IVA 9.0 New manual and glass revisions

The latest version has just been released June 2013 and links can be found at

https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-approval/individual-vehicle-approval-manuals

and

http://www.dft.gov.uk/vosa/publications/manualsandguides/vehicletestingmanualsandguides.htm

Direct PDF http://www.dft.gov.uk/vosa/repository/M1%20IVA%20Inspection%20Manual.pdf

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Classic Vehicles

The FBHVC has made the EU aware of the huge financial contribution of Classic vehicles and as such they have agreed that member states can exempt these vehicles from parts of legislation IF they so wish.

However the entire FBVHC argument is based on the facts collated from their survey that classic cars, in general, only cover 1500 kilometres per year. They even went so far as to ‘disown’ those using classics on a more regular or even daily basis.
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FIVA definition to be adopted by the EU?

As reported by ACE previously, FIVA (Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens) have developed a definition of just what an Historic vehicle is.
This was recently presented to the EU and potentially will become the basis of legislation.

This is an extract from the FIVA newsletter which was published by the FHBVC - FHBCV Blog
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