Member Since: 21 Mar 2006
Location: Surrey, UK
Posts: 16
New SE but what year?
Ordered my new 2006 Discovery SE TDV6 on 18th Feb 2006.
Picked it up just over a week ago. Its got Xenon headlights as standard but none of the standard 2006 options (roof rails etc.) but the dealer assured me it would have a full size spare wheel which is OK and all this implies a 2005 car.
Found out when I got it home that it was built in September 2005 and also that it has a spacesaver NOT a full size wheel. Not much good for me if I am 200 miles from home late at night with a puncture. Hopefully the dealer will come good and replace the wheel........still waiting to hear a week after the first call.
Its a shame that Land Rover can't sort out their options lists more clearly on such an expensive car.....it would have helped to know what I was getting!
Hi GJS. Firstly, don't loose heart. The earlier SE's had a better spec than the current ones. I would suggest the Bi Xenons are better to have than the roof rails and cooler cubby box. Besides, it is cheaper to add the 06 options than to replace the 05 options (£700+ for Xenons).
I am unsure if you will actually have a late 05MY or an early 06MY car - but there are actually two 06MY varients already with a build change in December 05. My SE was built in Dec 05 but it is a 1st generation 06MY. I have Xenons as standard (they were removed from the SE during December) plus I have the roof rails and cubby box etc. by adding the 'accessory pack'.
As for the spare wheel - go back to the dealer and complain that you have an older model than expected. Tell them you want a full size spare or you want a newer car. I expect that will have the required result.
21st Mar 2006 6:17 pm
GJS
Member Since: 21 Mar 2006
Location: Surrey, UK
Posts: 16
Thanks JMC. I am happy to have the xenons and agree that they are a better deal overall. Do wish that I had also ordered roof rails now. I was expecting Thule to have a solution and it seems difficult to get them fitted later.
Apart from that the car's great.TDV6 SE - Buckingham Blue with Alpaca
21st Mar 2006 6:26 pm
Winger Site Moderator
Member Since: 15 Feb 2005
Location: UK
Posts: 3428
Retrofit roof rails is a DIY job.....or can be done by your dealer.
Your VIN will give you the model year, but it should be an 06 if it was built in September.
21st Mar 2006 6:31 pm
SN
Member Since: 03 Jan 2006
Location: Romiley
Posts: 13710
Winger wrote:
Your VIN will give you the model year, but it should be an 06 if it was built in September.
Has anyone got a list of which VIN ranges go with which model years?Steve N | 21MY Defender | 08MY Discovery 3 (history) | 06MY Discovery 3 (ancient history)
21st Mar 2006 7:11 pm
blue meanie D3 Decade
Member Since: 04 Aug 2005
Location: Newbury
Posts: 6861
GJS, mine is a Sep 05 SE, and the spec sounds the same as the standard then.
so the full-size spare, front PDC and other stuff was optional. it would be nice if the LR marketing dept would stop mucking about with the specs wouldn't it?and theeeeennn......???
21st Mar 2006 7:13 pm
Martin Site Admin and Owner
Member Since: 06 Nov 2004
Location: Hook Norton
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2005 model year end something like 5Axxxxxx
2006 model year end 6Axxxxxxx
and so on
Goodness knows what they'll do for 2010 model year onwards 06 D3 SE / 15 LR D90 XS SW / 88 LR 90 Td5 / 68 BMW 2000 ti
Any issues with the site let me know!
21st Mar 2006 7:14 pm
SN
Member Since: 03 Jan 2006
Location: Romiley
Posts: 13710
Doh! - any idea about the two MY06 variants?Steve N | 21MY Defender | 08MY Discovery 3 (history) | 06MY Discovery 3 (ancient history)
21st Mar 2006 7:24 pm
knightma
Member Since: 16 Feb 2006
Location: Cheltenham
Posts: 13
I had the opposite happen to me. Ordered an SE with metallic, roof rails and tow pack. The dealer located a car with the spec I wanted within the network thus allowing me to take delivery within 2 weeks. On delivery the dealer pointed out I'd struck lucky as the car had front PDC and a fridge which I'd not ordered. After a couple of weeks I noticed the car didn't have xenons. I phoned the dealer to be told the spec had changed in December 05 and I had a January 06 car but as I'd not asked for the Xenons specifically he'd not bothered to tell me. Absolute nonsense, I'd specifically ordered the SE which as far as I'd been lead to believe included xenons. They also didn't mention the roof rails I'd effectively paid for twice. He didn't have an excuse for that one. The xenons are important to me as I work in Germany and wanted the switchable lights that avoid the need for stickers.
I finally got the dealer to admit he'd made a mistake but as yet he's not agreed to do anything about it. I've said I want the xenons retrofitting but he initially said this was not technically possible. I've read on this site that it is and informed him, so he's gone away to re-check for himself. This was over a week ago, he's now avoiding my phone calls and won't return them. It's quite unbelievable that any prestige car dealer thinks he can behave like this. Such a pity the service from this dealer doesn't match the quality of the car. Not impressed at all.
Do what I did when a dealer mucked me around once too often...
....go and park right across the entrance to the dealership so no one can get in or out, lock the car, go inside, calmly but loudly tell them it doesn't move until you get a result and take a seat
Did wonders for me, busier the dealership is the better
I should also add if you're lucky things will move to the stage when you can spend a good 15 minutes or so giving the oink that's been mucking you around a really good dressing down right in front of his manager
21st Mar 2006 8:42 pm
AndrewS Tarquin of the Desert
Member Since: 06 May 2005
Location: Y...... because I can
Posts: 10438
When I collected my car from the dealer I said
"If it goes wrong and I'm not happy with the service I will return it through the showroom window"
So far I have been extremely happy with the car and the dealer. In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
21st Mar 2006 8:44 pm
chippypip
Member Since: 13 Dec 2005
Location: The Lake District
Posts: 127
JMC wrote:
My SE was built in Dec 05 but it is a 1st generation 06MY.
If it was built in Dec '05, I must be in some kind of time warp! We sat in a Cairns Blue SE with the same spec and in exactly the same parking spot in Nov.
We sat in a Cairns Blue SE with the same spec and in exactly the same parking spot in Nov.
To be fair to Ryan at Lakeland (I know you are reading this Ryan!!), he told me mine was just before the build change in December. Perhaps that could have meant November... If you were to tell me that you were sat in it a year earlier I'd be MUCH more worried
Anyway, Chippypip, I now feel like the daddy bear in the Goldielocks story...... WHO'S been sitting in MY chair.....
I'd love to say I'm saddened to find someone who has 'been there' before me, but I'm quite an obliging soul, so I trust you enjoyed the hospitality of my car before I did. 8)
If I ever find a fault with the seats in future, I'll know where to come knocking It worried me slightly at first, the fact that my car had been 'demo'd' in the showroom, but then I got to thinking - at least it was kept warm and cosy over the winter, rather than being unloved in a holding park somewhere.
21st Mar 2006 10:44 pm
10forcash
Member Since: 09 Jun 2005
Location: Ubique
Posts: 16534
err...... picked mine up in September as an 06MY (as verified by the 6A in the chassis number) and it was full '06 spec...
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If you were to tell me that you were sat in it a year earlier I'd be MUCH more worried 
It worried me slightly at first, the fact that my car had been 'demo'd' in the showroom, but then I got to thinking - at least it was kept warm and cosy over the winter, rather than being unloved in a holding park somewhere.
