Authentication of a G4 by its VIN

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Irish4x4	I Irish4x4 posted Last Year HOT Topic Details
I Group: Forum Member Posts: 8, Visits: 17	Dear All, I am new to this group and not yet a full member but hopefully soon. I wanted to ask your collective advice. Is it possible to authenticate if a Discovery 2 is a original G4 by its VIN number, I don’t know if it was used in the challenge, was a G4 car sold direct to market or possibly a counterfeit of sorts. Any way to identify the providence would be of great help. The number is SALLTGM884A831589. It is a left hand drive, Td5 manual gearbox. Kind Regards
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Irish4x4	I Irish4x4 posted Last Year Post Details
I Group: Forum Member Posts: 8, Visits: 17	+x Irish4x4 - 15 Apr 2023 Dear All,I am new to this group and not yet a full member but hopefully soon.I wanted to ask your collective advice. Is it possible to authenticate if a Discovery 2 is a original G4 by its VIN number,I don’t know if it was used in the challenge, was a G4 car sold direct to market or possibly a counterfeit of sorts. Any way to identify the providence would be of great help.The number is SALLTGM884A831589. It is a left hand drive, Td5 manual gearbox.Kind Regards Hello again, I would really appreciate if someone in this forum could help me. Several people have pointed me to this group to seek assistance in identifying and authenticating my G4. Many thanks
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Radeco	Radeco posted Last Year Post Details
Group: G4 Member Posts: 248, Visits: 6.7K	It is the right colour - possibly an Edition - not event car. https://www.vindecoderz.com/EN/check-lookup/SALLTGM884A831589 Keith, Gone - G4 Freelander 2005 V6 HSE Stage 1 Thailand/Laos. HQ Support - YZT Now Volvo XC40 T5 MY20 AWD Inscription with too many toys to mention ! Attachments SAL.png (6 views, 22.00 KB)
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Stevejames	S Stevejames posted Last Year Post Details
S Group: Forum Member Posts: 13, Visits: 955	They won't reply to you or help in any way unless you pay, I found this when asking about g4 cars for sale, they have a private what's app group that the chosen few communicate on and this is a dead forum. They advertise links to cars for sale on their Facebook page, I've been told as too old for Facebook, but won't help on hear. Steve
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Irish4x4	I Irish4x4 posted Last Year Post Details
I Group: Forum Member Posts: 8, Visits: 17	+x Radeco - 16 Apr 2023 It is the right colour - possibly an Edition - not event car. https://www.vindecoderz.com/EN/check-lookup/SALLTGM884A831589 Thank you very much for your response, I do appreciate it. I have already looked it up on Vindecoderz and the colour and spec matches. I have seen so much discussion regarding standard Discos being dressed as G4s I wanted to see if there was a definitive way to identify if it was a G4 Event or Edition car I don't really mind. Kind Regards
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Irish4x4	I Irish4x4 posted Last Year Post Details
I Group: Forum Member Posts: 8, Visits: 17	+x Stevejames - 16 Apr 2023 They won't reply to you or help in any way unless you pay, I found this when asking about g4 cars for sale, they have a private what's app group that the chosen few communicate on and this is a dead forum. They advertise links to cars for sale on their Facebook page, I've been told as too old for Facebook, but won't help on hear. Steve Steve, I did get a kind response from Keith above. Thank you for your feedback. I will look again at the FB page to see if there is a definitive way to identify if the car is an original. I will also try a Land Rover dealership here in Malmö Sweden. Kind Regards Ciaran
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10spline	10spline posted Last Year Post Details
Group: G4 Member Posts: 33, Visits: 228	Its unlikely to be an event car, as they were all V8.
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Irish4x4	I Irish4x4 posted Last Year Post Details
I Group: Forum Member Posts: 8, Visits: 17	+x 10spline - 16 Apr 2023 Its unlikely to be an event car, as they were all V8. Thanks for your response. I have been conducting a lot of research and understood that it was probably not an event car. Were Td5s used as support vehicles? I do believe it is an Edition car but just wanted to see if there was a way to confirm this. Kind regards
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Gazdiver	Gazdiver posted Last Year Post Details
Group: G4 Club Member Posts: 325, Visits: 9.5K	+x Irish4x4 - 16 Apr 2023 +x 10spline - 16 Apr 2023 Its unlikely to be an event car, as they were all V8. Thanks for your response. I have been conducting a lot of research and understood that it was probably not an event car. Were Td5s used as support vehicles? I do believe it is an Edition car but just wanted to see if there was a way to confirm this. Kind regards As far as i know any support vehicles used would be the same spec as the team cars, so they would be Petrol variants.. Gary 2003 FFRR BT52 CNN 2003 freelander LE 2008 G4 Discovery 3 - Gone :-(
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Irish4x4	I Irish4x4 posted Last Year Post Details
I Group: Forum Member Posts: 8, Visits: 17	Hi Gary, Thanks for your response. I have seen posts from individuals with G4 Td5s stating they were support cars at certain stages of the challenge. Hence my confusion. Regards Ciaran
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