I'm looking at some mats for our RRS 2006, I purchased a O/E set which do not fit. The front pairs eyelets are in the rough center of the mat at the rear most, nearest the seat but the locating finger is more towards the transmision tunnel (also the colour was ocean green but that was my fault as I got sucked in by the picture not the text!), anyways looking for another set and again the locating hole is in the same place so wouldn't fit my car. Is there anything I should quote to the vendors before purchasing other than the usual model/year that would identify our car.

2006 HSE.

Steve.

I have a facelift MY2010 when interior had major revision, and your description sounds exactly like the mats fitted to mine.

Would suggest you specify 2005 to 2008. My 2010 MY was registered Sept 2009.

Hope that helps.

For 2005 -2009 cars the OEM mats are a difference to design to the 2010-2013 cars. There was a safety recall on the original 2010 mats as it was found they could creep forwards and prevent the brake pedal travelling to the bumpstop in an emergency. There is a stickied message about it. This means that you cannot use pre 2010 mats in a post 2010 car. When buying mats from Land Rover after market suppliers (Bearmach/ Simmonites et al) you have to specify the model year.
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