Registration and SVA

[Sando]

Something interesting for those replica owners who still have cars registered as their donor car i.e. Beta....You know who you are!
Just spotted this on the superb Total kit car site (http://www.totalkitcar.com/). If it is true you owe them a pint or two, you lucky .........people :)
cheers
Rob

"We got confirmation this week that DVLA (and they need a pat on the back for this) will now re-register incorrectly described kitcars that were built pre-1998 and the introduction of SVA. Frankly it scared me rigid how many Cobras that are described as Jaguars and the like, so this news is brilliant and means that kits affected won’t need retrospective SVA, which would be difficult and costly to pass (impossible in some). It basically means that if you have documentary evidence of the cars identity via a receipt from the original manufacturer and/or a collection of MoT certificates then you should be able to get your car correctly described on the V5C document from now on. With MoT stations preparing for computerisation and a direct link to the mainframe DVLA computer at Swansea, incorrectly registered cars would soon have been in difficulty. Thanks to our lobbying and Ian Hopley’s hard work this shouldn’t be a problem now. Well done Ian AND also the powers that be at DVLA."

[Chris J]

I'm going to church!

[chris.richard]

Something sensible, helpful and in the interests of punters? From a government agency? Shome mishtake, Mish Moneypenny?

[Chris J]

I can't see any comment about this statement by Total kit car about the DVLA on any other forum, yet.

I'd have thought the Rover and Jag registered Cobra owner's would have got hold of it by now?

[rutthenut]

It does sound too good to be true. Glad I put mine through in the past anyway.

I can imagine that the DVLA may be considering this, so offering for owners of incorrectly registered cars to come out of hiding - then they'll look at the car, decide that it might not meet their rules after all (wrong number of donor parts, for instance) and hit them with a Q plate or even threat of SVA testing.

Then again, the fact that MOT test centres will be using electronic links to the DVLA may have something to do with it.

[Sando]

I understood from the local vehicle inspector that this was a loophole that had been used successfully as a route of getting pre SVA cars correctly registered anyway.

Sounds to me that they are formalising it as a process. You do need proof of previous use on the road prior to 1998 though(tax discs etc) as I understand it, probably the original receipt for the kit too.
As you say john it could open up a can of worms if you don't have the correct documentation. But worth finding out more. I'm sure it will be a big discussion point in the kit car mags in the next few months.

cheers
Rob

[rutthenut]

Asked about this at my local MOT testing garage - they hadn't heard anything at all about it. But although they have their wonderful new computer system installed, they still have to wait weeks to get 'training' on it, so it isn't yet in use...

Maybe this is one of the things that crops up when using the electronic system, so perhaps that is when it would get resolved.

[Chris J]

Here's some comment:

http://www.ureader.co.uk/message/650908.aspx

[Chris J]

...and some here:

http://www.cobraclub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1143