Has anybody Seen or read about this?

[crs2000]

http://www.the-ace.org.uk/Chassis-and-M ... ation.html

 

wot do ya think? will it affect us as well who modify our cars?

[e501]

yes, i think a lot of older cars will no longer qualify for free road tax among other things.

[FredTransit]

Quite honestly, the DVLA will know what you tell them! The main time anybody professional will see your car is at MOT. If you go to an OSF friendly station, why would you get grassed up for safely executed mods? If they are not safe then rightly it should fail the MOT.

 

By all means, tell your insurance company, but for many things, there is no allowance on the V5 for changes (eg 4 speed to 5 speed conversion, they are both manual) which to me is the main point of notification of changes to a vehicle for the DVLA.

 

Now, I know the DVLA and VOSA are two different bodies, but on the whole, VOSA have no cause to record mods you your car (or van) unless they are not safe (IE at MOT test). The DVLA keeps a record of your vehicle, wheel plan, colour ect, but as I already said manual is manual and auto is auto, standard engine sizes don't say how it's fitted.

 

You could change a mark three escort to RWD and yet if you don't change the engine size , as far as the V5 goes there is nothing to report.

 

As already mentioned, this is largely to do with removing tax exempt status form some cars, what else would it be about?

 

Incidentally, according to this

 

Scoring components

 

The following values will be allocated to the major components used:

 

* chassis or body shell (body and chassis as one unit - monocoque ie direct replacement from the manufacturer) (original or new) = 5 points

* suspension = 2 points

* axles = 2 points

* transmission = 2 points

* steering assembly = 2 points

* engine = 1 point

 

At least one of my vehicles would be without an ID, and yet it's taxed, tested and insured and on the road today. Also been stopped by VOSA more than once, and the police on spot checks. Yet, if I called them up and told them what had, over the years, been done to it, they would take back the V5 soooo quick it would make your head spin. Why make life hard foryourself?

[Stu_B]

I think this is a pearoast.

 

My local garage has always added to the end of the MOT sheet that my car is modified.

[FredTransit]

How long ago was that Stu? Heard anything from VOSA/DVLA about it? As I said, if it still matches the V5, why would they be interested.

I can't help thinking this is mainly for the guys that build cars from the ground up, then give them a tax exempt ID when it looks nothing like the ID, not visually or structurally.

[Stu_B]

Well there's two threads on it running at the same time

 

http://www.oldskoolford.co.uk/phpBB2/vi ... p?t=111869

[Messenjah]

Quite honestly, the DVLA will know what you tell them! The main time anybody professional will see your car is at MOT. If you go to an OSF friendly station, why would you get grassed up for safely executed mods? If they are not safe then rightly it should fail the MOT.

 

By all means, tell your insurance company, but for many things, there is no allowance on the V5 for changes (eg 4 speed to 5 speed conversion, they are both manual) which to me is the main point of notification of changes to a vehicle for the DVLA.

 

Now, I know the DVLA and VOSA are two different bodies, but on the whole, VOSA have no cause to record mods you your car (or van) unless they are not safe (IE at MOT test). The DVLA keeps a record of your vehicle, wheel plan, colour ect, but as I already said manual is manual and auto is auto, standard engine sizes don't say how it's fitted.

 

You could change a mark three escort to RWD and yet if you don't change the engine size , as far as the V5 goes there is nothing to report.

 

As already mentioned, this is largely to do with removing tax exempt status form some cars, what else would it be about?

 

Incidentally, according to this

 

Scoring components

 

The following values will be allocated to the major components used:

 

* chassis or body shell (body and chassis as one unit - monocoque ie direct replacement from the manufacturer) (original or new) = 5 points

* suspension = 2 points

* axles = 2 points

* transmission = 2 points

* steering assembly = 2 points

* engine = 1 point

 

At least one of my vehicles would be without an ID, and yet it's taxed, tested and insured and on the road today. Also been stopped by VOSA more than once, and the police on spot checks. Yet, if I called them up and told them what had, over the years, been done to it, they would take back the V5 soooo quick it would make your head spin. Why make life hard foryourself?

 

However isnt is to do with modifications carried out at any one time ? and with different design ...

 

 

for example if you were to replace nackerd suspension with brand new but of the same design it would not be an issue but were you to replace a leaf spring set up to a 5 liked rear end with coilovers at the same time as changing from xflow to pinto and auto to manual and steering box to steering rack conversion all at the same time on an anglia you would loose enough points to mean it would loose its id ...