jamescronin
Active Member
I guess that will be cheeper than paying £200 a day !
Will wait and see whats happening about it before i pay the money
Will wait and see whats happening about it before i pay the money
Funny you should say that - the next time I drive through Lambeth I'm going to stick some iffy plates on and commit every offence in the book. It will cost them more than £120 trying to trace the plates for every offence.Time to swap the plates
My job in 2008/99 was fitting the silencer filters to trucks to enable them to pass the emissions test for LEZ, after fitting we tested each vehicle and filled in the form for LEZ - always passed (legit). Knowing the emission levels on your 200tdi engine it will pass if it is runing well, so why not find a station that will test it and send in the paperwork for you?For years Ive read all the Land Rover magazines, I saved my spare cash and spent hours poring over Autotrader, Ebay and Pistonheads. Finally this year I got what I wanted a Defender 110 Station wagon The only problem is that because its a 200tdi, it looks like I wont be able to keep it because of the final implementation of the Low Emission Zone in 2012 damn! (I know I should have saved for another five or ten years when I could have afforded a TD5 or even move away from London!)
I havent taken this lying down and since July I have been trying to persuade DVLA to properly classify my 1993 200tdi 110 County Station as an estate car rather than as a Light Utility Vehicle. To prove my point I have sent them photos, a copy of the original build card and a letter from Land Rover confirming that it was constructed as a Station Wagon and as such a passenger vehicle and not a goods vehicle. Unfortunately all of this was a waste of time as DVLA has point blank refused to reclassify my Land Rover. They have stated that they do not use the description Station Wagon and as far as they are concerned it is correctly classed as a Light Utility Vehicle and unless Land Rover categorically state that it is an estate car then it should stay so. (Unfortunately Land Rover wont go so far).
I am extremely annoyed with DVLA as I know from numerous Land Rover Forums that owners have been successful with applications to change the body type of Station Wagons to estate cars. What I am asking is, please can anyone who has done this e-mail me at nicholas.jones05@tiscali.co.uk with their details and the details of their Land Rover. I want the information to demonstrate to DVLA that they have already done for other owners what they refused me and as such their decision is perverse and possibly unlawful. If DVLA still refuse then Im going to get some legal advice on the issue. I cant see how they can allow some applications and turn down others.
I do realise that all this is like banging my head against a brick wall but at least it will be nice when I can stop.
Thanks
Millhillbilly you have an Email.
Don't tell the world otherwise the govt WILL put somthing in place to stop it from working.
Cheers
Jai
I would be interested to hear of that Jai if possible? I only just discovered this thread, and one of my workshops sits just 2 miles outside the zone, which is going to make life virtually impossible for me if this actua;;y happens.
I think I would have to get rid of the old girl.