Dealer put a wrong VIN, model year on a contract

I just googled this too. I have a tenth digit as "G" which according to the info I googled confirms that model year of 2016
stroller said:
Did a bit of googling and it appears that the tenth digit of the VIN contains the year of manufacture. We did a few checks and it appears to work when the VIN has a letter of the alphabet and compared it to the schedule on the you tube insert.
Some cars have a numeral as the tenth digit and this confuses.

Does each manufacturer have its own code?
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Nice auto. Enjoy!

Hope the VIN issue gets sorted. If it were me my only concern would be to ensure that the Reg Certificate is correct. If not, can cause issues when you upgrade.
 
So I popped into a Jaguar dealership at Unhlanga Ridge today and asked them to confirm the year model for me. According to them it is indeed a 2016 model :)

But here is an interesting twist to this. They claim that the maintenance plan only kicked in on 07/02/2017 and will expire on 07/02/2022 (again good for me)....but how is this possible when the car, according to records, is a year old?

On top of that the lady who was assisting me tells me the car has got 3 outstanding recall notifications that hasn't been attended to, I need to book it at the nearest Jaguar dealership as soon as possible. How on earth did Jaguar Sandton not pick this up before selling the car :sick:
 
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DuCy said:
On top of that the lady who was assisting me tells me the car has got 3 outstanding recall notifications that hasn't been attended to, I need to book it at the nearest Jaguar dealership as soon as possible. How on earth did Jaguar Sandton not pick this up before selling the car :sick:
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Did the car even get to its first proper service? Because then it probably wouldn't have been picked up.

Unless it's a massive safety risk type of recall it wouldn't generally be picked up until service time.

Just had a similar thing on my bike where the very first 1000km service was done in Nelspruit.

In between I was made aware of a recall and enquired about it and was told it was done in May already.

Cool no stress.

Took in for 10,000km service and when I pick up the bike the mechanic tells me they've ordered the parts for the recall. I was like WTF.

To their credit they had the parts in 3 days.

So seemingly Nelspruit is deur die *** as well.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Did the car even get to its first proper service? Because then it probably wouldn't have been picked up.

Unless it's a massive safety risk type of recall it wouldn't generally be picked up until service time.

Just had a similar thing on my bike where the very first 1000km service was done in Nelspruit.

In between I was made aware of a recall and enquired about it and was told it was done in May already.

Cool no stress.

Took in for 10,000km service and when I pick up the bike the mechanic tells me they've ordered the parts for the recall. I was like WTF.

To their credit they had the parts in 3 days.

So seemingly Nelspruit is deur die *** as well.
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The car hasn't been serviced yet as far as I know. I was assured the car underwent a "gruesome" 165-point-inspection. You would think that stuff like recall notices would be picked up then.
 
DuCy said:
The car hasn't been serviced yet as far as I know. I was assured the car underwent a "gruesome" 165-point-inspection. You would think that stuff like recall notices would be picked up then.
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Yeah you would expect but that check is probably more like a paper based checklist with nobody actually plugging the thing into the software.

Or as in most cases...completely bull****.
 
DuCy said:
So I popped into a Jaguar dealership at Unhlanga Ridge today and asked them to confirm the year model for me. According to them it is indeed a 2016 model :)

But here is an interesting twist to this. They claim that the maintenance plan only kicked in on 07/02/2017 and will expire on 07/02/2022 (again good for me)....but how is this possible when the car, according to records, is a year old?

On top of that the lady who was assisting me tells me the car has got 3 outstanding recall notifications that hasn't been attended to, I need to book it at the nearest Jaguar dealership as soon as possible. How on earth did Jaguar Sandton not pick this up before selling the car :sick:
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It's cos they sold you the wrong car
Seriously, maybe the 2015 one didn't have any recalls?
 
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