Thread: Build Plate

Originally Posted by FalconSprint

Exactly what I wanted

except that my MY12 L322's "plate" is a sticker.

Originally Posted by Graeme

except that my MY12 L322's "plate" is a sticker.

Well that must be something very new - from the time of introduction in the early 70s the compliance plate has always been aluminium with the information stamped on and the plates pop riveted onto the body. From the mid 00s the plate information was etched onto the aluminium but still pop riveted on.

Graeme can you put up a pic of these new sticker style compliance plates as I have not seem them before.

Cheers

Garry

Note what appears to be the print date of 18/4/12 which is 14 days after its build date, indicating that it may have been applied before leaving the UK.

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Well there you go - I never knew that until raised in this thread - I wonder what year they went to stick on compliance plates - must have been around 2010 - 12.

Also interesting point about if they are affixed in the UK or Aust - traditionally they were affixed when the vehicles were being prepared for delivery at the manufacturers storage yard in Australia. There was the case many years ago where Jeeps were being sold as new vehicles by dealers based on kms and compliance plates but due to poor sales had sat in holding yards for a few years and the compliance plates were being put on when being moved for delivery - years after the vehicles had been shipped to Aust.

So back to the original post - were we looking for the build sticker or the compliance sticker?

Garry

It's quite possible that only some manufacturers or even some models have the sticky label. Mine being an Autobiography was almost certainly a special customer order so the factory or JLRA would have known once built when it would be out of bond in Oz and therefore could put the 06/12 date, but perhaps the same for all RRs or even all LRs to Oz.