In a bid to save myself £37 I have downloaded a draft copy of the SVA inspection manual from VOSA's web site. I found the link on a cobra forum...

http://www.vosa.gov.uk/vosa/publications/sva%20draft%20manual.pdf

Don't know why they would publish a draft? Does anyone know if this is likely to have any glaring omissions? The issue dates seem to top out at March 2004...

Any help much appreciated.

I would get the full one if I were you - as I understand it, the draft is not complete (if you search for "draft" in the SVA/Legal forum on here you will find more info) - 50 pages less.

At the end of the day, you want to be able to pass SVA, so using a shorter draft risks missing something important

there's a download link on here somewhere to the latest full version, downloaded it the other day, not much difference to the draft one that I already had downloaded but there are a few more bits.

doubt it would make the difference between pass and fail tho.

There is a full version hosted by 'worzelgummage' or something like that, the links are posted elsewhere in this forum.

Mick

sva manual link

Im quite surprised by how many times that things been downloaded!

[Edited on 27/3/06 by Gav]

Thanks for the link... wish I hadn't rushed about printing the version I downloaded!!!
Oh well...