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(Message started by: chadwell24 on Mar 11^th, 2008, 11:22am)

Title: 96' facelift
Post by chadwell24 on Mar 11^th, 2008, 11:22am

Hi, just bought our Scorpio and we love it but it seems to be a bit of an enigma.. It was first registered 21/11/96 but it is a facelift model. Is this unsual??

Title: Re: 96' facelift
Post by Simmo on Mar 11^th, 2008, 11:26am

Possibly 'modified' to facelift style by a previous owner. Many on this site have and continue to do so. Welcome ;)

Title: Re: 96' facelift
Post by TiberiuS on Mar 11^th, 2008, 7:22pm

Don't worry about it, be happy ;D

Those parts are quite expensive and hard to find second hand, I've even seen a couple of 'facelifts' on N plates in the past ;)

Regards, Bruce.

Title: Re: 96' facelift
Post by chadwell24 on Mar 11^th, 2008, 7:36pm

Hi Thanks for the replies,

Title: Re: 96' facelift
Post by savvy on Mar 13^th, 2008, 1:01pm

I don't want to scare you and it's just a thought, are the chances of one being crashed and then repaired with facelift lights a possibility?
Apart from lights, how else do you check for facelift models?

Title: Re: 96' facelift
Post by chadwell24 on Mar 13^th, 2008, 3:27pm

hi front and back end are facelift we had the car thourghly checked out before we bought it

Title: Re: 96' facelift
Post by a900one on Mar 13^th, 2008, 4:37pm

Has it got a lap strap for the centre back seat belt or a three point one.

Title: Re: 96' facelift
Post by Snoopy on Mar 13^th, 2008, 4:59pm

door puddle lights?

Title: Re: 96' facelift
Post by Matt on Mar 13^th, 2008, 5:32pm

if its a 96 it wont have the the 3 point center rear seat belt as a modified parcel shelf was fitted to the facelift modles to accommodate it.

also its doubt full its crash damaged and repaired using the face lift parts, for one they are much harder to get hold of so would bump up the price of the bill.

a few members have had there facelift cars repaired at garages only to find pre facelift parts had been fitted instead.

as Tiberius says, its more then likely just someone upgrading it, ive done it to my n plate cossie, its a easy job to do, straight swap infact!

didnt they fit the passanger front air bag to the only the facelift models? the dash's are slightly diffrent between the air bag and non air bag, and i dont just mean the SRS airbag logo on the dash panel, the upper egde arround the walnut facia is more tapered on the air bag models

Title: Re: 96' facelift
Post by TiberiuS on Mar 16^th, 2008, 12:05am

on 03/13/08 at 17:32:33, Matt wrote:

didnt they fit the passanger front air bag to the only the facelift models? the dash's are slightly diffrent between the air bag and non air bag, and i dont just mean the SRS airbag logo on the dash panel, the upper egde arround the walnut facia is more tapered on the air bag models

Matt, mine had the passenger airbag, didn't realise the dash was different. I've got some close shots of the dash somewhere..

It had everything except TC and leather, which isn't very much really ::)

Regards, Bruce.

Title: Re: 96' facelift
Post by Kjetil S on Mar 16^th, 2008, 1:57pm

Mines an EARLY '95 and it has the passenger air bag. Iirc (and I probably don't) side air bags were added to the facelift.