There's a few stories surrounding this. None totally 100% verified.
In the sales brochure it states that it has front & rear over-riders as standard fit. Not an option. Some British press pics show them not fitted, but all German brochures show them fitted...
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Some say the assembly line had simply chucked some of them in the boot rather than fit them. Saves them time. Quite easily removed, then lost / not given to the new owner.
To go with that: "A friend of mine who worked at fords at the time said, they were fitted at pdi and came in the boot" (PDI is pre-delivery inspection: a check that the car is ok to go to the new owner for those that don't know)
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Another story is that the assembly line started running out of items, so they started fitting them to the front only to cut down on use.
"speaking to someone who worked on these cars back in the day it was a case of if they had them in the parts bin they were fitted..if they didnt they carried on along the line to save holding it up...sometimes thrown in the boot if remembered later. Seems the rear ones had some delays being made...so it was a case of if they had them, you got them. They still had 2 bins for the Front & Rear.....Front ones had already been allocated and at the time rear ones werent considered as functional or "eye" catching as the front ones. Hence the reason why rear ones were often "forgotten"..due to the lack of them available"
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Originally Posted by Series_One
My 6K S1 has them on the back and it's totally untouched, even smells brand new inside.
You must be Nobby then?
Got loads of pics of your car.
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1...ded/nobby5.jpg
Any chance of the reg for the database pls. Can keep it private if you prefer (you wouldn't be the only one).