02GF74
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| posted on 11/3/07 at 09:22 AM |
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drive to inspection - conflicting DVLA info.
when I was in DVLA office for registration, woman told me to check I am insured for accidents so I inferred from that she meant when o n the road
(can't recall now if she mentioned driving or not).
Anyway, get inspection letter confirmation and it states:
"you should be aware it is offense to use/keep an unlicensed vehicle on public road or to use vehicle subject to testing on road without current
test certificate (MOT). If you would be commiting such an offense, you must arrange for your vehicle to be transported on a trailer or low
roader."
So there seems to be a conficlt in info. here? One person seems to be saying you can drive but letter says not.
What have other folks done?
Will the inspectors be interested on how you get to the centre or just do their job of inspecting??
..... and if I do arrange transport, it would need to be both ways since it is just an inspection and they won't get me registered at the same
time or will they?
[Edited on 11/3/07 by 02GF74]
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Catpuss
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| posted on 11/3/07 at 09:29 AM |
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Its an interesting point as the new Haynes book [1] also says you have to trailer the car to the SVA.
[1] Its not a service book so I guess it can't be called a book of lies 
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nick205
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| posted on 11/3/07 at 09:35 AM |
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I was told the same by Portsmouth DVLA last week. At the same time, they also flatly refused to come and inspect the vehicle too. They did confirm
that the rules were different for SVA where it is perfectly OK to drive an otherwise untested, uninspected, un-registered, un-taxed car on the public
highway (insured on a chassis no.) - go figure??????
Anyway after further discussions, they told me that the DVLA inspection could be carried out at the SVA centre (Southampton in my case) on Wednesday
mornings. My SVA retest is this Thursday and then I will be submitting my registration application etc and requesting my inspection at the SVA
centre. I see no reason why, having driven there twice already, I shouldn't drive there a 3rd time to get the car DVLA inspected. So
that's what I will be doing 
Personally I have found VOSA to be sensible, practical and reasonable to deal with. The DVLA have been in incompetant bordering on obstructive 
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02GF74
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| posted on 11/3/07 at 09:39 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Catpuss
Its an interesting point as the new Haynes book [1] also says you have to trailer the car to the SVA.
the books is clearly wrong.
Rear of SVA failure sheets says:
It is an offsense to use a vehicle that requires type approval without a MAC confirming compliance with the type approval except for the
purposes of:
(now none of these apply to me since I have a MAC!)
a) submitting it, by previous arrangement for examination for approval
b) bringing it away from such an exmination
v) delivering it, by prevous arrangement, to a place where relevant work to be done following failure to get MAC
d) bringing it away from c)
(I abbreviated it a bit but the jist ^^^^ is there)
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ReMan
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| posted on 11/3/07 at 09:49 AM |
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No problem driving to SVA inspection as documented on my appointment letter.
MOT and DVLA "could" be different, see this thread and its links.
http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=52502
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RazMan
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| posted on 11/3/07 at 10:25 AM |
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I recently heard from a mate that he was told NOT to drive to his DVLA inspection so he was forced to hire a trailer.
This advice conflicts with my own experience with the same DVLA office (Chelmsford) They told me to bring evidence of insurance and DRIVE the car to
the inspection.
Logically you would think that the car should be trailered to SVA and then driven to DVLA having passed all the safety checks.
All this red tape is very confusing - it seems that even the Plod don't really understand it either. It makes you wonder what could have
happened in the unfortunate event of an accident - would you be covered? 
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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goodall
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| posted on 11/3/07 at 11:19 AM |
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they are insureance companies, they will try there best no matter what to not pay out, so in all likely hood the insureance company wouldent pay out
because they can prove you were doing something aganist the law since these laws seem to kinda contradict eachother so no matter what you do your
breaking it by driveing the car
[Edited on 11/3/07 by goodall]
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robinj66
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| posted on 11/3/07 at 12:54 PM |
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I can't remember the exact wording but the reason you can drive to/from SVA and MOT (providing you are insured) is because these are MANDATORY
requirements. the DVLA inspecton doesn't fall into the same category.
I was lucky in that I managed to arrange my inspection for the same day s the SVA and was therefore "returning" from the SVA
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rusty nuts
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| posted on 11/3/07 at 03:14 PM |
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Peterborough DVLA told me to drive to inspection .
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chrisg
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| posted on 11/3/07 at 03:26 PM |
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The information in the book is straight from VOSA, confirmed by the tester at Nottingham.
The legislation surrounding all registration issues is incredibly vague.
I wouldn't have wanted anyone to use the book's information, driven to the SVA test and fallen foul of the law, you KNOW you're
legal if you trailer it.
As far I'm aware it's legal to drive to the DVLA inspection, with insurance.
Cheers
Chris
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