molo
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| posted on 5/3/08 at 12:41 PM |
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sva - where to start ??
can anyone tell me where to start in the process of applying for SVA?
I've been told I will need a build up inspection for an age related plate, but seeing as though I'd be happy with a Q jobby do I still
need it?
Also what and when do I need the dvla ?
It all seems a bit daunting,
taa very much
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Guinness
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| posted on 5/3/08 at 01:17 PM |
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Hi Molo!
As you live in Tyne & Wear, you'll probably end up using Sandy Lane Test Centre and Gosforth DVLA.
This is how I did it:
1. Apply for SVA, fill out the forms etc, making up your own VIN number (according to the rules, 17 digits and no i's or o's I think?)
send to Swansea.
2. Swansea write back to you, wanting to see proof that you built the car (photos etc) and ask you to fill in an amateur built form. Send that back
to them.
3. Sandy Lane ring you and offer you a number of appointment times, usually 2 - 3 weeks away. Book the appointment over the phone with them.
4. Attend SVA! Fail! Probably  Important, if you are not going to make it, cancel the appointment! The charge for DNA (did not attend) is
pretty steep.
5. Re-test, pass! Probably! 
6. Take it home, go visit DVLA Gosforth. Take a seat, wait (usually 2-3 weeks  ). Meet with them, explain that you have a kit car and arrange the
inspection. They only do home visits on a Monday or something and will try to give you a date 4-6 weeks away! But you can bring it to them to
inspect at Gosforth.
7. Trailer the car up to Gosforth for your inspection. They inspect the car, brief look over to make sure the chassis number is there, engine no
matches. They take your paperwork, and your cash. You take car home.
8. 3-5 working days later, you get a bit of paper allowing you to get your plates made up.
9. 5-7 days later you get a tax disc and v5 in the post! Time to play.
Doesn't matter about new, age or q the process at Gosforth is the same. The plate you get relates to how inventive your paperwork gets !
HTH
Mike
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BenB
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| posted on 5/3/08 at 01:19 PM |
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Unfortunately due to the way the DVLA is organised, there's no single answer. DVLA Swansea produce "guidelines" for the local
offices to interpret. However, they frequently make a pig's ear of it and you then have a situation where the local office says they're
waiting for a decision from Swansea and Swansea say they only give guidelines and it's up to the local office to get involved with individual
cases....
The DVLA like to get involved early to decide your VIN for you. When you apply for SVA you need to state the VIN. If you make up your own VIN you may
run into problems afterwards.
SVA is (hopefully straightforward). What else happens depends on your DVLA office. Some do a build-up inspection before SVA, some do it afterwards,
some want a build-up report with photos, some don't.
Only trouble is half the time the local DVLA offices don't know what they want (other than a good kick up the jacksy)...
IE best option is to d/w your local DVLA office and go from there....
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jimgiblett
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| posted on 5/3/08 at 02:26 PM |
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The SVA application process has recently changed.
When you send in your application form a letter will be sent back to you requesting
"Please submit photographic evidence of the vehicle in various stages of build and the original receipts for the major parts you purchased to
build the vehicle when returning the completed declaration by post to confirm your vehicle class. VOSA are unable to process your application until
satisfactory evidence of Amateur Build status (as defined in the Motor Vehicles (Approval) Regulations 2001, has been confirmed."
Nice punctuation!
What this suggests is that the photographic evidence and receipts is not to determine age but to determine that the car was amateur built and not
subject to eSVA.
I have just sent mine in so fingers crossed.
- Jim
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 5/3/08 at 03:41 PM |
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or save up and buy one second hand for a few thousand less than it would have cost you to build anyway plus skipping all SVA the hassle, then modify
it to your hearts content 
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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snapper
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| posted on 5/3/08 at 07:02 PM |
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quote:
or save up and buy one second hand for a few thousand less than it would have cost you to build anyway plus skipping all SVA the hassle, then modify
it to your hearts content
Oh Mr Whippy ( is that a name or an occupation?) you cynic,
what about the chalenge,
what about the divorce proceeding,
what about the look of abject boardam on the faces of your mates down the pub, what about the nasty letters about your overdraft,
Have you no sence of adventure......
NO..... you are right if i had bought one ready built it would have cost me half of what i have spent and i would have been driving it for its 4th
year by now.
NO... its the challenge and the achievement.
It is isn't it? More beer that will help
and
phychotherapy
I eat to survive
I drink to forget
I breath to pi55 my ex wife off (and now my ex partner)
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molo
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| posted on 5/3/08 at 07:58 PM |
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I'm buggered if i'm saving up for one now !! mine's just about finished !!!
oh.. and thanks for the replies, I know what I've got to do now (at least I think so!!)
cheers again
OH... and where does the thousands come into it?... I'm only up to about £800, and it doesn't look as bad as it sounds!! although I doubt
if i'm going to win any beauty competitions
[Edited on 5/3/08 by molo]
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02GF74
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| posted on 5/3/08 at 09:29 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Guinness
1. Apply for SVA, fill out the forms etc, making up your own VIN number (according to the rules, 17 digits and no i's or o's I think?)
send to Swansea.
ARRGGHJHH!!!!! Here we go again.
Search on my post about VIN.
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