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[Pmacca2000]

Following on from some helpful advice on here I have remembered to take a photo of my seat belt label and it would seem my car was assembled on or around 7/12/99 so I'm guessing one of the fist FLs?
It was registered the following September so sat around for a while.
I was aware something want quite right when I had a key problem and the fella said the key wouldn't program as a 2000 model year car so thank you for helping enlighten me

[plym ian]

Be interesting to see whos cars were on the assembly line at roughly the same time 

[Doctor Gollum]

V and W reg Mfl cars would have been old stock vehicles, T reg Facelifts would be very early production cars, and possibly factory collected in order to be registered that early (September 1st '99 - Feb 28th '00).

Similarly any '53/'04/'54/'05 registered cars are all old stock and all '54/'05 cars are Plod ordered and built in the wake of discontinuation being announced...

[GastronomicKleptomaniac]

05 plated? Never seen one past a 54... someone got one?

[Pmacca2000]

So as the label on the belts shows 7/12/99 I take it one of the first built?
I know she was first registered in September 2000 so presumably sat around for just under a year before being registered to a massive fleet ?

[Doctor Gollum]

05 plated? Never seen one past a 54... someone got one?

Only seen one, a TVP saloon registered 03/05. They had a couple of Feb '05 registered saloons too

When I started looking for a white estate for work in 2008, I emailed their Fleet Manager for a list of their remaining cars that would be less than five years old in March '09... were 9 cars on it, two estates and seven saloons. As I wanted an estate I dismissed the saloons, of which there were three '04, three '54 and one '05.

Of the estates, I had a choice of two, a 3.5 year old 130k traffic car OU54AEX (a year before I needed it and which incidentally was resold a year/20k/not so much as a wash later) or the one I bought in Feb '09 at 99k, OU54AEW.

Worth noting just because they were on the list in April 2008, doesn't mean that they weren't written off in service before they would have normally been disposed of

[LC0112G]

From memory : The factory at Russelsheim closed down for summer block leave in late July/early August, and this coinsided with the chassis number letter changing to the next letter and the number resetting to `1000000', and most major model updates. This was certainly true in the Carlton/Senator days and probably continued into Omega. The effects were that cars built in August/September were often mongrel cars containing a mish-mash of new and old model year parts as they used up the last of the old stock. 

The label on my seat belts FL says 23-05-00. It's a Y reg facelift, so registered sometime after March 2001.

[Omega VT3000]

Oddly my driver's side seat belt says 10/2/00 but my car was registered Jan 2000. IIRC I may have changed the driver's side belt as it was frayed. I will have a look at the rears when I get a chance.

[Doctor Gollum]

Chassis number is only definitive way but seat belts are an easy guide as the labels can be easily read

[Olympia5776]

2Lt FL Estate , seat belt has 20-10-99, first registered 9-12-99 .

[TheBoy]

Following on from some helpful advice on here I have remembered to take a photo of my seat belt label and it would seem my car was assembled on or around 7/12/99 so I'm guessing one of the fist FLs?
It was registered the following September so sat around for a while.
I was aware something want quite right when I had a key problem and the fella said the key wouldn't program as a 2000 model year car so thank you for helping enlighten me

PM me reg or VIN and I'll look up production date.