Daimler DS420 Parts Catalogue RTC9887FAG (Aug.2000)

If you are looking for vendors of DS420 spare parts go to my web-links page. This manual RTC9887FAG (Aug 2000) is the very last Parts Catalogue that was published for the DS420; it was issued on microfiche. Note that 'August 2000' is approx. 8 years after the production of the model ended. It explicitly states that it only serves the limousines built from July 1980 onwards (i.e. the cars that have the General Motors GM400 gearbox fitted). For older cars it recommends Parts Catalogue RTC9183B from 1978. For the earliest cars we have, from the 1971/1972 era, Parts Catalogue JC53. Between the recommended RTC9183B (1978) and the RTC9887FAG (2000) shown on this page we have Parts Catalogue RTC9887CD (1985), Parts Catalogue RTC9887FAB (1987) and Parts Catalogue RTC9887FAE (1989). Contrary to the paper based catalogues, the microfiches were organized as landscape-oriented double pages, effectively like landscape A3 format. Therefore they are best viewed on a landscape-oriented display. The microfiche editions started in January 1979, The first one had part number RTC9877FA. These microfiches were updated a few times per year and labeled RTC9877FA, RTC9877FB, RTC9877FC etc. In 1981 the prefix of the label changed from RTC9877 to RTC9887, again with a two letter suffix (three letter suffix from July 1987) to distinguish the subsequent editions. Most editions consist of two fiches, where one fiche holds up to 504 page images. The forelast one in my collection (not shown on this website) has part number RTC9887FAF and dates from February 1990. For a list of microfiche publication numbers and dates: click here.

After the title page this RTC9887FAG set of microfiches has a nine-page introduction; Click to see it here. Topics in this introduction are "Country groups", "Identification data" (shown here-below), and "Trim colour codes" (also shown here-below),

The following text was taken verbatim from the introduction

Vehicle identification Numbers (Prefix code):

V.I.N. commencing numbers:
Limousine: 200038 - Actual commencing date of manufacture: 4.7.80
Hearse: 400041

Engine commencing number: 7M4176 (engine number 7M4168 was also fitted with the new GM400 Auto Trans Unit).

Note: for models prior to the above number, please refer to Daimler Limousine Parts Catalogue RTC9183B or fiche RTC9877FG.

When ordering trimmed parts, the colour code suffix should be included with the part number, to ensure computer acceptance.

Example: BD46296/PA = Front door casing - RH Black

End of verbatim INTRODUCTION text taken from the introduction

The "symbols and abbreviations" section somehow missed the boat in this microfiche edition, although it is mentioned in the Table of Content. Therefore we copied it from an earlier edition:

The last part of the Introduction consists of 5 pages on "How to use the Jaguar parts microfiche". This "How to use" set is more or less superseded by the reorganization needed to present the fiches as web pages.

If you want to browse sequencially through the drawings of this manual (310 pp.) from the first drawing page on: Start Here

Apart from the drawing pages there are two sets of index fiches (click to access):

Both sets refer to the number(s) of the drawing page(s) where this part is being used. The numbers of the drawing pages can easily be matched against the table of contents that follows. This table of contents follows the sequence of pages in the manual:

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