Vin plate

Now then bill was looking at my vin plate the other day ( lets not mention he thought 1998 was the year) but he noticed mine was something like rnn ---00000742 is that the number that had come off the line? If so its an earlie one

Haha! I though why in the hell does it say manufactured in 1998 

When I say early I don't mean like one of the first ever but definately early on in production.
Iirc the serial numbers don't start untill 101 or 102 so it must be withing the first 650 cars made.

I think my cars serial numbers puts it just in the first production run, I think mt car is one of the last of the first if that makes sense?

Im sure I read somewhere that the first run were made in a different Nissan factory to the rest but I'm not sure if that's true or not   

Here you go mate

There were 5 seperate periods of production:
000101 (02/90) - 005769 (04/91) - Series 1 - Nissan Tochigi Plant
020001 (05/91) - 021480 (09/91) - Series 1 - Nissan Kyushu Plant
050001 (10/91) - 053490 (07/92) - Series 1 - Nissan Kyushu Plant?
100001 (08/92) - 102340 (07/93) - Series 2 - Nissan Kyushu Plant
150001 (08/93) - 151846 (11/94) - Series 2 - Nissan Kyushu Plant

Ah I alway new mine was special. Good find that bill, not a bad lad lol

Well either mine sat in a showroom or that's not accurate .. Mine is 3194 and a1992

Its just yours is a ringer rob  

I doubt it's accurate mate, there's another set of figures floating about and there are discrepancies between the two different production figures

Although my car is 54xx can't remember the exact number without looking but my car is a 1991 so yours must of been sat in a showroom.

Ye just after mine they lost interest and started chucking them together lol yours is defo a ringer Rob fronts a 92 and backs a 93  

Double posting are you trying to reach your daily quoter bill  

No mate it's just this fooking useless god damn stupid iPad doing everything but what I want it to    god I hate it! Lol

Its apple what do you expect .. it only works properly when you have to pay for something mate  

I know exactly what your saying mate! You can't do anything with it unless you go to the apple store and buy all brand new apple specific stuff, robbing b  rds!
Best thing about it is I've got a iPad 1, the iPad is fine but the software on it is absolutely useless! It uses the old IOS and apple dosent support it anymore! They don't even offer any updates so it's bugged up to back knackers! Every 2 minuets it just says no and spits you out back onto the main desktop or whatever apple call the main screen with all the gay little apps on it!

Only reason it hasn't gone out the window is because it was a present so I try and respect it but it's really testing my patience!

Which ones have umbrellas? phase 1 or 2?

Phase 1 but my mum had a k reg black phase 2 with an umbrella   

Mine is a k with an umbrella . But like i said has a low chassis number . also  has the headrests with the hole in them .  sure thats the only differences


Defo a ringer

My mums a cars were both phase 2 on k reg, both had the phase 2 interiors and Nissan logo instead of P badge etc. one was a sunroof model and one wasn't. I know one of them had an umbrella but im not sure about the other because we never knew it was there untill my sisters ex (the lad that come to the RR day with me) pointed out that they have umbrellas lol and that would of been in her second one, the sunroof model.

Have a look at the tag on the bottom of your front seatbelts rob, if they are the original seatbelts they will have a tag with the manufacture date on them

Hardy172cup wrote:Here you go mate

There were 5 seperate periods of production:
000101 (02/90) - 005769 (04/91) - Series 1 - Nissan Tochigi Plant
020001 (05/91) - 021480 (09/91) - Series 1 - Nissan Kyushu Plant
050001 (10/91) - 053490 (07/92) - Series 1 - Nissan Kyushu Plant?
100001 (08/92) - 102340 (07/93) - Series 2 - Nissan Kyushu Plant
150001 (08/93) - 151846 (11/94) - Series 2 - Nissan Kyushu Plant

If you copy info please acknowledge where you got it from, i.e. Courtesy of GTI-ROZ - http://www.gtiroz.net/index.php?app=ccs&module=pages§ion=pages&id=3

Bones wrote:Now then bill was looking at my vin plate the other day ( lets not mention he thought 1998 was the year) but he noticed mine was something like rnn ---00000742 is that the number that had come off the line? If so its an earlie one

Is this number xxx742 the actual number of your R, because I have just checked the database and that number wasn't allocated to any vehicle.

The easiest number to confirm is the one embossed on a small hump on the firewall (chassis number), just too the left of the plate.

If that number is correct off your R than it would indicate it was built in August 1990.

GTI_R_IOW wrote:Well either mine sat in a showroom or that's not accurate ..  Mine is 3194 and a1992

Yours indicates it was built in November 1990, less than 200 cars after mine.

Hardy172cup wrote:I doubt it's accurate mate, there's another set of figures floating about and there are discrepancies between the two different production figures

Although my car is 54xx can't remember the exact number without looking but my car is a 1991 so yours must of been sat in a showroom.

confirmed, yours was built in either March or early April 1991.

As far as saying series 1 or 2 are K regos and do or don't have umbrella's or donut headrests etc, is inaccurate, only series 1 from the listing above had those items.

Series 2 had none of them and even the headliner in S2 was changed from a twill fabric to a cheaper one. The seats also change from a greyish to a blueish colour, as did the steering wheel.

So it is inaccurate to say that because an R is K regoed it doesn't change its chassis configuration.

Hardy172cup wrote:Have a look at the tag on the bottom of your front seatbelts rob, if they are the original seatbelts they will have a tag with the manufacture date on them

And yes, if the "original" seat belts are still fitted than the white tag will have a "year" of manufacture that will correspond with the year of build of the car. It may on year changeovers not be exactly accurate, but it will be close, that is some January or even February made cars may still have the previous year date belts.

Well my mums k reg series 2 had an umbrella, I didn't imagine it because I saw it with my own eyes. It also had the series 2 interior.

she had 2 cars

1st was k reg series 2, it as series 2 interior, series 2 badges and no sunroof. Never checked for umbrella.

Her second car was k reg. series 2 interior, series 2 badges, had sunroof. 100% definately had umbrella. Maybe it was added as an extra by sum body or maybe it was built on the crossover point and had a series 1 chassis. Who knows but it had umbrella because we used to take the piss out of the shitty Nissan umbrella

splmum wrote:

Hardy172cup wrote:Here you go mate

There were 5 seperate periods of production:
000101 (02/90) - 005769 (04/91) - Series 1 - Nissan Tochigi Plant
020001 (05/91) - 021480 (09/91) - Series 1 - Nissan Kyushu Plant
050001 (10/91) - 053490 (07/92) - Series 1 - Nissan Kyushu Plant?
100001 (08/92) - 102340 (07/93) - Series 2 - Nissan Kyushu Plant
150001 (08/93) - 151846 (11/94) - Series 2 - Nissan Kyushu Plant

If you copy info please acknowledge where you got it from, i.e. Courtesy of GTI-ROZ - http://www.gtiroz.net/index.php?app=ccs&module=pages§ion=pages&id=3

Sorry for not mentioning where I got this from. I just did a google search and found it a wile ago and had it saved to my iPad.

No offence intended if I had of known I would of given credit to gtiroz