I am taking my Tiger Avon to the Notts DVLA office next week for inspection. I have the Tiger supplied chassis plate riveted to the car, can anyone
tell me whetherl dvla will also require the chassis number stamped into the chassis as well...Thanks
Yes they do. I only had it stamped in, in 2 places and they said i should have had a plate as well
It's my understanding that yes, they will require one, on the right hand side of the car. Either stamped in, or stamped to a plate and the plate
welded
John
No!
So that goes to prove again.....
Edited to say
Mine was at Nottingham and one rivvetted plate was enough.
But I see there are people above that have had more recent inspections than me, so they may have changed their mind
Cox
[Edited on 26/5/09 by ReMan]
they havent changed their mind. they never made it up in the first place 
IVA has changes in this respect from SVA, you now require a permanent marking (doesn't have to be stamped I use an engraving tool to etch the no.
on) on the RHS of the chassis & you also require an alloy plate or similar to be rivetted on elsewhere.
For DVLA I think a rivetted plate would be sufficient as they are simply checking the vehicle is marked as per their paperwork.
I dremelled mine on.
Obviously you have to go into the through the powder coat and into the metal. Then filled it in with silver hammerite to prevent rust.
It was dead easy to do and is permanent.
Matt
I have one plate riveted on to the bulkhead and I had another steel plate welded to one of the lower chassis plates in the engine bay. DVLA suggested that I might want to consider stamping the number out of sight somewhere less obvious as the welded plate could have the welds ground off and the plate replaced. I would think that the same could be said for a chassis tube on our cars!
Now that's interesting richard. welded on plate for SVA. stamped or in my case dremmeled in 2 places for DVLA at same DVLA office.
The one thing I've noticed with sva is it's all common sense..if it's on a production car within reason it should be on a kit car.
If a riveted plate was good enough for a production car then we'd all be buying bangers and nicking a good car and swapping the plate.. or I
would anyway
tony
A friend if mine **cough** took his kit to Nottingham with the number only on a riveted plate. He was asked where it was also stamped into the
chassis, he replied "Oh up under the front end, I can show you but it will take at least 45 minutes to strip all the parts off" The reply
was "No as long as it's also stamped on there it's okay" That was about 2 months ago, according to my friend. Of course when I
took mine there it had the number on twice **cough**
Alan...
Not a problem really, stamp it on where they can easliy see it and have a neat plate in the engine bay somewhere
I have stamped in 2 places, a plate in the engine bay and a couple hidden.
Anyone knicks the car i know where the hidden plates are.
thanks for the replies, ive stamped the number in so should be ok
I haven't even got a number yet - at what stage do you get one? ( I bought my chassis from ebay - not directly from Luego )
Getting your chassis number from Luego doesn't necessarily mean you will get a unique number!!! They have been known to issue the same number twice.
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Originally posted by rusty nuts
Getting your chassis number from Luego doesn't necessarily mean you will get a unique number!!! They have been known to issue the same number twice.
Don't know about anyone else but I got mine from old Luego a couple of weeks before applying for SVA which I passed before going to DVLA . Some have had the DVLA inspection before SVA and have been issued a chassis number