Things I've learned today

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I've learned today that the DVSA site that offers up suggestions as to where you can get IVA tested is misleading as most of the test centres are either closed permanently or private and do not do vehicles other than their own. However my chassis stamp has been signed off by my local garage which is the first plus in an otherwise rotten IVA day.
 
nigel cartwright said:
I've learned today that the DVSA site that offers up suggestions as to where you can get IVA tested is misleading as most of the test centres are either closed permanently or private and do not do vehicles other than their own. However my chassis stamp has been signed off by my local garage which is the first plus in an otherwise rotten IVA day.
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What do you mean that your chassis stamp has been signed off by your local garage ?
 
nigel cartwright said:
DVLA have issued me with a new chassis number, current chassis had no visible number, this has to be applied to the chassis and confirmed in writing by a dealer .
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That's what I thought you meant, it's what I had to do with mine; though mine was a new chassis that I had made to my spec. When you say there was no visible chassis number, did you look in the right place, and where had you had the new chassis/Vin number stamped ?
 
first reg date was march 64, but that applies to the reg number, my guess is somewhere along the line the vehicle lost its identity The bulk head and windscreen are series landy, as for the rest its as much 110 or defender as anything else, it opens up a huge hornets nest when you buy a Landy and want it properly legal, due to the interchanging of parts and general fear of notifying the dvla of changes people just dont.. i want it legal. How many people swap engines without telling the dvla? or pop a new axle on.. and so on..
 
nigel cartwright said:
first reg date was march 64, but that applies to the reg number, my guess is somewhere along the line the vehicle lost its identity The bulk head and windscreen are series landy, as for the rest its as much 110 or defender as anything else, it opens up a huge hornets nest when you buy a Landy and want it properly legal, due to the interchanging of parts and general fear of notifying the dvla of changes people just dont.. i want it legal. How many people swap engines without telling the dvla? or pop a new axle on.. and so on..
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If the windscreen is from a Series, then so must be the roof. Series windscreens were made up of 2 panes of glass (toughened on early screens, not laminated) separated by a glazing bar. Though I do know from what I saw in a magazine years ago, some company was making one screens for the Series. I can't remember whether you bought their glas and cut out the centre bar or if you could buy the complete made up assembly.
Series bulkheads had permanent welded on screen support brackets that would allow you to fold the screen forward down onto the bonnet if you had a soft top or no roof at all. When Land Rover started building Defenders the new screen support brackets bolted on and would not allow the screen to fold.
You are doing the right thing in going for IVA to get the vehicle a legal identity, but my guess is they will give you a real grilling before they pass it, if indeed the do pass it.
I agree with you, that a lot of people don't notify changes of engine, fuel, colour etc. They will be the ones whose vehicles are held by the Police for scrutiny after it's found that something does not match DVLA records. And the Police will then have the time, resources and equipment to reveal ground off Vin and engine numbers.
You are not obliged to notify the DVLA of any replacement gearbox, transmission, axles or steering box serial numbers as there is no place for them on the V5, but if the Police have your vehicle they have the links to ask the vehicle manufacturer to disclose the Vin of the vehicle that any of these major units where originally fitted to.
 
I have twin screens , (glass needs replacing no safety marking ) pretty sure it has that hinge on the bulk head. I recall when i was a teenager a visit to the breakers yard with a few tools and a couple of quid was how everyone kept there Ford Cortinas on the road, dare say Land rovers were similar, no records of engine numbers etc were kept by anyone, if it fails and is beyond repair I'll be gutted,its in great condition on the outside as well as underneath, I'll find a way to use it be a real shame to break it down...
 
If I were you, I'd spend a bit of time with a wire brush on an angle grinder, looking for a vin number on that chassis leg. It could clear things up. If there really isn't anything there, then it may be a replacement 110 chassis - you have mentioned that the chassis is in good nick.
 
That servicing my Citroen Berlingo only costs 38 quid and that I can do it myself rather than paying 150 at a garage. I did this because of my Landy and the fact I realised anybody with spanners can do these things with a little nudge from the experts on LZ!
 
Today I learned that the Aeroline fan switch thermostat wants to operate at its' 50 degrees when the gauge says near 100 degrees .. who cares as long as it is consistent .
 
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