Dudley909 Posted January 12, 2023 Share Posted January 12, 2023 (edited) Good evening, I went to look at a Defender for sale today, eBay classified, and found the chassis number was not factory stamped, it was badly done, and the chassis batch number year did not tally with the supposed vehicle year. What’s the best way to report this to the authorities, namely police and DVLA so they can flag the logbook. Edited January 12, 2023 by Dudley909 Added more info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
western Posted January 12, 2023 Share Posted January 12, 2023 A ebay link would be useful, you can report it to eBay & they will review the listing & remove it if the believe its dodgy. You could ring 101 https://www.police.uk/pu/contact-the-police/seen-or-heard/ Or email DVSA with all the details. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurbie Posted January 13, 2023 Share Posted January 13, 2023 19 hours ago, Dudley909 said: and the chassis batch number year did not tally with the supposed vehicle year. were do you find this on the chassis ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landroversforever Posted January 13, 2023 Share Posted January 13, 2023 Ebay link and pictures would be useful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wytze Posted January 13, 2023 Share Posted January 13, 2023 3 hours ago, hurbie said: were do you find this on the chassis ? According to my mate , on defenders the chassis number is allso stamped in parts all over different parts of the chassis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowie69 Posted January 13, 2023 Share Posted January 13, 2023 Your mate is wrong I'm afraid, normally just one place, RH dumb iron. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miketomcat Posted January 13, 2023 Share Posted January 13, 2023 17 minutes ago, Wytze said: According to my mate , on defenders the chassis number is allso stamped in parts all over different parts of the chassis I have also heard this, I believe it was later trucks to combat theft etc but I've never seen it or been able to verify it. Mike 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wytze Posted January 13, 2023 Share Posted January 13, 2023 3 minutes ago, miketomcat said: I have also heard this, I believe it was later trucks to combat theft etc but I've never seen it or been able to verify it. Mike For a little while back, he bought a early 110 V8, he didn't share much of it, but he say's there are various chassis number parts on gussets you can't reach to alter after welding up the chassis... The rdw (dvla) seems to use that to verify the id. Could be bull crapp.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
western Posted January 13, 2023 Share Posted January 13, 2023 Some of the outriggers have a week/year stamp like 3692 for example that being week 36 of 1992 &/or a batch number on them, Never seen multiple VIN on any LR. Other than the standard locations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snagger Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 I did read that later vehicles had dot-matrix style VIN markings in multiple locations, but I’m not sure if that was locations like axles and transmission or multiple chassis locations. I understood it to be the latter. But that may have been for other models and not Defender - I didn’t see more than one standard punched VIN on my 2009 Defender. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retroanaconda Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 There is certainly a date code on the main rail. Here is the one from my 90’s original chassis, registered January 1992. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Litch Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 When I did the Defender factory tour I only witnessed them stamping the chassis at one point (the OSF chassis leg) as it had always been done, it was a fantastic machine but quite noisy and took longer than you might expect. As far as I could see there was no way it was going to fit anywhere else on the chassis and I didn't see them do it elsewhere, just move onto the next vehicle. There are serial numbers on the axles etc but I think they are entirely separate to the chassis number. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landroversforever Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 2 hours ago, Litch said: When I did the Defender factory tour I only witnessed them stamping the chassis at one point (the OSF chassis leg) as it had always been done, it was a fantastic machine but quite noisy and took longer than you might expect. As far as I could see there was no way it was going to fit anywhere else on the chassis and I didn't see them do it elsewhere, just move onto the next vehicle. There are serial numbers on the axles etc but I think they are entirely separate to the chassis number. As far as I know, the axle numbers were never logged either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
western Posted January 14, 2023 Share Posted January 14, 2023 No record of axle numbers on my Heritage archive certificates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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