 0 -
Mar-03 0 -
Apr-03 0 -
May-03 0 -
Jun-03 0 -
Jul-03 13 - JC98027 JC98116
Aug-03 0 -
Sep-03 8 - JC98202 JC98255
Oct-03 4 - JC98310 JC98384
Nov-03 1 - JC98488 JC98488
Dec-03 1 - JC98542 JC98542


New Zealand cars

10 cars plus one South African Preproduction car that was sold through the BMW network which is actually included in the SA data above, thus I will exclude.
8 silver cars, 5 delimited, none supplied with double spokes.
2 black cars, none delimited, none supplied with double spokes.

Options:

10 with an alarm.
10 with Smokers package.
10 with air conditioning.
1 with a CD player.
9 with a radio.
10 shipped with the battery master switch.

New Zealand vehicles (by data deduction)build month by month

Build Quantity First Vin Last VIN
Sep-02 0
Oct-02 0
Nov-02 0
Dec-02 0
Jan-03 0
Feb-03 0
Mar-03 0
Apr-03 0
May-03 0
Jun-03 0
Jul-03 0
Aug-03 0
Sep-03 10 - JC98219 JC98241
Oct-03 0
Nov-03 0
Dec-03 0


That leaves 13 unknown market RHD vehicles 2 were preproduction. Of these 13, 3 where "Oceania cars". The Oceania cars were:

All Silver cars, none delimited.
All had the MY04 coil on plug options which I guess all went to the same market.
All had a green tint windscreen.
2 had an alarm system.
None had floor mats.
None had the smokers package.
2 had headlight cleaning system.
All had PDC.
2 had rain sensor.
All had xenons.
All had air conditioning.
All had a CD player.
All had a radio.
All were shipped with a battery master switch.
All had English literature packs.

That leaves 8 unknown region vehicles. These comprised of:
All 8 were silver, none were delimited.
All had an alarm.
All had floor mats.
All had smokers package.
All had xenon.
All were shipped with a battery master switch.
All had English literature packs.
7 had headlight cleaning system.
7 had PDC.
7 had rain sensor.
7 had air conditioning.
7 had a CD player.
7 had a radio.
7 had a 2 stage brake light.

Unknown RHD market Vehicles(Suspect Hong Kong)

Build Quantity First Vin Last VIN
Sep-02 0 -
Oct-02 0 -
Nov-02 0 -
Dec-02 0 -
Jan-03 0 -
Feb-03 0 -
Mar-03 0 -
Apr-03 0 -
May-03 0 -
Jun-03 0 -
Jul-03 0 -
Aug-03 0 -
Sep-03 4 - JC98201 JC98239
Oct-03 1 - JC98292 JC98292
Nov-03 1 - JC98471 JC98471
Dec-03 2 - JC98538 JC98545

Ther was also one pre-production RHD car, JC98008 that was built as a Japanese car. This is interesting as all of the Japanese production cars were LHD, so I don't know why they would build this car.

And that is pretty much it for the RHD production run of the CSL. I hope that has answered some questions.

If anyone has any specific combination queries please ask.

[Trawler]

Very interesting, are you planning to add any more info on rhd cars?

Can you shed some more light on the battery switch (where is it located) & fuel tank?

[NBTBRV8]

Very interesting, are you planning to add any more info on rhd cars?

Can you shed some more light on the battery switch (where is it located) & fuel tank?

I am not sure what the battery switch is, it is listed as an option but it must be region specific not customer choosable. The fuel reference is just to the factory putting extra fuel in the tank if the car was travelling a long way to the selling dealer as they didn't want it to run out enroute.

I wasn't planning on posting any more info as the combinations are wide and varied, but can probably answer specific questions but filtering the data.

[born2boost]

Thanks for the interesting info!!!

I find it weird that South Africa only had 60 in total? What happened to the other 5? My cars tag shows No.10 of 65...?

Also...I was told by a friend that the Main Battery switch was something that was removed by the dealer from the car when it reached its relative country...it was apparently a switch to disconnect the battery while the car was being transported. I'm not 100% sure if this is the correct information though...

I'm happy to know that my car is one of the few that had almost all of the optional extras! :)

[NBTBRV8]

Thanks for the interesting info!!!

I find it weird that South Africa only had 60 in total? What happened to the other 5? My cars tag shows No.10 of 65...?

Also...I was told by a friend that the Main Battery switch was something that was removed by the dealer from the car when it reached its relative country...it was apparently a switch to disconnect the battery while the car was being transported. I'm not 100% sure if this is the correct information though...

I'm happy to know that my car is one of the few that had almost all of the optional extras! :)

I don't know about the other 5, could they have been LHD which I haven't done yet? Maybe SA had those badges made before hand and ended up only getting an allocation of 60?

[born2boost]

I doubt that...as I haven't seen or heard of any LHD models here, and I know that the law does not allow the importing of LHD cars into the country either...

Is there any chance that your info could be mistaken with the figure of 60??

I doubt that BMW would say 65 but then only produce 60...? I can understand the test car but 5 short seems unlikely?:)

[NBTBRV8]

I doubt that...as I haven't seen or heard of any LHD models here, and I know that the law does not allow the importing of LHD cars into the country either...

Is there any chance that your info could be mistaken with the figure of 60??

I doubt that BMW would say 65 but then only produce 60...? I can understand the test car but 5 short seems unlikely?:)

Don't forget that BMW Germany dictate how many cars the subsidiaries get, so if they started affixing plaques to cars based on their "initial" allocation then by the time the 6 months was up that could have changed. I have no reason to doubt my data, but it could be wrong, but everything I have found and cross checked to date is spot on. 5 does seem like a nice round number to round down by though.

[Yanto]

It's widely known that 98% of stats are made up !




















;)

Seriously, thanks for posting - a very interesting read :beer:

Shimmy, you got competition...

I call for a stat-off :smokin:

[born2boost]

Could be so...who knows?? If it is indeed the case...then that makes the CSL even more of a scarce item in SA!!!

Definitely some good info here...thanks!!

[83SY]

Nice work....:notworthy: some hours put in there! :119:

[Alvchua]

Awesome work!! Many thanks from a South Aussie owner of a SG delimited RHD CSL! :-)

[Chris-CSL]

The post from Roland where he has stated the vin numbers and this thread has been really helpful to get some history on the CSL and my Car I know my car is one of the first RHD CSL if all the information is correct :) so all this goes down on the pad for the Car :)

[CraigMillwardCroft]

Great read :thumbs:

[NBTBRV8]

The post from Roland where he has stated the vin numbers and this thread has been really helpful to get some history on the CSL and my Car I know my car is one of the first RHD CSL if all the information is correct :) so all this goes down on the pad for the Car :)

What post are you referring to and what is your VIN as a matter of interest?

[Teavious]

I think you missed a number of RHD CSL's designated for Hong Kong. I hear that the dealer got 8 cars.

[Chris-CSL]

Rolands Thread link as is http://www.cslregister.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8810

[bryce]

Impressive - well done for putting in the effort.

My car has no options except floor matts and Im not sure if they are original. What would that make my car, 1 of xx? Silver grey.

[Equinox]

Impressive - well done for putting in the effort.

My car has no options except floor matts and Im not sure if they are original. What would that make my car, 1 of xx? Silver grey.

Thats a difficult one because the entire UK RHD list would need to be split into SG and SB then listed how many came with what.

From what I can see if you have no options then you are certainly one of 25 (the amount of cars with no AC) but some of the 25 could be SB.

Its a great read

[NBTBRV8]

I think you missed a number of RHD CSL's designated for Hong Kong. I hear that the dealer got 8 cars.

From the BMW ASAP data there aren't any specific references to Hong Kong, so I really need a VIN to see how their cars were spec'd to take an educate guess on how many went there.

[NBTBRV8]

Impressive - well done for putting in the effort.

My car has no options except floor matts and Im not sure if they are original. What would that make my car, 1 of xx? Silver grey.

PM me your VIN, as no car left the factory with just mats.

[bryce]

Thats a difficult one because the entire UK RHD list would need to be split into SG and SB then listed how many came with what.

From what I can see if you have no options then you are certainly one of 25 (the amount of cars with no AC) but some of the 25 could be SB.

Its a great read

PM'd NBTBRV8 to see if he can help

[NBTBRV8]

PM'd NBTBRV8 to see if he can help

Replied, a rare car you've got! :beer:

[bryce]

The last made of the 3 optionless cars. Chuffed :smt055

[Teavious]

Think there were a couple designated for Singapore as well - you'd be shocked at how much they went for, like all cars there.

I drive a UK import (one of the 422) so I don't have an HK CSL VIN.

[ericyiu6883]

Think there were a couple designated for Singapore as well - you'd be shocked at how much they went for, like all cars there.

I drive a UK import (one of the 422) so I don't have an HK CSL VIN.

Hi Teavious! Ntmu My name is Eric, i own a CSL in HongKong too. do u go Luk Keng for breakfast on Sunday?

[NBTBRV8]

Hi Teavious! Ntmu My name is Eric, i own a CSL in HongKong too. do u go Luk Keng for breakfast on Sunday?

Hi, if you could PM you your VIN that would be great to help try and identify HK cars.

[Olive]

Great Job ! I will wait for the LHD data :-D

[NBTBRV8]

Great Job ! I will wait for the LHD data :-D

Thanks, I've now done 104 with 738 to go :(

I've already found a few French cars, plus German, Dutch, Saudi Arabian, Spanish, Italian, Swedish.

Will post back.

[azrael]

Shimmy on steriods ? :-D

[Teavious]

Hey Eric, would be great to do a CSL meet in HK. Send me a PM and let's get in touch.

[digi]

There are 6 official imports in HK by BMW HK. Our local club has 3-4 of them. They are all fully optioned and they were sold in HK for $1.18M dollars new. Thats 100K sterling. They are all SG. Last time I took my CSL to BMW (HK) the sale people were taking photo's etc. Seems like its a very rare sight for them too.

[NBTBRV8]

There are 6 official imports in HK by BMW HK. Our local club has 3-4 of them. They are all fully optioned and they were sold in HK for $1.18M dollars new. Thats 100K sterling. They are all SG. Last time I took my CSL to BMW (HK) the sale people were taking photo's etc. Seems like its a very rare sight for them too.

I would really love to get a HK delivered car's VIN to identify which batch they were, can you assist with this?

I am about half way through cataloguing the LHD vehicles at present.

[Teavious]

There are 6 official imports in HK by BMW HK. Our local club has 3-4 of them. They are all fully optioned and they were sold in HK for $1.18M dollars new. Thats 100K sterling. They are all SG. Last time I took my CSL to BMW (HK) the sale people were taking photo's etc. Seems like its a very rare sight for them too.


I still take mine back to the dealer although mine isn't an official import. Which garage are you taking yours to if not the dealer?

[digi]

The only time I take it back to BMW is when I need the valve adjustment, other than that there is no reason to pay the premium as alot of good garages in HK have either ex BMW or Merc tech's that own them. They are very competent, but you will need to know who's who otherwise you will have some cowboy working on your machine which isn't good.

The garage I use do not speak English so there may well be a communication problem if you deal with them.

There is a friend who speaks English and he services Mercs, BMW's (he's a BMW nut), Porsche's etc. If you want I can pass you his details. His name is Ken and very well known in BMW circles in HK. He has a E36 M3 white in color / 997 Turbo etc. and everyone knows him as ACKenny. Trusty guy, deals with many wealthy clients and their vehicles.

I don't use him regularly simply becoz he's on the HK Island side and I'm located on the New Territory side, but if I had to have things done and I was on the island side I would go to him for my regular services for sure.

[digi]

I would really love to get a HK delivered car's VIN to identify which batch they were, can you assist with this?

I am about half way through cataloguing the LHD vehicles at present.

Where is it located? I will pm you the details.

[NBTBRV8]

I finished cataloguing all the LHD cars today, I've just got to collate and interpret it all now. A first up stat though is that 303 black cars were built, 135 of which were delimited. 542 silver cars built, 224 delimited.

I'll post the final details shortly.

[Alx]

Once again, thank you for your contribution!

I'm looking forward for the results.

[Neil M]

Excellent piece of work, labourious and time consuming and one not to be undertaken lightly.

These links may be of use, if not already using, in your quest for production information.

Providing you have the last 7 digits of the VIN No, you can access a copy of production data sheet for the individual vehicle as supplied by the factory, this would appear to access BMW's own data:
http://www.rubmw.ru/vincode/eng/

With specific regard to UK supplied cars, if you have access to the Original Registration No. (does not work if on private plates) then in most cases you can find the VIN No. via this link http://www.bmw-warranty.co.uk/Pages/CarDetails.aspx

NOTE: I understand the "shimmy" may be working on this information for UK Cars

May the Force be with You ! ! !

[NBTBRV8]

For those following this thread I have just updated my first post with all the RHD production data. This should be it, I am now in the process of analysing all of the LHD production data and will make a similar post shortly.

[NBTBRV8]

The LHD production run & market is much more complicated to break down than the RHD, but none the less this is what I have established:

There were 841 LHD CSLs made according to the BMW ASAP data, there is no listing for cars JB98408 > JB98409, these cars don’t exist as they appear to be the change point from MY03 cars to MY04 cars, there is a production gap in the data for this period too for the RHD vehicles at the end of August 2003. Of the 841 cars there are 44 vehicles which have their “Data restricted” with 15 made during the production run. These LHD test cars are listed for the following markets:

1 Egyptian market car.
35 German market vehicles.
3 Japanese market vehicles.
5 unknown market vehicles, however of these 5:
3 had Italian operating instructions,
1 had Swedish operating instructions (books),
1 had Dutch operating instructions (books),

The total LHD production run consisted of:
303 Black cars (36%) – 135 delimited – 97 were delivered on double spokes.
538 Silver cars (64%) – 223 delimited – 205 were delivered on double spokes.
Thus of the production run 43% were delimited and 36% were delivered on double spoke wheels.

German market L801A cars – 355 cars (42%)
Japanese market L807A cars – 152 cars (18%)
Gulf market L822A cars – 3 cars (3%)
Egyptian market L821A cars – 1 car (development vehicle)
The remaining cars didn’t have a market option code, so the following numbers are based upon the language in the “literature packs”

German literature, but not a German home market car – 159 cars (19%)
English literature – 19 cars (2%)
French literature – 62 cars (7%)
Italian literature – 71 cars (8%)
Spanish literature – 19 cars (2%)

The first LHD test car is shown as built on 17/9/2002 with the first production car coming off the line on 04/6/2003. There were 10 German market Press vehicles produced in the lead up to the main production run between 05/05/2003 > 08/05/2003 and 1 pre-production car coming off on the 03/06/2003, the day before the main production run started. The last LHD car made (JB98842) was a silver car on 19/12/2003 and was listed as a German market development vehicle which I presume was to be kept in some form of museum. Thus the last saleable production car was (JC98841) and was also made on 19/12/2003. It was a silver car that went to Japan.

There was 1 LHD stripped out road racer i.e. no options selected at all, a silver car with French language and literature pack car. This car didn’t have any of the “selectable options” of:
Radio
Mini disk player
CD player
Air Conditioning
Xenon lights
Rain sensor
PDC
Headlight Cleaning
Toll mirror (Japanese option only)
Smokers pack
Velour mats
Climate comfort windscreen
Green tint band windscreen
Alarm system
Deleted model lettering
Delimited

However, there was a silver car (Italian) that was also stripped of all options as listed above, except it was delimited whereas the French car wasn’t.

There were 8 cars fitted with 2 stage brake lights in the last couple of weeks of production, 1 black and 7 silver. All of these vehicles went to Japan.
The last LHD black car made (17/12/2003) was a delimited car that had German language and literature pack without a front number plate support. The car doesn’t have a country code so I can’t be sure where it went.

The production spilt by month is as shown below. However it must be noted that there were many LHD cars didn't come off the line in VIN sequence, it appears as though these had "rework faults" to rectify or were waiting parts. It was very rare for a RHD vehicle’s production date to be out of sequence to the build date of the cars’ produced around it, but it was not too uncommon with the LHD build, however it did improve as the production went on. Thus the VIN numbers listed below are a guide based upon the build date sequencing with the VIN.

Build Quantity First VIN Last VIN
Sep-02 3 - JB98000 JB98002
Oct-02 3 - JB98003 JB98005
Nov-02 0 -
Dec-02 5 - JB98006 JB98010
Jan-03 4 - JB98011 JB98014
Feb-03 4 - JB98015 JB98018
Mar-03 0 -
Apr-03 0 -
May-03 10 - JB98019 JB98028
Jun-03 126 - JB98029 JB98159
Jul-03 217 - JB98160 JB98372
Aug-03 41 - JB98368 JB98414
Sep-03 169 - JB98415 JB98587
Oct-03 108 - JB98588 JB98693
Nov-03 71 - JB98694 JB98762
Dec-03 80 - JB98763 JB98842

German L801A vehicles

355 German cars were made including the 35 “data restricted cars” some of which were made in 2002. Of these:
148 (42%) of these were black, 73 of these were delimited and 41 were on double spokes.
207 (58%) of these were silver, 109 were delimited and 45 were on double spokes.
Thus 51% were delimited and 24% delivered with double spokes.

182 vehicles were delimited
205 had an alarm
76 had deleted model lettering
98 had green tinted upper windscreen
156 had a climate comfort windscreen
290 had floor mats
189 had the smokers pack
318 had headlight cleaning system
217 had PDC
277 had a rain sensor
316 had xenon lights
315 had air conditioning
349 had KPH speedo
301 had a CD player
2 had a mini disk player
48 were delivered with a battery master switch
1 was made with a seat belt warning reminder (development vehicle)
15 were official press vehicles
5 were photo vehicles (all development vehicles)
178 had the omission of outer skin preservation
1 had the despatch protection pack
1 had “Special BMW individual equipment” but doesn’t list what it was.
1 had control of number plate attachment (number plate locks)
2 pre-production vehicles had Titanium interior strips.
All had warning triangle and first aid kit

German L801A vehicle Build Month by Month

Build Quantity First Vin Last VIN
Sep-02 2 - JB98000 JB98001
Oct-02 3 - JB98003 JB98005
Nov-02 0 -
Dec-02 4 - JB98006 JB98009
Jan-03 3 - JB98011 JB98013
Feb-03 4 - JB98015 JB98018
Mar-03 0 -
Apr-03 0 -
May-03 10 - JB98019 JB98028
Jun-03 126 - JB98029 JB98159
Jul-03 217 - JB98160 JB98372
Aug-03 17 - JB98379 JB98414
Sep-03 166 - JB98416 JB98585
Oct-03 33 - JB98588 JB98632
Nov-03 11 - JB98695 JB98671
Dec-03 34 - JB98763 JB98842



Japanese L807A vehicles
152 Japanese cars were made including the 3 “data restricted cars” one of which was made in 2002. Of these:
28 (18%) of these were black, none were delimited and all production vehicles were on double spokes, two preproduction weren’t.
124 (82%) of these were silver, 1 was delimited and all were delivered on double spokes.

148 had a green tinted band windscreen
4 had a climate comfort windscreen
102 had the smokers package
83 had the interior toll mirror for Japan
43 had headlight cleaning system
43 had PDC
61 had a rain sensor
8 had two stage stop lamps
47 had CD players
105 had mini disk players
1 was a photo vehicle
All had control of number plate attachments
All had acoustic seat belt reminders
All were shipped with a battery master switch
All had a radio
All had air conditioning
All had xenon lights
All had floor mats
All had a warning triangle and first aid kit
All production vehicles had the CSL model designation
None were fitted with alarms

Japanese L807A vehicles Build Month by Month

Build Quantity First Vin Last VIN
Sep-02 1 - JB98002 JB98002
Oct-02 0 -
Nov-02 0 -
Dec-02 0 -
Jan-03 1 - JB98014 JB98014
Feb-03 0 -
Mar-03 0 -
Apr-03 0 -
May-03 0 -
Jun-03 1 - JB98139 JB98139
Jul-03 29 - JB98036 JB98339
Aug-03 0 -
Sep-03 47 - JB98425 JB98579
Oct-03 34 - JB98643 JB98692
Nov-03 31 - JB98697 JB98735
Dec-03 8 - JB98006 JB98841


Gulf L822A versions

3 Gulf vehicles were made, of these:
1 of these was black, which wasn’t delimited and delivered on double spokes.
2 of these were silver, neither was delimited and 1 was delivered on double spokes.

2 had alarm systems
2 had warning triangle and first aid kits
2 had smokers package
2 had headlight cleaning system
2 had CD player
1 had a Arabic literature pack
All had a radio
All had PDC
All had rain sensor
All had air conditioning
All had xenon lights
All had climate comfort windscreen
All had floor mats
All had acoustic seatbelt reminders
All had the model code year in VIN
All were shipped with a despatch protection pack
All were shipped with a battery master switch

Gulf L822A vehicles build Month by Month

Build Quantity First Vin Last VIN
Sep-02 0 -
Oct-02 0 -
Nov-02 0 -
Dec-02 0 -
Jan-03 0 -
Feb-03 0 -
Mar-03 0 -
Apr-03 0 -
May-03 0 -
Jun-03 0 -
Jul-03 1 - JB98332 JB98332
Aug-03 1 - JB98376 JB98376
Sep-03 1 - JB98465 JB98465
Oct-03 0 -
Nov-03 0 -
Dec-03 0 -


Egypt L821A cars
There was 1 Egyptian car produced on 13/12/2002 as a development vehicle. It had the following options:
Sapphire black
Deleted model lettering
Floor mats
Warning triangle and first aid kit
Headlight cleaning system
PDC
Rain sensor
Xenon lights
KPH speedo
Air conditioning
Radio
It was shipped with a battery master switch
Arabic literature
Control of number plate attachment


That leaves 330 unknown market LHD vehicles. I will break these down according to their literature packs as this is the best way to try and determine where they went.

German on board literature, but not designated as German Market vehicles.

113 unknown market cars were supplied with German Language literature.
41 (36%) of these were black, 38 were delimited and 3 vehicles were delivered on double spokes.
72 (64%) of these were silver, 64 were delimited and none were delivered on double spokes.
Thus 90% were delimited and 2% were delivered on double spokes.

57 had the coil on plug option (emissions, not user selectable)
61 had an alarm
17 had deleted model lettering
23 had upper green tinted windscreen
52 had climate comfort windscreen
81 had floor mats
24 had a warning triangle and first aid kit
30 had the smokers’ package
97 had the headlight cleaning system
53 had PDC
70 had rain sensor
97 had xenon lights
110 had air conditioning
108 had CD player
1 had a mini disk player
6 had acoustic seat belt reminders
106 had the German language version
7 had the English language version
9 had the rear O2 sensors disabled (emissions, not user selectable)
13 had daytime driving lights
94 had the omission of outer skin preservation
87 had the deleted front licence plate support
56 had a CO2 control unit (emissions, not user selectable)
18 were shipped with battery master switches

German on board literature vehicles, but not designated as German Market vehicles build month by month

Build Quantity First Vin Last VIN
Sep-02 0 -
Oct-02 0 -
Nov-02 0 -
Dec-02 0 -
Jan-03 0 -
Feb-03 0 -
Mar-03 0 -
Apr-03 0 -
May-03 0 -
Jun-03 20 - JB98043 JB98156
Jul-03 28 - JB98144 JB98366
Aug-03 1 - JB98375 JB69375
Sep-03 10 - JB98457 JB98587
Oct-03 22 - JB98597 JB98673
Nov-03 18 - JB98694 JB98762
Dec-03 14 - JB98766 JB98831


English on board literature vehicles, without a designated market code.

12 unknown market cars were supplied with English Language literature.
1 of these was black, it wasn’t delimited and not delivered on double spokes.
11 of these were silver, 4 were delimited and 1 was delivered on double spokes.

11 had an alarm
11 had headlight cleaning system
1 had a green tinted upper windscreen
9 had a climate comfort windscreen
11 had floor mats
9 had first aid kit and triangle
9 had the smokers’ package
10 had CD player
11 had radio
11 had PDC
11 had rain sensor
11 had xenon lights
11 had air conditioning
5 had additional fuel in tank
1 had German language version, remainder English
7 had the rear O2 sensors disabled (emissions, not user selectable)
1 had the omission of outer skin preservation
1 had deleted front number plate support
None had deleted model lettering
All had KPH speedos
1 was shipped with a battery master switch

English on board literature vehicles, without a designated market code build Month by Month.

Build Quantity First Vin Last VIN
Sep-02 0 -
Oct-02 0 -
Nov-02 0 -
Dec-02 0 -
Jan-03 0 -
Feb-03 0 -
Mar-03 0 -
Apr-03 0 -
May-03 0 -
Jun-03 5 - JB98042 JB98112
Jul-03 0 -
Aug-03 5 - JB98377 JB98407
Sep-03 2 - JB98424 JB98554
Oct-03 0 -
Nov-03 0 -
Dec-03 0 -


French on board literature vehicles, without a designated market code.

67 unknown market cars were supplied with French Language literature.
28 (42%) of these were black, 9 were delimited and 7 were delivered on double spokes.
39 (58%) of these were silver, 11 were delimited and 6 were delivered on double spokes.
Thus 30% were delimited and 19% supplied with double spokes.

44 had an alarm
10 had deleted model lettering
11 had green tinted upper windscreen
19 had climate comfort windscreen
26 had floor mats
12 had a warning triangle and first aid kit
32 had the smokers’ package
60 had the headlight cleaning system
26 had PDC
43 had a rain sensor
59 had xenon lights
65 had air conditioning
56 had a CD player
61 had a radio
5 had the German language version, but French literature pack.
27 had the “Omission of non-combined operation” (emissions, no user selectable)
56 had the omission of outer skin preservation
10 had the deleted front number plate support
27 were shipped with a battery master switch
None had a mini disk player

French on board literature vehicles, without a designated market code build Month by Month.

Build Quantity First Vin Last VIN
Sep-02 0 -
Oct-02 0 -
Nov-02 0 -
Dec-02 0 -
Jan-03 0 -
Feb-03 0 -
Mar-03 0 -
Apr-03 0 -
May-03 0 -
Jun-03 7 - JB98063 JB98146
Jul-03 16 - JB98204 JB98363
Aug-03 9 - JB98368 JB98405
Sep-03 13 - JB98415 JB98540
Oct-03 10 - JB98605 JB98679
Nov-03 6 - JB98737 JB98757
Dec-03 6 - JB98778 JB98817



Spanish on board literature vehicles, without a designated market code.

19 unknown market cars were supplied with Spanish Language literature.
6 (32%) of these were black, none were delimited and 1 was delivered on double spokes.
13 (68%) of these were silver, 5 were delimited and 1 was delivered on double spokes.
Thus 26% were delimited and 10% were supplied on double spokes.

5 had an alarm system
None had deleted model lettering
3 had green tinted upper windscreen
None had climate comfort windscreen
5 had floor mats
2 had warning triangle and first aid kit
1 had the smokers’ package
7 had the headlight cleaning system
2 had PDC
5 had a rain sensor
8 had xenon lights
16 had air conditioning
10 had a CD player
12 had a radio
3 had the “Omission of non-combined operation” (emissions, no user selectable)
12 were shipped with a battery master switch

Build Quantity First Vin Last VIN
Sep-02 0 -
Oct-02 0 -
Nov-02 0 -
Dec-02 0 -
Jan-03 0 -
Feb-03 0 -
Mar-03 0 -
Apr-03 0 -
May-03 0 -
Jun-03 0 -
Jul-03 3 - JB98300 JB98347
Aug-03 1 - JB98388 JB98388
Sep-03 0 -
Oct-03 5 - JB98640 JB98677
Nov-03 0 -
Dec-03 7 - JB98777 JB98795



Italian on board literature vehicles, without a designated market code.

71 unknown market cars were supplied with Italian Language literature.
41 (58%) of these were black, 12 were delimited and 12 were delivered on double spokes.
30 (42%) of these were silver, 18 were delimited and 6 were delivered on double spokes.
Thus 42% were delimited and 25% were supplied on double spokes.

27 had an alarm
6 had deleted model lettering
3 had a green tinted upper windscreen
7 had a climate comfort windscreen
11 had floor mats
24 had the smokers’ pack
59 had headlight cleaning system
26 had PDC
40 had a rain sensor
59 had xenon lights
66 had air conditioning
57 had a CD player
68 had a radio
31 were shipped with a battery master switch
6 had the “Omission of non-combined operation” (emissions, no user selectable)
2 were designated with the press vehicle option, (their production date was out of sequence i.e. they took longer to come off the production line)
1 was allocated as a photo vehicle (its production date was out of sequence i.e. it took longer to come off the production line)
9 had the deleted front licence plate support
All had a KPH speedo
None had a warning triangle or first aid kit
None had a mini disk player

Build Quantity First Vin Last VIN
Sep-02 0 -
Oct-02 0 -
Nov-02 0 -
Dec-02 0 -
Jan-03 0 -
Feb-03 0 -
Mar-03 0 -
Apr-03 0 -
May-03 0 -
Jun-03 19 - JB98053 JB98136
Jul-03 35 - JB98169 JB98357
Aug-03 2 - JB98387 JB98398
Sep-03 5 - JB98490 JB98586
Oct-03 3 - JB98426 JB98674
Nov-03 4 - JB98560 JB98756
Dec-03 3 - JB98765 JB98776


Swedish on board literature vehicles, without a designated market code.

15 unknown market cars were supplied with Swedish Language literature.
None of these were black.
All of these were silver, 4 were delimited and 6 were delivered on double spokes.
Thus 27% were delimited and 40% were supplied on double spokes.

5 had a green tinted upper windscreen
1 had a climate comfort windscreen
10 had floor mats
5 had PDC
None had a warning triangle or first aid kit
All had an alarm system
All had headlight cleaning system
All had rain sensor
All had xenon lights
All had air conditioning
All had KPH speedo
All had a CD player
All had a radio
All had the German version language
All had daytime driving lights
1 was a designated press vehicle
All were shipped with despatch protection
9 were shipped with a battery master switch

Build Quantity First Vin Last VIN
Sep-02 0 -
Oct-02 0 -
Nov-02 0 -
Dec-02 0 -
Jan-03 0 -
Feb-03 0 -
Mar-03 0 -
Apr-03 0 -
May-03 0 -
Jun-03 5 - JB98040 JB98067
Jul-03 3 - JB98038 JB98284
Aug-03 0 -
Sep-03 6 - JB98488 JB98520
Oct-03 0 -
Nov-03 0 -
Dec-03 1 - JB98840 JB98840


Dutch on board literature vehicles, without a designated market code.

28 unknown market cars were supplied with Dutch Language literature.
7 (25%) of these were black, 2 were delimited and 6 were delivered on double spokes.
21 (75%) of these were silver, 7 were delimited and 13 were delivered on double spokes.
Thus 32% were delimited and 68% were supplied on double spokes.

27 had an alarm
2 had deleted model lettering
4 had a green tinted upper windscreen
11 had a climate comfort windscreen
12 had floor mats
12 had a warning triangle and first aid kit
23 had the smokers’ package
24 had headlight cleaning system
17 had PDC
21 had a rain sensor
24 had xenon lights
25 had air conditioning
24 had a CD player
9 were shipped with a battery master switch
27 had German language version
1 had English language version
20 had the “Omission of non-combined operation” (emissions, not user selectable)
2 had daytime driving lights
10 had the “Omission of outer skin preservation” (not user selectable)
All had a radio
All had a KPH speedo

Build Quantity First Vin Last VIN
Sep-02 0 -
Oct-02 0 -
Nov-02 0 -
Dec-02 0 -
Jan-03 0 -
Feb-03 0 -
Mar-03 0 -
Apr-03 0 -
May-03 0 -
Jun-03 3 - JB98089 JB98138
Jul-03 10 - JB98195 JB98367
Aug-03 4 - JB98389 JB98406
Sep-03 2 - JB98423 JB98445
Oct-03 1 - JB98693 JB98693
Nov-03 1 - JB98738 JB98738
Dec-03 7 - JB98779 JB98796



Danish on board literature vehicles, without a designated market code.

5 unknown market cars were supplied with Danish Language literature.
1 (20%) of these was black, which was delimited and not delivered on double spokes.
4 (80%) of these were silver, none were delimited and none were delivered on double spokes.

3 had an alarm system
1 had a green tinted upper windscreen
1 had a climate comfort windscreen
1 had floor mats
3 had a warning triangle and first aid kit
2 had the smokers’ package
4 had headlight cleaning system
1 had PDC
3 had rain sensor
4 had xenon lights
4 had a CD player
4 had a radio
3 were shipped with a battery master switch
3 were shipped with the despatch protection pack
All had day time driving lights
All had air conditioning
All had KPH speedo
None had deleted model lettering

Build Quantity First Vin Last VIN
Sep-02 0 -
Oct-02 0 -
Nov-02 0 -
Dec-02 0 -
Jan-03 0 -
Feb-03 0 -
Mar-03 0 -
Apr-03 0 -
May-03 0 -
Jun-03 0 -
Jul-03 1 - JB98338 JB98338
Aug-03 1 - JB98392 JB98392
Sep-03 3 - JB98477 JB98494
Oct-03 0 -
Nov-03 0 -
Dec-03 0 -


And after many hours (days) that rounds out the LHD CSL production data and the final chapter in my cataloguing of the entire CSL production run. I have found it interesting in looking at the results, it is a pity BMW don’t make this sort of information freely available. In any case, let me know if I have been bereft of detail anywhere :rolleye:

[Roland]

thx for sharing :thumbs:
great job

[CraigMillwardCroft]

That was a lot of work, just need a manual to work it out now :thumbs:

[JBird]

Today someone asked me what number CSL I had of the UK production. I remembered this post, and thought for shits and giggles I'd try to work it out. Should be a sinch from the table below in theory, but something is not adding up. Monthly production adds to 525, but OP mentions 430 UK cars. What am I missing here :smt120





430 UK/Ireland cars were made including the 11 “data restricted cars” some of which were made in 2002.

UK/Ireland Vehicle Production Month by Month

Build Quantity First Vin Last VIN
Sep-02 1 - JC98001 JC98001
Oct-02 1 - JC98002 JC98002
Nov-02 0 -
Dec-02 2 - JC98004 JC98005
Jan-03 1 - JC98007 JC98007
Feb-03 0 -
Mar-03 0 -
Apr-03 0 -
May-03 0 -
Jun-03 2 - JC98011 JC98012
Jul-03 97 - JC98021 JC98117
Aug-03 18 - JC98118 JC98135
Sep-03 121 - JC98140 JC98260
Oct-03 130 - JC98261 JC98391
Nov-03 108 - JC98389 JC98498
Dec-03 44 - JC98499 JC98544

[NBTBRV8]

Today someone asked me what number CSL I had of the UK production. I remembered this post, and thought for shits and giggles I'd try to work it out. Should be a sinch from the table below in theory, but something is not adding up. Monthly production adds to 525, but OP mentions 430 UK cars. What am I missing here :smt120

You are assuming that in the batches per month that all were UK cars, they weren't. They were making UK cars at the same time as other markets. I just took the first and last UK VIN number for that particular month.

Edit:

You are right I will have to go back and recheck my numbers. My data is in excel and when I filtered it I added up the wrong numbers. A quick double check shows that it should be:

Sep-02 1 - JC98001 JC98001
Oct-02 1 - JC98002 JC98002
Nov-02 0 -
Dec-02 2 - JC98004 JC98005
Jan-03 1 - JC98007 JC98007
Feb-03 0 -
Mar-03 0 -
Apr-03 0 -
May-03 0 -
Jun-03 2 - JC98011 JC98012
Jul-03 73 - JC98021 JC98117
Aug-03 18 - JC98118 JC98135
Sep-03 61 - JC98140 JC98260
Oct-03 121 - JC98261 JC98391
Nov-03 106 - JC98389 JC98498
Dec-03 44 - JC98499 JC98544

Total = 430 UK cars including pre-production. I'll amend the thread to check the other countries shortly.

[Rick H]

Where's Neil M - this is his chosen subject . . .

[NBTBRV8]

See my post above, I will correct/check it all and post back. The total number is correct, just the numbers built by month isn't.

[JBird]

OK thanks, sorry, didn't mean to create work for you. Great effort getting all this data together.

Surprised how many CSLs were ordered with the double spoke rims. Almost all today seem to be on the CSL rims - makes me think they had suply issues, and dealers retrofitted the correct ones afterwards??? (bit like with the xenon washers).

[NBTBRV8]

RHD data checked an updated in the original post. I also missed detailing about the Japanese spec pre-production car that was built in RHD form. This is interesting as all of the production cars were LHD for that market. So I have included that bit of info in the RHD post.

Hopefully there aren't any more errors!

[Clubber]

Just noticed this thread. Here is a brief info from Turkish market ;

Turkey imported 8 csl's. 7 of them officially imported thorugh BMW distributor, Borusan Otomotiv in Turkey and one black car through grey market.
Of those seven official imports, 6 are silver 1 in black.
The grey market import is black too.
They are all on the road.
Official imports are all nov 03 productions with jb987xx wins. Grey market one I don't know (smg display has 0 instead of N in neutral position if its a clue)

[NBTBRV8]

Just noticed this thread. Here is a brief info from Turkish market ;

Turkey imported 8 csl's. 7 of them officially imported thorugh BMW distributor, Borusan Otomotiv in Turkey and one black car through grey market.
Of those seven official imports, 6 are silver 1 in black.
The grey market import is black too.
They are all on the road.
Official imports are all nov 03 productions with jb987xx wins. Grey market one I don't know (smg display has 0 instead of N in neutral position if its a clue)

If you know the vins PM to me and I will allocate them to Turkey in my data.

Thanks.

[Clubber]

If you know the vins PM to me and I will allocate them to Turkey in my data.

Thanks.

Unfortunately I can't remember them all. As I said they came in one batch they all had JB987XX.

[NBTBRV8]

Unfortunately I can't remember them all. As I said they came in one batch they all had JB987XX.

I can narrow it down from this. Did they have front number plate holders and what language was the owners manual in and the instrument cluster? There were 9 silver grey cars built and 13 black, so we should be able to discount the latter. 7 of the 9 silver ones were delimited, but he language packs suggest they went all over Europe?

[Mike R]

4 cars had option S988A which I don’t know what it is.


This is the "delete radio" option :smokin: