It’s a well known fact that when a vehicle is modified, the changes must be notified to DVLA.
Looking at a V5c, there is a section to notify a change to the Wheelplan, Body Type, Chassis number, CC Engine etc.
What doesn’t appear on the V5c is the requirement to notify any changes to the Suspension, Axles, Steering or modifications to the body or chassis.
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To understand how we have got to where we are with SVA and BIVA, we really need to understand where the legislators who dreamed all this up were coming from. In the end it all comes down to safety, with a touch of identity thrown in for consumer protection along the way.
Type Approval was introduced across Western Europe in the 1970s as part of an effort to ensure the car buyers’ safety by the fledgling EU (known then as the EEC for those who can remember that far back). As it was originally envisaged Type Approval would have, from 1977, banned any modifications at all and had it not been for the work of Rodders and the fledgling kit car industry that resulted in a consultation period, that led to the introduction of SVA, who knows where we would actually be now?
ShareThere are some kits that are manufactured to fit already registered chassied vehicles and others are creating hybrids with the (almost) complete mechanicals from one vehicle with a different body fitted.
As the basic component identity of the vehicle does not change, per DVLA rules , they would not lose their ‘right to registration’ and therefore would not require SVA /BIVA.
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VOSA Clarification on Body/Chassis points rules
Some of you will have taken the time to find the rules that govern how much you are allowed to modify your vehicle before its identity is called into question.
Whilst the 8 points system has been in place for at least 27 years (in its current form) DVLA have been sadly remiss in making the guidelines relating to car modifying known to those that it affects.
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