S3c on a P plate.
S3c on a P plate.
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Rower

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1,381 posts

295 months

Monday 26th September 2011
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Spotted in Thames Ditton on a spotless light Maroon car , which makes it registered in 1996 . Chims were getting long in the tooth by then!! Anybody know anything about it ?


Rower

Last S4

504 posts

214 months

Monday 26th September 2011
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Surely its a private plate? Not that I am bothered weeping

Barkychoc

7,848 posts

233 months

Monday 26th September 2011
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Last S4 said:
Surely its a private plate? Not that I am bothered weeping
It can't be you are not allowed to have a private plate that is newer than the car. Could it have been an S4? Pretty hard to tell the difference between S3/S4 isn't it?

Wild guess but could it have been foreign registered from new and imported to the UK? Or maybe it wasn't registered till 96 but if so where had it been??

Dave_M

5,486 posts

253 months

Monday 26th September 2011
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Maybe it was an 'old' P plate?

I thought S4's had 'flat' bonnets with no centralised vent but vents along the edges like the Chims?

Scoobimax

1,892 posts

230 months

Monday 26th September 2011
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Dave_M said:
Maybe it was an 'old' P plate?

I thought S4's had 'flat' bonnets with no centralised vent but vents along the edges like the Chims?
cue Stu .....................

Rower

Original Poster:

1,381 posts

295 months

Tuesday 27th September 2011
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Scoobimax said:
Dave_M said:
Maybe it was an 'old' P plate?

I thought S4's had 'flat' bonnets with no centralised vent but vents along the edges like the Chims?
cue Stu .....................
Correct they do but this had the central air intake and driving lights def an S3c , in any case s4's were not being made in '96.