I just bought a 2006 LR3 with just about 90k miles on it, used from an LR Dealer. Really loving this truck so far, but I've been noticing other LR3's look a bit different than mine.

I've taken some photo's hopefully you guys can tell me what's been done to it. Also, looks like whoever put the body kit on tried to black out the Land Rover- what's a good way of reversing that?

Aaron

 

It's an expensive factory supplied, dealer installed, add-on to have body colored wheel arches on an early LR3. Find someone that wants to trade. If they were white, I'd take them.

EDIT: It looks like white wasn't even an option.

 

You maybe even have the more expensive "body styling pack" since your bumpers are body colored too. It's hard to tell though.

See here: http://www.landrover.com/content/us/...R4-7-18-11.pdf

 

It looks more like the factory stuff was painted to match.

I've seen this done a few times, and depending on the paint job, can turn out well, or can look awful after a little while. Due to the texture of the non-painted surfaces, they need to be prepped properly before painting, and if they were then you'll be fine. If you can still feel the texture through the paint, chances are you will have issues with it chipping down the road.

The body styling kit had a different front bumper, and wasn't designed to be installed on vehicles with Halogen lights.

 

You have a one off unique vehicle. You can replace Land Rover scripts and emblems if you want, but you have a one off might want to keep it that way. Yours is something no one else has, enjoy it.

 

Yeah, I thought it might be the fancy kit because there aren't front fogs in the usual place, but I guess this is a base model with no fogs.

 

The interior has the wood trim and a nav system, I'm pretty perplexed myself, that's why I posted here.

 

Do you have fogs below the front bumper?

 

It looks like a V6 SE that had the wheel arches and bumpers painted. The 5 spoke 18" wheels only came standard on the V6 SE. V8 SE had 10 Spoke 18" rims unless someone really had an itch for the 5 spoke and changed them out or ordered new with the 5 spoke.

The nav system could be ordered as an option on the V6 SE as well or the V8 SE models. The lighting kit option to have Xenon headlights included the fogs, the standard SE halogen lights did not. the wood trim could also be ordered from factory or even added after.

Check the VIN options with the dealer and they will tell what it was manufactured with.