tofufi
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Mar 11, 2023 17:36:12 GMT
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Amazing - thank you for posting this!
Do you know the name of the company near Salisbury who built the car?
It might be possible to find out more if the company is still building wheelchair accessible vehicles.
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tofufi
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message sent
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tofufi
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Feb 27, 2023 10:35:09 GMT
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Airbags are not, and have never been, mandatory fitment at the point of manufacture/type approval... Actually, they have. The standard car is what gets approval, and airbag equipped stuff used to have an airbag symbol on the vin tag on the dash (no idea where that is on the nearer stuff tho) No, they don't. The crash requirements mandate performance criteria, not fitment of an airbag. UNECE R94 is frontal crash, UNECE R95 is side impact. Neither mandates fitment of an airbag. (Source: I work for the DfT approving new vehicles with regard to crash safety).
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tofufi
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Feb 26, 2023 10:50:59 GMT
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To make things more awkward it's a p reg which is right on the crossover of when it became mandatory at time of manufacture. Airbags are not, and have never been, mandatory fitment at the point of manufacture/type approval...
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tofufi
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Feb 26, 2023 10:45:39 GMT
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Stunning fabrication work. I'm sure more attention is being paid to the panel quality than the VW factory did when it was built! Great stuff
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tofufi
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Welcome to the world of government & vehicles . Nothing makes sense when you dig down into it . Try being an MoT tester & working out what they mean & how they even came up with the wording . Try working for DfT and understanding the UNECE and GB adopted (formerly EU) type approval legislation for new vehicles I suspect that at a point in time, someone decided that there should be a way to define when a vehicle is no longer considered to be the original vehicle. At another point in time, someone decided some vehicles should be MOT exempt, but not if they're substantially modified. Someone probably wrote some rules, taking no heed (or being unaware) of the similar ones for something else.
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Last Edit: Feb 22, 2023 9:23:46 GMT by tofufi
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tofufi
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Taken from the gov.uk website www.gov.uk/government/publications/historic-classic-vehicles-mot-exemption-criteria/historic-classic-vehicles-mot-exemption-criteriaAcceptable changes It does not count as a ‘substantial change’ if: changes are made to preserve a vehicle because the original type parts are no longer reasonably available they are changes of a type which can be demonstrated to have been made when vehicles of the type were in production or within 10 years of the end of production axles and running gear have been changed to improve efficiency, safety or environmental performance changes were made to vehicles that were previously used as commercial vehicles, and you can prove the changes were made when the vehicle was used commercially Just to throw a bit of confusion into the ring... All of the above relates to MOT exemption. The term 'substantial change' is used, whereas for vehicle identity the term 'radically altered' is used. My understanding is that the 8-point rule for vehicle identity is stand-alone from the MOT exemption rules, and doesn't make any allowance for parts being unavailable. Of course, on a standard car with a new front axle (and unmodified monocoque) you'd still have 8+ points overall, so it would be able to retain the original ID.
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tofufi
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Feb 20, 2023 13:10:34 GMT
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Current round town/short distance journey daily of 5+ years: Although I try to use most of my cars when I'm able to, some don't make it out much when there's salt on the roads.
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tofufi
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Feb 19, 2023 21:05:20 GMT
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Great work! That engine looks just like half an Aircooled VW engine on the bench
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tofufi
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It does - but the fine will be for driving an unroadworthy vehicle, not for driving with no MOT. No, it's worse as you are now knowingly driving an unroadworthy vehicle. ... BUT, if that car failed an MOT and you then get pulled over a month later with the fault still there you wont have a leg to stand on. And as I said earlier there will also be the issue of what your insurance company thinks about it. Driving an unroadworthy vehicle was never suggested. Fixing it and carrying on driving, without re-MOTing it, wouldn't be an issue as you then couldn't get the fine for driving an unroadworthy vehicle.
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tofufi
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Jan 23, 2023 11:22:57 GMT
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I thought the MOT was voided if you had a dangerous MOT marker. In that case, isn't the fine into the 1000s if you are pulled over? In theory, I thought the car technically couldn't see the road before the dangerous items are remedied. Looking on the direct gov website it says: "You can be fined up to £2,500, be banned from driving and get 3 penalty points for driving a vehicle that has failed its MOT because of a ‘dangerous’ problem". It does - but the fine will be for driving an unroadworthy vehicle, not for driving with no MOT.
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tofufi
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Legaly you have a duty to make it roadworthy but I can't see anywhere it says it needs to be re-tested. Same for police, they would have to find something wrong take evidence etc at the point they stop it same as any other car. Think about this as an example, when it has failed the owner could just sell it, the next owner while he should check it's roadworthy may have no idea it needed an MOT. In the same way as a normal car failing an MOT voids any remaining mot on that vehicle... It doesn't. www.gov.uk/getting-an-mot/after-the-test#:~:text=Driving%20a%20vehicle%20that%27s%20failed&text=your%20current%20MOT%20certificate%20is%20still%20validThe MOT still expires on the same date it did before the failure - you just shouldn't drive the vehicle until it is roadworthy again. There isn't anything I'm aware of which says the mot-exempt car needs to have passed an MOT after failing one. Personally, if I took an MOT exempt car for a test and it failed, I'd fix the failure points and carry on driving it. That said, I'm a chartered engineer who works in road safety and legislation for DfT, so I'd probably stand a fair chance of being able to argue that a competent person had deemed the vehicle roadworthy.
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Last Edit: Jan 19, 2023 8:58:20 GMT by tofufi
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tofufi
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Other than nearly blinding yourself, that is looking like superb work as always My car mojo disappears over winter, but glad to see you're keeping up the rate of progress!
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tofufi
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Just read the whole thread from start to finish.
Cracking work, throughout - especially with this being your first resto! Many, many hours...
Looking forward to it being completed.
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tofufi
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Fantastic. This thread has mostly made me miss Japan, but looking forward to seeing your adventures
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tofufi
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Dec 21, 2022 11:42:32 GMT
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tofufi
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Dec 21, 2022 10:59:03 GMT
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Not seen one of those for years - although there's a chap local to me with a couple of mk1 Mondeos (one saloon, one hatch) as well as several 60s Jags!
Looking forward to seeing what you do with this one!
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tofufi
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No - The emissions are only tested in a static environment to pass a minimum acceptable standard. ETA Q has nothing to do with BIVA - That's part of the registration process not the vehicle testing process. Unfortunately, I believe this is the correct answer. Production vehicle emissions are tested on a rolling road, and these values issued on the CoC used to register the vehicle. Self build IVA vehicles (kit cars etc) where there is no evidence of the vehicle type having been tested/approved are registered as PLG unless I'm much mistaken. www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=30&t=1521816
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tofufi
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You're pretty local to me but I don't recall spotting this one around! Looking forward to seeing some more updates
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Nov 30, 2022 14:40:10 GMT
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Garage time. I enjoy building cars as much as driving them(often more so these days) so I spend most of the winter located away making progress on projects. I've never really got on with "winter projects" as a concept. I am way too thin of skin to be suited to the UK climate. I do recall lying in the snow under a Morris Minor on my drive one new years day as a friend of my wife/gf of the time came to visit and said "oh, thats fun then is it?" But now less so. I suffer with the "SAD" so motivation becomes very hard, also I'm getting old and these bones ache. It also stuck me recently, what with working from home, commitment to shop local, trying to get more excercsie, etc, I don't drive much unless I think of a reason to actually get in a car and go somewhere... I feel your pain. I've another hobby which can be done indoors - I focus on this more in winter and do most of my car stuff in summer. Mojo is low though, so I'm tempted to sell a few cars to lighten the load. Can't bring myself to do it though (and my wife likes the ones that would be first to go...)
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Last Edit: Nov 30, 2022 14:40:45 GMT by tofufi
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