Monthly Archives: August 2012

Put your pitchforks away and go home?

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Put your pitchforks away and go home, modified vehicles are safe - Armageddon is averted. At least that’s what some people think!

European parliament procedure is, it seems, even more complicated than we realised.

When the EU Roadworthiness document came to our attention it was perceived as requiring immediate attention, with September 5th deadline given by DfT for input into their questionnaire. This is also the date widely being used by other countries for their deadline for stakeholder input.

It now appears, based on articles on other sites that the legislation is further away than was first feared.
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Armageddon

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ACE has always been of the opinion that modifying of vehicles would eventually end by the ability to do so being slowly eroded by small pieces of legislation rather than one single regulation.

We have unfortunately now been proved correct with a single item before the EC parliament that will prevent any modifying and will, currently, render already modified cars illegal.

Without a large effort over the next 6 weeks this ’proposal’ will pass into law very shortly afterwards.
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Historic MoT Exemption update

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We’ve been making further enquiries, especially with regard to insurance consequences and we are pleased that the latest news from VOSA is more positive.
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