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Austin Shackles
are the ones with indicators in as fitted to the 200 type the same as the
ones fitted to the later 300 type, with indicators?
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> are the ones with indicators in as fitted to the 200 type the same as
> the ones fitted to the later 300 type, with indicators?
I think so, at least that's what I fitted to mine, not only that the
indicator wiring was in the loom for those clusters.
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Austin Shackles
<Geoff_Ha...@IEE.ORGasm> enlightened us thusly:
>Austin Shackles wrote:
>> are the ones with indicators in as fitted to the 200 type the same as
>> the ones fitted to the later 300 type, with indicators?
>
>I think so, at least that's what I fitted to mine, not only that the
>indicator wiring was in the loom for those clusters.
jolly good. The "new" (N -reg) here has the indicators, but one lens is
damaged and the brake light bulb holder is iffy.
John Williamson
> On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:34:27 +0000, Austin Shackles
> <austinDITCHTHIS...@ddol-las.net> wrote:
>
>> jolly good. The "new" (N -reg) here has the indicators, but one lens is
>> damaged and the brake light bulb holder is iffy.
>
> like?
>
> A genuine question - not having a go at you.
>
It's generally an easy way to tell what model year a vehicle is, they
tended to change on or about the same date as the year letter changed in
August. So, in many cases, two vehicles made in the same year won't be
the same model, but generally, two vehicles with the same registration
letter will, both give or take the amount of time they were on the
dealer's forecourt.
> A broader question - why is the registration system set up to relate
> to the age of a vehicle?
>
The marketing departments of the car makers wanted it set up that way
back in the late 50/ early 60s, to encourage people to dispose of their
horribly old and out of date last year's model, and get a shiny new one
that all the neighbours could *see* was this year's model, 'cos it said
so on the plate.
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hugh
<johnwil...@btinternet.com> writes
of Jan and came at the end of the plate. E in 67 was the last before
they issued them on 1st August. This was again at the behest of the
manufacturers and dealers because they belatedly realised they had
created a double incentive for everyone to change their cars on 1st Jan
and this created an almighty bulge in sales followed by 11 months of
slack.
Eventually when we ran out of letters the letter was switched to the
front of the plate and so we went round again. There are of course many
Landies around which pre-date the letters or have the letter at the end
from the first cycle -I mentioned one in here recently an F reg 109
Safari SW which means it was first registered between 1st Aug 1967 and
31st July 1968. I happen to know it was registered in 1967.
The current system in which the year is divided into 2 x 6 month periods
designated by '0' and '5' before the year number is utterly confusing
but again is supposed to somehow spread the peaks of demand but at the
same time appeal to our vanity so that we change our cars regularly and
to hell with the carbon footprint.
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Austin Shackles
enlightened us thusly:
>The current system in which the year is divided into 2 x 6 month periods
>designated by '0' and '5' before the year number is utterly confusing
you left out "and fucking stupid, clearly designed by the civil service"
>but again is supposed to somehow spread the peaks of demand but at the
>same time appeal to our vanity so that we change our cars regularly and
>to hell with the carbon footprint.
Actually, the change every 6 months pre-dated the end of year-letters, and
started I think with T-prefix. They screwed up royally, by starting it 6
months late, so that the new scheme which was in theory going to start with
01 (in the form AB01 ABC) didn't, as the 01 period (March-Sept 2001) was
Y-prefix. So the new system started with AB51 ABC pattern in Sept 01.
seems to me that the change every 6 months has in fact tended to remove a
lot of incentive to get "new" numbers - you don't get so many new ones in a
bunch when it changes as you used to when it was annual.
The new system, which has the area identifier (2 letters) and then the year
code, has for each area ID and year code a 3-letter random (or chosen, if
you pay more) sequence, so has 26*26*26 possible numbers for each area code
and date code. This is many more (17576) than the old 3-digit numeric ID
had (999) ans as such there's no real need to change it 6-monthly, there's
no real likelihood that an area would run out of numbers - there are at
least 400 area codes (they don't use all the letters).