BIVA TEST!!!!

[coedy]

"Classic car enthusiasts who modify their cars could face a £450 test, get a Q-plate and lose free road tax, it emerged this week. Popular upgrades such as carburettor or gearbox swaps could make a car eligible for a six-hour assessment ordeal."

basically, anything that involves cutting any part off cars with monocoque chassis will mean having to get a 6-8 hour test (called a BIVA test) costing you £450... and you could end up on a Q plate, and if your car is tax exempt you will lose that as well...

anyone with a weber, turbo or engine swap to a modern engine that involves cutting the bulkhead etc is at risk...

see classic car weekly for more..

DVLA are fantastic aren't they...

[gar1380]

bunch of money grabbing anchor's :-(

[ljonez]

yep they want money any way they can get it.

not sure on the Q plate part tho because they dropped Q plates a while ago, now you just get a age related plate

[boycie101]

think it called extracting the urine

[daddypig]

The BIVA just replaces the SVA test and still works out on an 8 point score, comes in around 2012.

What is more worrying as you say is that it is going to be enforced much more, so when you amble along to your next MOT, Traffic cops, etc, will be looking out.

I think I said a number of posts back the way things are going to go.