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DVLA inspection - does it have to be my local?
FASTdan - 2/3/09 at 11:15 AM

Does your DVLA inspection HAVE to be your local office?

We are booked in at Chadderton on 31st March for the SVA (tuesday) and if it passes I'd like to get it inspected straight away - as it saves takign another day off work, we'll have the trailer (if we decide to do that) etc etc. However Leeds DVLA inspections are only on a monday or wednesday (at bloody limited times too).

So I was wondering if I could book into a DVLA inspection over manchester/oldham way? Does anyone have contact details for this? Or do you think I am going to have to use leeds (from Bradford btw)?

BenB - 2/3/09 at 11:20 AM

I very much doubt there's a rule saying it has to be the nearest one but IIRC someone on here had a similar problem and in that case the local office decided it had to be the nearest one... Worth asking though....

omega0684 - 2/3/09 at 11:35 AM

REMEMBER!

Driving to & from the SVA centre in your kit car is legal.

Driving to and from the DVLA inspection is illegal.(you would be driving without tax)

FASTdan - 2/3/09 at 11:47 AM

quote:
Originally posted by omega0684
REMEMBER!

Driving to & from the SVA centre in your kit car is legal.

Driving to and from the DVLA inspection is illegal.(you would be driving without tax)


good point! So i guess that needs considering when deciding if to trailer or not to trailer.....

pewe - 2/3/09 at 11:54 AM

Benefit of trailering is that if it does fail SVA on something like brake balance (which mine did) and they won't allow you to drive it you aren't stuffed for recovering it to home.
Cheers, Pewe

omega0684 - 2/3/09 at 11:56 AM

if you can get your dvla inspection and sva on the same day, i would drive the kit car to sva and have a mate drive a car with the trailer attached, after sva load the kitcar onto the trailer and drive to the dvla inspection centre, have your car inspected and the trailer the kitcar home,

job done

mad4x4 - 2/3/09 at 12:26 PM

Contact your the DVLA office that is local to your test station and get them to come to the SVA and check the car. That is what happened with mine in Aberdeen.

The DVLA inspector even knew the SVA tester and had a muse for 20 mins.

Have the DVLA really got that anal in the last 2 Years??

MikeR - 2/3/09 at 12:50 PM

when i phoned up about it a couple of years ago, the brum inspector only worked thursdays. If i had my SVA on a thursday and she wasn't too busy then she'd try and come down and have a look.

I'm not sure if that was a case of her covering herself with ifs / maybes in case something happened and she couldn't make it or if it really was a case of if she could be arsed.

James - 2/3/09 at 01:10 PM

My inspector came to my house about 6 weeks or so before SVA.

Made things a lot easier!

Hope that helps,
James