Series 2 Coil Springs

Guys, you may be able to advise...

Im likely buying a series 2 in the morning. Its off the road and in need of some finishing.

This is not going to get rebuilt just yet. I just really fancy it for doing maybe next year.

Its on a new galvanised chassis.

But the chassis is coil spring set up.

Im told the chassis is not stamped as such but is new and not a blasted, refurbed one.

so just wondering...

I have heard you can buy a chassis like this for them.

But should it be stamped etc?

Chassis was bought but fitted by owner.

Would you say this sound kosher?

And can the Coil Spring chassis throw up problems in tax exempt landy...I refer to all this stuff about radical mods etc that you read about online that people say cause them problems with licensing etc.

Nearly too much info inline to decipher.

afaik, no the chassis doesn't need stamped but you should have the receipt.. in reality i doubt anyone cares.

but the coil conversion would mean the chassis is altered and so you should lose the s2 plates.

that's if anyone bothers checking it and if the conversion wasn't done before the law were brought in.

one problem people have with coil sprung series isn't that they are rivet counters, but that scummers scrap series and stick the plates on a defender pretending it's a coil sprung series for the tax exemption. this is ringing and the defender might be nicked.. who knows!

so make sure it's not a defender underneath and yes if found out it would cause issues with the tax exempt status.

if the landy is legit, a good price and all that and you were concerned about the springs, you could flog the galv chassis and stick a galved leaf chassis on.