caravan age

[Melody2]

Hi I was just wanting to ask if anyone could tell me what this translates as please: F80/1095. I have been trying to find out the age of our van and could only find the above on the plate.

I thought there was a website that allowed you to type in the code ect... but IÔm afraid i dont know the name and am having no luck wih searching for it.

Cheers all

Melody

P.s. HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL XXX

 

[Melody2]

Hi again all, Just to say that I have manage to find out the age, which is 1975!!! I even have a signed receipt stating that it is a (wait for it) Sprite Muskerteer 1990! Oh well, as Monty Python once said... Always look on the bright side of life... da da da da da da da da da....

x

 

[ThePlotter]

I am not sure that either of those ages go with the plate as the age is often within the numbers a bit like your DofB on your driving licence.

Can you post a picture of the van it would be fairly easy then to tell not least as a 1975 will I recall have glass windows not acrylic double glazed

 

[colin(bridgend)]

Another way of dating a van is that they were not fitted with rear fog lights as standard prior to 1980. If your van is as old as you say and yet have a receipt stating as being a 1990 van there should be cause for concern under the sale of goods act for misrepresentation.

 

[Mike_5041144]

Hi Melody

If the manufacturer is still available - they should be able to tell you - or even a reputable caravan dealer.

 

[Melody2]

Hi all, I forgot to mention that it does also say on the plate that it is a Sprite Muskerteer. The reason I thought it was 1975 was because i cam e across the following paragraph on the internet:

From 1960 to 1991 inclusive

In 1960 the numbering system changed slightly to give a coded year of manufacture.

For caravans built from 1960 - 1991 inclusive, the build number is shown as the last two digits and the month of manufacture is given by the centre two digits. The year of manufacture is coded, but can be quickly worked out by deducting the last digit of the serial number from the number which is made up of the first two digits at the front of the serial number.

Take for instance number 860979. This would be build number 79 (last two digits) built in September (middle two digits) 1977 (first two digits 86 minus the last digit 9 = 77).

It is important to stress this gives the approximate date of manufacture and not necessarily the model year.

From the mid 1980's Model years ran from August /September so a 1988 model caravan could have been built anytime between August/September 1987 through to August/September 1988 (caravans built for shows, exhibitions or publicity purposes - brochure photography etc., may have been built earlier and therefore have an earlier date of manufacture, but these caravans would not be released from the factory until the new model year officially started).

Upto the mid 1980's model years tended to coincide with calendar years. To prevent confusion over model years from 1988 a new Alpha numeric 4 figure prefix was added to the usual 6 figure serial number, this included a manufacturers code (CL) together with the model year, for instance CL90960827 would be build number 27, built in August 1989, and it would be a 1990 model. This alpha numeric prefix was stamped with either letters or numbers leading the code i.e. CL90 or 90CL.

As mine has a letter before (F) then 80/ before the second bit, so to speak, i am now thinking that it stands for 1980. It does have a rear fog light, but then it also has a gas light fitting inside!

We brought it privately off of someone who i initally thought once i saw the van that we had been "ripped off" and very nieve. It certainly is not as described, very far from it. However now that we have had the boards off front and back, and tackled the damp, I still think that we will of had a good deal as just the awning, containers, loo and fairly new tyres would of cost more than we paid for it. Its now a case of each time i find a new problem, i think, "right, i

 

[Melody2]

Hi all, I forgot to mention that it does also say on the plate that it is a Sprite Muskerteer. The reason I thought it was 1975 was because i cam e across the following paragraph on the internet:

From 1960 to 1991 inclusive

In 1960 the numbering system changed slightly to give a coded year of manufacture.

For caravans built from 1960 - 1991 inclusive, the build number is shown as the last two digits and the month of manufacture is given by the centre two digits. The year of manufacture is coded, but can be quickly worked out by deducting the last digit of the serial number from the number which is made up of the first two digits at the front of the serial number.

Take for instance number 860979. This would be build number 79 (last two digits) built in September (middle two digits) 1977 (first two digits 86 minus the last digit 9 = 77).

It is important to stress this gives the approximate date of manufacture and not necessarily the model year.

From the mid 1980's Model years ran from August /September so a 1988 model caravan could have been built anytime between August/September 1987 through to August/September 1988 (caravans built for shows, exhibitions or publicity purposes - brochure photography etc., may have been built earlier and therefore have an earlier date of manufacture, but these caravans would not be released from the factory until the new model year officially started).

Upto the mid 1980's model years tended to coincide with calendar years. To prevent confusion over model years from 1988 a new Alpha numeric 4 figure prefix was added to the usual 6 figure serial number, this included a manufacturers code (CL) together with the model year, for instance CL90960827 would be build number 27, built in August 1989, and it would be a 1990 model. This alpha numeric prefix was stamped with either letters or numbers leading the code i.e. CL90 or 90CL.

As mine has a letter before (F) then 80/ before the second bit, so to speak, i am now thinking that it stands for 1980. It does have a rear fog light, but then it also has a gas light fitting inside!

We brought it privately off of someone who i initally thought once i saw the van that we had been "ripped off" and very nieve. It certainly is not as described, very far from it. However now that we have had the boards off front and back, and tackled the damp, I still think that we will of had a good deal as just the awning, containers, loo and fairly new tyres would of cost more than we paid for it. Its now a case of each time i find a new problem, i think, "right, i

 

[gary]

Hi all, I forgot to mention that it does also say on the plate that it is a Sprite Muskerteer. The reason I thought it was 1975 was because i cam e across the following paragraph on the internet:

From 1960 to 1991 inclusive

In 1960 the numbering system changed slightly to give a coded year of manufacture.

For caravans built from 1960 - 1991 inclusive, the build number is shown as the last two digits and the month of manufacture is given by the centre two digits. The year of manufacture is coded, but can be quickly worked out by deducting the last digit of the serial number from the number which is made up of the first two digits at the front of the serial number.

Take for instance number 860979. This would be build number 79 (last two digits) built in September (middle two digits) 1977 (first two digits 86 minus the last digit 9 = 77).

It is important to stress this gives the approximate date of manufacture and not necessarily the model year.

From the mid 1980's Model years ran from August /September so a 1988 model caravan could have been built anytime between August/September 1987 through to August/September 1988 (caravans built for shows, exhibitions or publicity purposes - brochure photography etc., may have been built earlier and therefore have an earlier date of manufacture, but these caravans would not be released from the factory until the new model year officially started).

Upto the mid 1980's model years tended to coincide with calendar years. To prevent confusion over model years from 1988 a new Alpha numeric 4 figure prefix was added to the usual 6 figure serial number, this included a manufacturers code (CL) together with the model year, for instance CL90960827 would be build number 27, built in August 1989, and it would be a 1990 model. This alpha numeric prefix was stamped with either letters or numbers leading the code i.e. CL90 or 90CL.

As mine has a letter before (F) then 80/ before the second bit, so to speak, i am now thinking that it stands for 1980. It does have a rear fog light, but then it also has a gas light fitting inside!

We brought it privately off of someone who i initally thought once i saw the van that we had been "ripped off" and very nieve. It certainly is not as described, very far from it. However now that we have had the boards off front and back, and tackled the damp, I still think that we will of had a good deal as just the awning, containers, loo and fairly new tyres would of cost more than we paid for it. Its now a case of each time i find a new problem, i think, "right, i