Why does this matter when buying a used BMW?
Because the car is usually not where you are. A Romanian buyer imports from Germany. A Polish buyer flies to Italy. A Croatian buyer looks at a Spanish import. The records exist in every one of those cases, but until now the person paying could not always read them.
Two things change when every step is in your language. You can read the full history in the language you think in, which is where mistakes get avoided. And you can order it in the seller's language, which makes for a short conversation with a dealer who suddenly knows you can see what he sees.
Does the language change what is in the report?
No. The content is identical in all 17: service history, mileage overview, technical campaigns, warranty, factory equipment and retrofits, plus the Report Summary with its 0 to 100 condition score. The free BMW VIN decoder speaks all 17 languages too.
The score comes from fixed rules applied to the car's own records, so the same car always gets the same number. Only the words around it change.
What is new in the six new languages?
Each one has its own site, written in the words local buyers actually use: chassisnummer in the Netherlands, VIN kodas in Lithuania, VIN-код in Ukraine, número de chassis in Portugal, αριθμός πλαισίου in Greece and VIN číslo in Slovakia. Visitors from the Netherlands and Belgium land on the Dutch site, those from Greece on the Greek one, and the other four countries each on their own. Every page there links to the same report you can order from anywhere.
How do I switch?
The country selector in the header changes the site and remembers your choice. A country that reads more than one of our languages, such as Belgium, Switzerland or Canada, lets you choose the language too. The report comes in the language of the page you order from, and you can read it in any of the others by changing the language on the report page. Prices follow the country you visit from and show in local currency where we support one, which now includes the Ukrainian hryvnia.
Support speaks your language too: write to us in any of the 17 languages and we reply in the same one.
