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how do i get a chasiss number for my locost?
chunky2772 - 1/11/10 at 09:05 PM

ReMan - 1/11/10 at 09:17 PM

http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=14172

depends where you are and what day it is

martyn_16v - 1/11/10 at 09:19 PM

That depends entirely on your local DVLA office. Some insist on issuing you one that they've chosen, some will let you make up your own (as long as no one else has used it and it doesn't contain any disallowed characters). My local office just won't give you one at all, which is really helpful...

Guinness - 1/11/10 at 09:26 PM

If you are based in the North East and using Gosforth DVLA, this is what I did:-

Make up your own VIN number, 17 digits and include it on your SVA / IVA application to VOSA. VOSA write back to giving you your test date and referencing the VIN number in black & white. Get the plate made up. Go to the IVA and pass / fail / retest as many times as you need.

Take the MAC certificate with the VIN number on it, along with the letter to VOSA to the DVLA at Gosforth.

No they may be thick, awkward, stubborn and slow, BUT the one thing they won't argue with is another faceless government department. They just accepted my VIN number, because VOSA issued it.

Simples.

Hope that works for you.

Mike

big_wasa - 1/11/10 at 09:29 PM

Ah another job ive got todo this next week.

chunky2772 - 1/11/10 at 09:47 PM

thanks guiness do these 17 digits all have to be numbers or can you also put leters in the chasiss number

bitsilly - 1/11/10 at 09:58 PM

You are supposed to have checked with some agency that the number is unique. I told them I had and that was sufficient.

Guinness - 1/11/10 at 09:59 PM

quote:
Originally posted by chunky2772
thanks guiness do these 17 digits all have to be numbers or can you also put leters in the chasiss number


Mine is a mix of letters and numbers.

Mike

bitsilly - 1/11/10 at 09:59 PM

For SVA they could be letters or numbers.
Letters are more likly to be unique (each unit 26 options rather than 10).

chunky2772 - 2/11/10 at 08:43 PM

Thanks lads.

interestedparty - 2/11/10 at 10:11 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Guinness
No they may be thick, awkward, stubborn and slow, BUT the one thing they won't argue with is another faceless government department. They just accepted my VIN number, because VOSA issued it.



Oh yes they will (depending on which office). The Borehamwood one certainly will argue, even if a kit manufacturer issued it, and VOSA OK'd it.

b14wrc - 9/12/10 at 12:38 PM

Hi All,

Just wanting to know if i could use my donor car's VIN number and plate?

Cheers, Rob

interestedparty - 9/12/10 at 08:12 PM

quote:
Originally posted by b14wrc
Hi All,

Just wanting to know if i could use my donor car's VIN number and plate?

Cheers, Rob


No you can't. It's a different car, and it needs a different number.

b14wrc - 13/12/10 at 12:34 PM

Hi,

I hear what your saying about it being a different car, but those details can all be changed cant they? The engine number on the V5 will remain the same as it is the same engine..... so it would just be the body type, etc etc that would be altered..

No body gone down this route?

Cheers, Rob

martyn_16v - 13/12/10 at 07:09 PM

No, it's not legal.

renrut - 20/1/11 at 11:11 AM

quote:
Originally posted by interestedparty
quote:
Originally posted by b14wrc
Hi All,

Just wanting to know if i could use my donor car's VIN number and plate?

Cheers, Rob


No you can't. It's a different car, and it needs a different number.


I was going to do exactly this as my middy build uses the shell of an existing car with modifications, all the glass is stamped with the VIN as well as the chassis in 2 places which would make changing it a real pain.

Slightly different to a kit car as its a radically modified car with an engine in the back, however not enough of the original car remains to keep the reg plate. Gonna phone my local DVLA office today and see what they say. The DVLA national office just palmed me off with an 'ask your local office' response.