Feltham Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 LEZ on light vans starts on 03.01.12. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmerboy_y2k Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 AFAIK not subject to the LEZ fee's until 2012, or park the LR at the nearest underground station & go to the car seller on the tube. aren't all underground stations with the LEZ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inaine Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 LEZ on light vans starts on 03.01.12. get a EU5 van then! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve King Posted August 13, 2011 Share Posted August 13, 2011 LEZ on light vans starts on 03.01.12. Indeed and the earliest hardtop Defender that is compliant is the TD5. Just hope those bar stewards wonderful people at TfL don't start changing the goalposts in a couple of years!! :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazelle Posted August 14, 2011 Share Posted August 14, 2011 Indeed and the earliest hardtop Defender that is compliant is the TD5. Just hope those bar stewards wonderful people at TfL don't start changing the goalposts in a couple of years!! :unsure: A TD5 is not necessarily compilant with LEZ requirements. It is a Euro III compliant engine (well mine is listed as EIII) not EIV that is currently needed for compliance in January. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bumpyride Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 Gents, With Jan 2012 coming ever closer, has anybody had any luck in getting an emept status. By this i mean for a Hardtop 110. Please for those of you lucky enough to have an orgninal CSW them please let this post concentrate on hardtops and pickups. I have 9 seats (sideward facing) which have been in since i brought it, but no windows, however these appear to be a non factory addition as its not listed on the VIN as 9 seats From my conversations with the limited intelligence TFL people the simple to use flowchart has been removed and other than the online checked is the only reference source. Has anybody sucessfully re-listed a hardtop as a CSW? If so what mods did you do, how hard was it getting it through the DVLA, what cost and are you now exempt? Has anybody persuaded both the dvla and TFl by cutting windows in the back of a hardtop and adding sideward facing seats? Anybody got through as per the old flowchart of listing the LR as having 9 seats? Anybody had a filter fitted? How much? If so how big are they - are you likely to damage offroad? cheers for your help, please guys can i request only useful suggestions and not the usual list, change engine, don't go to london etc etc etc, i serious need a final answer before possibly selling the beauty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb78 Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 There are answers to lots of your questions in the other lez threads on the forum. To summarise, land rover have washed their hands of anything pre 98. The dvla now seem to be refusing to reclassify anything (even genuine csws) without a letter from land rover, so unfortunately the chances are low of getting yours reclassified. A lot of people seem to be reporting changes in their status lately, have you checked your status recently? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
western Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 You cannot change a hardtop to a Estate on the V5, a hardtop does not meet the requirement to qualify as a 5 door 110 station wagon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rusty_wingnut Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 I had my defender fitted with some temperature logging device by a Scandinavian filter company, we concluded the Tdi does produce high enough temperatures, at the rough fitment point of the filter, to only require a simple filter system. So no need for extra dosing or post turbo fuel injection. The filter was £1800 but that was literally a filter in a box, no guarantee on making the VOSA test for emissions to reclasify it, and the sizing IIRC, was around 8" dia by 18" long - probably a bit too tight for a 90 but not for a 110. I have never received a proper engineering drawing of the filter, nor a picture. the informtation did come from the manufacturers though. So, I have decided to fit a V8 to my hardtop, the family 110 is going through reclassification (we hope) A friend of mine has an ex TD hardtop, now with a different body and 3.3ltr Mazda diesel engine, and he is classed as exempt. What justice is there in that? Where a vehicle with a huge diesel, that is a commercial, is exempt whereas my pukka hardtop with smaller Tdi isn't? I echo everything about his being a farce, frankly I feel terribly hard done by. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bumpyride Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 Cheers for your comments But I've seen references on other forums to change of status for hardtops Can Anybody shed any light on this? Also anybody got a filter fitted? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb78 Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 But I've seen references on other forums to change of status for hardtops Can Anybody shed any light on this I suspect it was just luck, and probably prior to the current panic and resultant influx of v5s to the dvla from land rover owners asking for a change of status. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb78 Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 Oops. Double post. Please delete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simkin Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Just a tip for 110 CSW owners. I wrote to TFL, quoting my chassis number and enclosing a copy of the LEZ consultation document as well as some photos of the vehicle showing it had 5 doors and the second row of seats. I firstly got a letter back thinking me for registering and then another a few days later confirming my car is exempt. If you have a 110CSW, even if your V5C says "4x4 UTILITY VEHICLE", a polite letter to TFL will get you off the list of shame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan110 Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Don't think this will be much use to anyone, but just to add to the info on here - My 1986 110 Hard top 200tdi conversion is listed as 'saloon' on the V5 and comes up as exempt on the checker. Not sure if this is something to do with it being ex MOD? Who knows. I just count myself lucky! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Easy. Move. London's a smelly horrible place anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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