Got the following back on a VIN search of an '06 LR3 -

Discovery III (IV) / LR4 HSE 7 seats

Anyone know what this means?

 

It means the VIN search engine is wrong.

 

Thanks. That seems like the most straightforward and reasonable answer. Interestingly the LR3 badge (on this particular vehicle) was at some point replaced with an LR4 badge. I don't really understand why someone would do this and how that information would then get reported to a MVR database. Sucks because it's looks pretty clean, has the HD package, and has (relatively) low miles. But this bit of subterfuge is a pretty alarming red flag.

 

I am curious though: What VIN search engine did you use? Have you run a carfax on it? I wouldn't walk away from it just because someone took off a badge and wanted to make it look to the untrained eye to be an LR4 and the VIN search utility that you used was screwed up. It still may be a decent Rover.

 

Vindecoderz (which as I type it feels somewhat less than trustworthy) - https://www.vindecoderz.com/EN/check...AG25426A372474. And in the interest of full disclosure, here is the vehicle in question - https://www.ebay.com/itm/2006-Land-R...frcectupt=true.

It occurs to me that Vindecoderz probably just employs some sort of website scrapper to aggregate the information on any given vehicle and occasionally it picks up (and reports) something odd. Nevertheless, I have found it quite accurate (small sample size, locally confirmed) in identifying those LR3s with locking rear diffs.

 

So someone did want to camouflage it as an LR4. Taillights, badging, and grill are all LR4 stuff. I also like the 'Sport' badge above the HSE badge(I really don't). Why they didn't do the fender flares as body color to really do the LR4 treatment is anyone's guess.

If you are serious about it - I would pay for the carfax or autocheck and see what the history looks like. The site you link may be good about packages, options, etc... but the history is what I would want to see. How many owners, wrecks, title work, odometer rollbacks etc...even service records. Its your cash, but $40 isn't much when you compare it to $8K.

 

Thanks and agreed. There is zero chance I would pass on a Carfax report on this, or any other vehicle, if I were to become serious about pursuing it. I just stumbled across this listing today and was wondering what in the holy h@# was going on. Side note - I'm actually good with the grill, flares, and taillights (different strokes and so forth). The badging though just makes me feel sad for someone.

 

i like the look of it. the black and white is a good combo.

to answer the question, definitely just an LR3 with the LR4 grille and tailights added

 

None of that would bother me if everything else checks out. Seems pretty loaded up, even has DVD system.