hi everybody on my montego on the vin plate under the bonnet ,there is your vin/chassy number above that there is another number,just below the austin rover logo, whats it for any ideas? cheers tony
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You need a VIN plate attached otherwise your Montego will fail the MoT, whatever the colour is. Officially there shouldn't be a number stamped in the silver space between the Austin Rover logo and the VIN number. So why is there a space?? Good old Austin Rover! Could be the commission number or body number perhaps.M&MOC Committee Member - Archivist
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we will have to have a look if i get my car to the show,been looking in the haynes book and they said as you do, that the plate should be"on the front body panel or to the left-hand front door pillar,the number is repeated on the right-hand front strut turret".
as i have said no plate on the door pillar ,just a plate on the right hand inner wing,and stamped on the right hand side strut turret,. who knows perhaps it is a "made on friday"car?Tony Hague
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I think it's another one of those changeable Austin Rover things. The VP has the VIN plate in the engine bay, and the camper has the VIN plate on the door pillar *shrug*A closed mouth gathers no foot
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In general there is a change over date for the positioning of Vin plate and numbers. Pre-1989 had a body number plate mounted on the front headlight panel on the nearside,Post-1989 models had this moved to the boot floor. The Vin number stamped into the shell used to be on the centre of the rear bulkhead panel and this moved to the NSF suspension turret sometime around 1986-87. Up until this point the VIN plate itself was mounted on the NSF inner wing panel also. Same applies to both Monty and Maestro.
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must be diffrent fitter diffrent place for the vin plate,so u know who put the car together,my 84/85 has the vin on the turret who knows? perhaps it is a cut and shut .
they must have used two very rusty carsTony Hague
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