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Whats the legal definition of an aeroscreen...?

How tall does it have to be before the SVA requires it to have windscreen wipers and demister etc...?

Cheers

Peter

It's to do with the height with respect to the seat. I don't know the exact details but they have a rig that they put in your seat at SVA. It adjusts to the back rest angle. They have an "average eye level" thing and the windsreen / aeroscreen height is set relative to that.

It might be easier to install the aeroscreen post SVA if you are worried it's too tall.

When you have to look through it not over it.

When Mr SVA wakes up in a bad mood

Actually, looking at the 2004 SVA manual PDF I see that page 64 says re windscreen regs

"All vehicles except:

a. Goods vehicles

b. vehicles not equipped with a windscreen through which the driver must look to obtain a view from his normal seated position, eg

- a fully opening windscreen
- a windscreen, the top edge of which is positioned below a horizontal plane as defined in the annex to this section

The annex defines funky angles and measurements to do with back height. But basically unless you're very tall and the examiner is small, if you have to look through it, its a windscreen.....

IE- exactly what Peteff said

Ben

ps You have U2U re SVA manual pdf

[Edited on 15/11/06 by BenB]

It's hidden in the front of the SVA manual...



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yep ^^^ that's the one. They have a speacial guage for it, strings, adjuble arms, spirit level thingies - quite complex - the SVA man said it was about the 2nd time he ever had to use it in the 5 yrs fo testing he did when I took mine for SVA

And it just passed

If you think yours is marginal, then remove it. (bit hard to do in my case as it was already fitted oin a mysterious way).