Wouldn't this be an IVA fail? If so, how do Vauxhall get away with it on a 2010 model year car? Discuss
I've currently got a Vauxhall Zafira 1.8 petrol on hire. I noticed when I refuelled it that the fuel flap unlocks with the central locking but
the filler cap inside has no lock itself and isn't tethered to the filler neck. Hence it's possible to leave the cap off after fuelling and
drive away. It's not like some tethering device has fallen off this particular car because a different Zafira I had last week had the same
filler cap arrangement.
Wouldn't this be an IVA fail? If so, how do Vauxhall get away with it on a 2010 model year car? Discuss
Nope...
you should see the lengths of unsupported brake lines under the bonnet of my birds corsa
The rules for EU type approval are very different than those for the IVA. If you have EU type approval, then you don't need the IVA. The
ergonomics of new cars conflict with the IVA regs and some of the lights on new cars wouldn't pass. Similarly, if you were to use parts from a
new factory car on your kit, then it may still fail the IVA.
Don't bother to discuss.....
so do the testers assume that because the car is made by a big company and mass produced that it will be well built and can be less stringent that
some little vagrant like myself building a car for road use on my own in a dark, smelly garage with nothing but a hacksaw and a hammer!?!!
It doesn't make sense to me...
I suspect it has an anti spill flap inside the neck which prevents any fuel coming out in the event the cap is left. This is an acceptable alternative
in type approval to the key or tether, I would have thought IVA would allow it as well.
IVA is just watered down type approval; usually the requirements are relaxed a bit for IVA but sometimes there are more complicated ways of complying
with various things that would be too difficult to include in a document as simple as the IVA manual.
Type approval is needing tightened up and made an even playing field accross Europe particularly on lighting the positioning of the lights on some VAG and Renault Nissan cars is very poor.
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Originally posted by graememk
you should see the lengths of unsupported brake lines under the bonnet of my birds corsa
Mate of mine has a new(ish) focus which doesn't have a filler cap at all!
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Originally posted by graememk
you should see the lengths of unsupported brake lines under the bonnet of my birds corsa
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Originally posted by pekwah1
so do the testers assume that because the car is made by a big company and mass produced that it will be well built and can be less stringent that some little vagrant like myself building a car for road use on my own in a dark, smelly garage with nothing but a hacksaw and a hammer!?!!
It doesn't make sense to me...
