Late registration madness

[Sealtainn]

I think the Clipper etc ran until 1993 so that would have been one of the last ones

[quicksilver]

One from the Van Nats yesterday. Declared manufactured 1990, imported in 1996 and given an N-prefix. Surely the mighty DVLA can't have got it wrong, that never* happens. 

[Vince70]

I saw a mk1 MX5 which was on a R plate today..

[quicksilver]

Not a late registration in the usual sense but certainly a puzzler. Ex military Dodge Commando whose body plate indicates it was built in 1985. When demobbed in 1995 it was correctly registered as a B-prefix so how and why did the next owner three years later manage to get it re-registered to an E? Strangely DVLA don't give a year of manufacture and claim it was first registered in 1998, which doesn't fit its known history.

 

[Pillock]

That's a very late one, but they were selling very slowly at the end.  Mine is one of the run-out special editions (one of 500) and it's on a J, there are quite a few Ks around but L must be rare.  The (mk3-based) replacement arrived on an M plate, as far as I remember, though it might have been late L.

 

Yeah, for about 18 months the tin-tops were on Mk3, a 1991 design and the floppier ones were build around a Mk1 design from 1936. Always amazes me how they got away with it, when every other manufacturer of small convertibles has a new model to match the hatchback. Escort, Astra, Peugeot - none of the rivals scrimped like that. And it carried on, the Mk4 Golf was alongside the Mk3 Convertible although they threw some new headlamps on it. 

[Lord Sterling]

A bit too rich for our tastes but very late:

 

[cms206]

[stuboy]

this late one?

[oldford]

A bit too rich for our tastes but very late:

 

The series 3 carried over to 1992 in V12 form as the XJ40 V12 wasn't launched until 1993, so this one isn't really that late.

[Ghosty]

this late one?

Nah, the 'arse' Mégane was 52 or 03 on IIRC. That's just one of the last ones.

[Hendry]

I don't think that's all that late Andy, when I stayed in Motherwell there were shitloads of 59 plate Matiz knocking about all bearing Peter Vardy bumf.

[stuboy]

Is this late for a kaka

[Ditchfinder General]

Is this late for a kaka

The missus's mother had a run out one on a 58 plate. I see it bombing round still and needless to say it's a bit frilly round the edges.

[Ditchfinder General]

Wot about this?

 

Soz for sideways pic.

[Negative Creep]

About the most interesting thing my dashcam has picked up so far

 

[UltraWomble]

Is it just me that thinks these look donkey jizz with the two badges on the front?

 

[Pillock]

Vauxhall Corsa FC02HWX

Date of first registration - 1st August 2002

Date of Build - 1999

 

That's got a story to tell. Maybe because odd (and mega undesirable) 1.2 Auto spec?

[Sealtainn]

There are a few Mk1 Ka's floating about on 09 plates

 

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[stuboy]

Clean and grot free

[forbeslongden]

 

Peugeot flogging a dead horse here....

[Alexg]

The Laguna II and Chrysler PT Cruiser are the only two cars I can think of that share the accolade of being too shit for Autoshite.

 

What a difference 8 months make.

[FakeConcern]

Is this late registration madness or not?

I can't seem to get it to go up the right way. Oh well!

 

[Felly Magic]

I've seen one on a 14 plate, Chinese built heaps

[Guest Lord Sward]

Aye. 

[FakeConcern]

I'll get my coat!

[Guest Lord Sward]

Probably of no interest to anyone on here, but I saw a 16-plate Freelander last week in Newton-Stewart.

[HH-R]

Didn't they only make 500 in about 2006? Probably still late reg madness.

[Felly Magic]

Quite a few SAIC TFs sat unsold at dealers for quite some time (years), paint quality was woeful on them, and they weren't that cheap either

[Guest Lord Sward]

No, I don't think they re-started build in Longbridge until late 2007.  Quality between monocoques varied so much, the rumour was there were two types; new/old stock MG-R items and then the chinese copies.  I've seen the variation myself, unbelievable.

 

Then of course, there were the simple, yet safety critical components the Chinese tried to palm off on the public like the bolts in the suspension arms/ball joints which could sheer.  I could go on, but I'd bore you all.

[Guest Lord Sward]

The wiring fizzes in the damp too; start motors, alternators, parking sensors, all shite.  Truly only the Chinese parachuting into a desperate Longbridge could take an old dubious product which had to cost-cuttered to death and then make it even worse.