Modified Vehicle SVA Petition

[StumpyGV]

Hi, most of you will be aware of the problems I am having with my modified Grand Vitara "Stumpy" - after bobbing the back of the truck off I was subjected to a Vehicle Identity Check initiated by a cherished number transfer. During this inspection the DVLA deemed it "Radically Altered" and refered the vehicle to VOSA (Vehicle and Operator Services Agency) for an SVA test (Single Vehicle Approval), the problem being that the SVA test does not cater for modified vehicles.

So the petition is calling for VOSA to introduce a "Modified Vehicle" Class into the SVA test procedure to cater for owners, such as us offroaders, to be able to get their vehicles tested, passed and on the roads (and more importantly offroad!) as modified and individual vehicles...

Please "sign" the petition if you agree with it, this anomaly stands to cause problems now, and in the future, for many of us who modify our vehicles.

http://www.petitiononline.com/uksva/petition.html

Thanks
Dave Jones
www.Stumpy.me.uk

[Lincs niva]

Signed it from the difflock link mate good luck :D

Cheers Gav

[rollazuki]

Why not just get it sva'd?
Its not that hard to 'cheat' by applying padding, covers, and so on to the testable items.
Since most of the mods are at the rear of your car, the front shouldnt be too hard to SVA proof should it??

[baz2236]

Signed

[StumpyGV]

Rollazuk : That's the whole issue... they won't let me have an SVA until I can "prove" it is an amateur built "kit" car... so they are advising me that I need to strip it down to the chassis level and then rebuild it taking pictures of it as I rebuild it, and then submit it for the "amateur built" (kit car) class. When clearly it isn't an amateur built kit, it's a modified production vehicle.

SVA's classes are as follows :

N = Left hand Drive
P = Personal Import
T = Armoured Vehicle
M = Hearse, Motor Ambulance, Motor caravan
A = Amateur Built
C = Vehicle built by a person in the business of building vehicles using parts of a vehicle registered in Great Britain
S = Rebuilt Vehicle
L = Vehicle manufactured in very low numbers
R(ESVA) = A vehicle that is not in any of the classes shown above (which is an Enhanced SVA, i.e. even harder!)
D = Disabled Person's Vehicle
E = European Single Approval

So VOSA say the only way to proceed is through the "A = Amateur Built" class. So how can the DVLA refer your vehicle to VOSA as being "Radically Altered" when they clearly don't have a class for modified vehicles.

The petition is initiated through my experiences, but it does (or will) effect anyone "radically" modifying an offroad vehicle...

Dave

[Oz]

singed for my ya good luck

[MuD ChUckER]

signed ...and good luck Stumpy

[StumpyGV]

:lol:

Last word on the SVA... literally!

So as not to wind VOSA up, I've decided to back down and just strip Stumpy down and re-submit him at a later date as an "amateur built" (kit car) class application...

It's the only way I'm going to get him through, and although I don't like the idea of disguising / mispresenting his origins, it has to be worth it to get him back on the road. I've spent far too much time and money on him not to finish him off and get him in the mud!

Thanks to all that have shown support for the idea of changing the SVA test, but it seems to be not worth starting a crusade...

I'm going to lie-low for a bit, enjoy Christmas, and in the meantime strip and rebuild Stumpy ready for submission sometime early in the new year.

Not much will be publically said about his new submission, no point winding the powers that be up anymore. My website has already been changed to a watered down vague history!  :lol:

So once again, thanks for your support... and best of luck to anyone that comes up against it, like me you'll be on your own and have to make your own way through it :( ... somehow  :roll:

Dave

[Diesel Destroyer]

Dave.. I'd have thought Stumpy came in the  T class..

Armoured!!  :twisted:

Signed...

Al[/b]

[tdci bob]

Signed. I had a kit car, when i took it for sva it failed on lots of silly things, so i know how evil vosa can be.