Morris Minor IVA test (Radically altered vehicles BIVA)

retropower did this.

Retropower have been asked about BIVA before, it's always dodged.

passthegrinder, have you looked at the BIVA manual at all? It looks intimidating but if you take section at a time it's not bad at all. Some sections will not apply
I bought a n A4 notebook and headed up sections and made notes of what I needed for each section.
As you have used an MX5 a lot should be to spec already.

the special loophole is using an mot and tax exempt vehicle and using that to hide behind, i’d look at the tax checker website to see if they have changed the CC etc , but as you know ignorance is bliss for some people

yeah i can see how that would be the case

It's not naughty in the slightest from retropowers perspective. They are paid by a customer to build a car to a spec, the paperwork side is nothing to do with them. If you pay a bodyshop to respray your car they don't register the colour change with the DVLA, if you pay a garage to change your engine they don't register the new engine number/cc. It's the registered keepers responsibility to log all changed details with the DVLA, not the company who do the work.

And trust, there's a hell of a lot more people who build their own cars who are "a bit naughty" than the few people a year who have their cars built by retropower. I get that they are a big company in the scene, but it's a bit silly people bringing their name into it when that side of things is absolutely nothing to do with them.

No nerve touched, I'm just pointing out that the finger is being pointed in the wrong direction. What retropower or anyone else does or doesn't do has zero effect on the difficulty of someone else building a car. There are rules you need to build your car to if you want it to pass, those rules are available for anyone who wants to follow them.

As for the ducks in a row, again that's nothing to do with the company doing the work unless the customer asks for them to line the ducks up. Customer tells the company what they want, company builds them what they want and takes their money. I'm fairly sure that with this sort of thing the discussion will take place about what "should be done", but if the customer isn't interested in that, then that's down to them, not the company. Which is probably why they "dodge" the question when it comes up, its not their responsibility but I'm sure they also don't want to publicly out someone who's just paid them a lot of money.


Should cars be built properly? Yes

Are most modified cars built properly? Probably not going off how many heavily modified cars I see still wearing their original regs... but that's non of my business.

This is basically what I was trying to say.
Perfectly put as far as I'm concerned.
Even if their customers are made to sign a disclaimer, it's not the greatest business ethic

So do they explain to the customers before starting the conversion that the car will never be able to be registered properly under its new identity?

The owner's insurers might be quite unkeen to provide cover, or to pay out in the event of a claim, if the vehicle was not registered correctly.