I got a question about my chassis number in the floor...

my floor is kinda rusting away and now i got new floorpans to weld in!
Whats the best way to get the numer into the new floorpan?
Can i just go to a local Ford dealer and ask them to restamp my
chassisnumber into the new floor? or is that a stupid thing to do?
or try to weld the plate with my number into the new pan?
The bit with the number on looks all just fine

 

cut the rotton floor around the number and then fit the new floor pan but first i would take pics of the damage then pics of the floor cut out and pics with the floor just fitted this should cover u

 

As above, make sure you get lots of hig res detailed photographs to show the work done, then at last you got proof it aint a bodged up ringer.

 

i contacted the dvla wen i did my rear floor pans, and they were happier, takin into account the age of the vehicle, for it to lose its ID stamp rather than have it welded back in for example, looks less sus

theres no perfect solution, i think the dvla and the authorities realise this, and whatever method u go for, its going to raise suspision at some point, but the fact wil remain the truth will come out either way when investigated if necessary at any point in future

also, ford want to charge insane amounts of money for the chassis stamp!!

also helped in my case that mine is a boggo 1.3 pop shell, and would take an absolute idiot to attempt to weld in the ID of a boggo 1.3 popular to anythin other than itself, the ultimate in pointless ringers

 

I put new floor pans in mine and i havent got that number its just plain.

 

spoke to halshaws in preston they told me to speak to there body shop when i rang the said they will restamp the floors dont think they will look original though as i had a new vin plate and the font was different and stuff was missing but they said that its the way they do them no

 

if you look about enough you will find a stamp kit decent enough, a bit of headscratching and using your loaf you will get it pretty damn near what it should be.

its soooo worth it theres nothing worse that no floor number send people running

 

if your planing to keep it for ever you will be ok it's just if you want to sell it people may run like said in the above post.

 

BTW, the stamps are available quite easily, including the five pointed star symbol.