Understand that I am thick and at the beginning of a learning curve.

He cancelled the order so he doesnt have to ebay fees

Also going back to insurance I get 1 days cover of temporary insurance to get a new vehicle home, can do it on your phone as easy as taxing.
Think its about 30 quid per day

Mackers said:

I did start this post admitting I was a bit thick (big grin this is). Haven't learned the emotion faces yet (or at least I haven't taught my brain to read them like words yet). I drove it back cos I'm insured to drive any vehicle, like hire cars and things like that. It's on the drive now. Anyway. It's dark outside but the flash has picked it up. The bonnet pull is on a wired and came off the bracket, so another thing I have to get sorted. Here's the pics but will take better ones tomorrow

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Where have they located the air filter? Looks like a good 300tdi conversion. I told my insurance company I had a 2.5 turbo diesel engine in mine as I have a 300tdi - although it came with a 2.5 petrol - it's also shown as 2.5 TD on the V5 so I don't have it listed as a conversion just that the insurance and the V5 match up... all good!

Mackers said:

Yer a funny lot on here. Either I've spent my life being totally oblivious to people pulling my leg, or I dunno if people are pulling my leg, trying to help me by discreetly suggesting I curve the ball, or are telling me stuff that corrects the seller's bulls*%t???? I am genuinely naive you know (I was probably being too harsh calling myself thick lol). There may be some brain damage, but that's just down to waking up in farmer's fields from Somerset to Glasgow during the first summer of love and the acid house Rave culture I was caught in the middle of). So is it a 300tdi or a 2.5 then? Or is it best to say it's a 2.5 and not a 300tdi?

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Since the 2.5NA was launched in the early 80's all the diesels from Land Rover for the Defender were 2.5l until the puma engines - 300tdi is just the name, it's predecessor was the 200tdi and it was a 2.5 also.

If your V5 says 2.5 diesel then it's fine. When I first did my 300tdi conversion I told my insurance company my engine blew up and I had to replace it, he asked what I fitted and I said a newer 2.5litre land rover engine, he said OK that's fine - this is just an engine replacement - I never said another word and that was 10 years ago.

Mackers said:

He said he asked the garage about saving the bit of the old chassis but they said it wasn't worth it as they'd made a record. He has loads of before and after pictures which he said he would email to me and he also agreed to tell the garage that I can have all documentation and receipts (I didn't push the garage pre-purchase for too much info because I didn't want the garage to get in trouble - Data Protection). I didn't check the engine with the VIN plate, as it's a new engine and he kept the V5 to post (I just got the slip). I just expected the vin and engine to be different as he told me it was a new engine (I know, I'm a wazzock). It's a really good reputable garage run by enthusiasts. They have all records and I can't imagine they'd knock up a stolen vehicle. I've not had the pics from the seller yet, but I'll email the garage to see if he's phoned through permission to release everything. I joined the forum too late to learn. I'm just getting stressed with all the mistakes I made, so I'm off and will return to let you know the warts and all. You'll see it time and time again. I'm one of those pilacs.

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Once it's registered in your name, you can get the engine number off the engine and onto the V5 - you just change it and send it back. However, before you do that, ask the garage where the engine came from, was the donor vehicle scrapped - as that would then legitimately let you have that engine for example.

discomania said:

Once it's registered in your name, you can get the engine number off the engine and onto the V5 - you just change it and send it back. However, before you do that, ask the garage where the engine came from, was the donor vehicle scrapped - as that would then legitimately let you have that engine for example.

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Not quite, you now have to get a letter from a legitimate garage to say that the engine number you gave is actually fitted
I checked the .gov website as I need to change mine....

Cheers y'all. Been down to my nearest landy garage. Very nice chap (big garage, loads of Land Rovers and Range rovers being serviced, and quite a lot of mechanics for your average garage working there, etc.). The water's in part coming from a later LR sunroof. There's a question mark about the doors being galvanised as the seller said, as there's rust on corners at bottom . No doubt they're newish, but he said the frame doors might be galvanised, but then why would someone do that instead of changing the doors completely he said? I can have steps which is a priority, as there is a way around how the tank goes after a 300 is fitted, and security is a biggy (new barrels, one key. Gonna have a switch put on connected to battery, which is under the passenger seat. Everything nice and clean there. Where the front flaps at end of bonnet are, he said they had been filled as part of the 5k spray job. Some bits put on using stainless steel instead of fibre washers to stop the electro something or other. Thinks I should get waxoyl on the bulkhead whilst it's still in great nick. Oil pipe about a foot long to replace as it's cracked (goes into engine). There's an A and B service (B being better and around 220.00 cos they clean wheels out in something or other). Water could be coming in around those curved windows too, sitting on the interior rim of roof and running down. They generally felt it was a bargain, and when it's in for a service up on the high things they have at kwik fit garages (car pits in the sky basically), they check if number has been put on new chassis. Other things but I can't remember, as I nearly spun the car around, mounted the curb and into a bus shelter (still learning how to drive it as my right arm keeps getting stuck on the window, plus I'm 6 foot and the chair doesn't go back as far as I thought (I'll get used to it. Up there with security is a rear camera, as I live on the main road next to the hospital and I can't bloody see pedestrians when I'm reversing (either that or an automated voice shouting 'vehicle reversing' when I put into reverse. Garage who did it up have been really helpful, sending list of all works done etc. I'm sending them a stick so they can put all the restoration pics on it. Got a friend of a friend coming round soon (he's built 6 landys from scratch) I'll let y'all know what he (Tom) says. May get a new rear door way into future (oxidisation on existing one after spray job). My rear door is the ones in three parts and they're now in two apparently.

My Old Landy said:

Not quite, you now have to get a letter from a legitimate garage to say that the engine number you gave is actually fitted
I checked the .gov website as I need to change mine....

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Must have changed - I didn't have to do any of that - wrote details in the boxes - sent it back - came back updated! Makes perfect sense though, as someone with nothing dodgy about my engine number I would have happily supplied a letter - it protects us so it's a good change in my eyes.

Getting a good garage (usually a VAT registered garage counts as "good" oddly) to give you a letter of confirmation isn't going to be difficult if that is what is needed now. I know a few garage owners so I would use them but if I was the gent who bought this Defender I would have the garage who did the conversion supply the letter - I would expect them to do it FOC or for a small admin fee.

I would write the letter myself - and have them print it on their letter headed paper and sign it once they visually inspected and satisfied themselves that the engine number on the block and the engine number on the letter matched.