C R <
[email protected]> uttered summat worrerz funny about:
> Okay, being a newbie Discovery owner, (US Spec 1996 Discovery VIN
> beginning with SALJY1240T...), Does the Haynes manual "LAND ROVER
> DISCOVERY 1989 TO 1998 (G to S REGISTRATION) PETROL AND DIESEL" cover
> my Discovery? What does the G to S registration refer to?
Prefix on the registration of the vehicle which identified the age of the
vehicle unless some one has a cherrished number transfered to it.
On onlder Brit cars prior to a A Prefix (1983) then the letters which
identified the age were a suffix
Example:
G123 ABC - G = 1989 August to July 1990 car, 123 is a sequential number that
the licencing office allocate.. i.e. the next would be 124, the A is
meaningless and the BC would identify the local vehicle licensing office so
you could tell where a car origionated from.
Older cars pre '83 had the suffix for the age rather like my 101 and Series
IIa which are like ABC 123G
Some letters such as O Z I U were missed out incase they became confuse, yet
now our current system inclueds Z's
Current system (just to confuse you further) is AB 01 DEF where as AB is
the area ID 01 is the year and DEF is random, next would be DEG, DEH,DEJ and
so on.
Half way through the year we also get new numbers so a 2006 car could be
AB06CDE or later in the year if registered would be AB56CDE, then next year
cars will be made up of AB07CDE and AB57CDE............. IYSWIM
Lee D
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