Reg date

Hi everyone
i have a late registered Disco 1 on a T plate. The Reg date is
1/4/1999. Has anyone got one Registered after that date?Mine must have been one of the last!!!
Regards Wisker

Mine was registered on 01/07/1999, a couple of months later than yours.

Last of what? your vehicle reg, number may be T but the last D1s were still the 1998MY introduced in September 1997.
In mid 1998 D1 production had ceased and was given over to the D2 which from November 1998 was for sale the showrooms although there were a few LR demo vehicles running around then.
So from production to registration it could in theory have been a year standing around.

I purchased my disco in September 1997 when the 1998MY D1s were also in the showrooms, so it's not unknown for outgoing models to be along side the newer ones.

I have now seen first hand two Disco 300s on W plates, Mark Saville at LRO has one, the other I can't remember whose it was, a friend I think.

Regards Mark's, we had a look at it and it was legit, just late registered, but bizarrely was a WA chassis I think.

He said he never even noticed, must be more of a Series expert!

Not strange at all, all 1998MY disco's have WA in their VIN, 97s is VA

That something u don't see now fields full on Land Rovers for sale, or any other vehicle for that matter.

Oh right!

I thought WA was relating to the registration letter, or at least the model year which therefore would end up with that registration letter.

For example my 92 J reg is a JA chassis...

So, how did they end up with 98 R and S reg cars on WA chassis numbers??

Mr Noisy said:

Oh right!

I thought WA was relating to the registration letter, or at least the model year which therefore would end up with that registration letter.

For example my 92 J reg is a JA chassis...

So, how did they end up with 98 R and S reg cars on WA chassis numbers??

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Land Rover FAQ: Repair & Maintenance - Series - Chassis Numbers by Year

Every year there are two "model years " of vehicle being sold at some time, both VA and WA we're being sold in 1997. So R registration.

The year of build and the year of registration are two separate things.

Factories build cars year on year. The factory new 'model' year usually starts in september.

New cars normally are registered once they are sold.

Example:

Car is built in sept 1997 so it's a 1998 model year and in the case of a Disco TDi 300 it'll have a WA vin number. This same car is in storage for a long time and is not sold until march 1999, so that would make it a 'T' reg.

Some Disco TDi 300's are even on V or W reg. but still WA on the vin.

Our D2 is a November 1998 build (I have the factory build sheet) and wasn't registered until June 1999, by Rover:

Rover Group MVO Dept
Company Vehicle Control
PO Box 398 Longbridge,
Birmingham B31 2TB

Whoever had it knocked up the miles fairly quickly, 12814 miles by December of that year, but I have no idea why it wasn't registered for nearly 8 months after being built.

Peter

Yeah I get the difference between build date and ref date.

Point being every disco I've ever seen has the same chassis letter as registration letter, as if land rover planned it that way.

Thus, how did they end up with intentional WA chassis on R and S plates cars?

Or at least it seems in earlier years they were more accurate, maybe as production numbers went up the chassis numbers ran away with themselves?!

I don't know

Mr Noisy said:

Yeah I get the difference between build date and ref date.

Point being every disco I've ever seen has the same chassis letter as registration letter, as if land rover planned it that way.

Thus, how did they end up with intentional WA chassis on R and S plates cars?

Or at least it seems in earlier years they were more accurate, maybe as production numbers went up the chassis numbers ran away with themselves?!

I don't know

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The coincidence that you are trying to point out, is just that.

Sept 97' to '98 build year for Discovery has a WA chassis no.

Sept '96 to sept '97 has a VA chassis no.

Sept '95 to sept '96 has a TA chassis no. etc etc going in alphabetical order.

This has nothing to do with the registration process.

Therefore a VA chassis could be a reg anytime after sept '96.

This is often due to lack of sales versus production, but in 1998 LR were trying very hard to sell off all their TDi 300's whilst at the same time releasing the new model Discovery II.

Who would want to buy a Disco I in '98 or '99 when they could now buy a DII for almost the same money? Bear in mind no-one really new what DII was like, it just looked so much more like an RR at the time. Also bear in mind the DII's in 1998 were not being bought by enthusiasts like you and me, doing their own servicing and worrying about chassis rot; they were bought by relatively wealthy peeps who bought them often because they were very fashionable at that time.

Thanks for the info guys.
Regards Peter