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Mate of mine admiring my escort scratched his head as to how im gonna get my ""thing"" through a B.I.V.A

his cobra failed last week, because there was no rating numbers on the HT leads, the fuel regulator never had a warning sticker on it to say there was flamable liquid inside, and he didnt have a weight certificate for the locking wheel nuts to say that they were in tollerance with the other nuts fitted.

any one else had their car fail on something so silly?

B.I.V.A ?
What country are you on about?(none listed in your details)

I guess that the test has to be tough, but I think that "Horn emits a slightly poor tone" is taking it a bit too far. That's one from another forum, can't remember the car or whether it was a one-off or a flatpack.

Mitsuru wrote:B.I.V.A ?
What country are you on about?(none listed in your details)

BIVA = Basic Individual Vehicle Approval (Revised SVA)

Mitsuru wrote:B.I.V.A ?
What country are you on about?(none listed in your details)

I'm in a country called the United Kingdom, sometimes called the UK, or Great Brittan.

B.I.V.A is something your vehicle has to be subjected to if you modify the monocoupe shell in any way what so ever, from something petty like cutting the manual gearstick hole out of the tunnel to go for an auto shifter, to summit major like useing a different floor pan like my escort.

It's also some thing that affects anything thats not a direct repair, so probably about 70% of classics in brittan are illegally on the road.

bubs wrote:

Mitsuru wrote:B.I.V.A ?
What country are you on about?(none listed in your details)

I'm in a country called the United Kingdom, sometimes called the UK, or Great Brittan.

B.I.V.A is something your vehicle has to be subjected to if you modify the monocoupe shell in any way what so ever, from something petty like cutting the manual gearstick hole out of the tunnel to go for an auto shifter, to summit major like useing a different floor pan like my escort.

It's also some thing that affects anything thats not a direct repair, so probably about 70% of classics in brittan are illegally on the road.

was it you with the bmw escort conversion thread on the other pc site?

rich. wrote:was it you with the bmw escort conversion thread on the other pc site?

Yes mate - come on, keep up at the back there!

Here: http://www.practicallyclassics.co.uk/vi ... &sk=t&sd=a

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bubs wrote:Mate of mine admiring my escort scratched his head as to how im gonna get my ""thing"" through a B.I.V.A
his cobra failed last week, because there was no rating numbers on the HT leads, the fuel regulator never had a warning sticker on it to say there was flamable liquid inside, and he didnt have a weight certificate for the locking wheel nuts to say that they were in tollerance with the other nuts fitted.
any one else had their car fail on something so silly?

The non branded HT leads fail is correct, they have to have a manufacturer’s name on them to show that they comply with ‘Noise suppression’ regs, so that they don’t interfere with TV signals etc, not in car stuff.
But there are no regs that we are aware of for the other two, particularly the wheel nut weight certificate, those two I would challenge.

JPB wrote:I guess that the test has to be tough, but I think that "Horn emits a slightly poor tone" is taking it a bit too far. That's one from another forum, can't remember the car or whether it was a one-off or a flatpack.

The Horn failure would probably come under the reg that requires a ‘Single constant note’, the description given for the fail doesn’t really help with credibility, but that would also be an MOT failure.

The test is tougher than an MOT, but then it has to be. It’s not un-passable though.
This one was put through the Goods SVA a couple of years back. OK the GVSVA is less onerous than BIVA but it passed and it completely road legal.


This one went through full BIVA recently.



The important thing is to have the BIVA manual to hand and build to the regs, that way you may end up with fails on very minor things, but then you have 7 days to fix those and represent, without charge, fails on major things have a six month correction period and the retest is £90 not, as many people have said, a full test charge again.

We have a link to the current BIVA manual on the ACE website, along with much more information.

http://www.the-ace.org.uk/biva-manual-finalised.html

Steve Wallace
The ACE team

thanks steve,
he is a great help in these things he helped me with my turner imp project which i will be starting on this summer and hopely get it on the road next few years fingers crossed, but some of the rules are abit unfair like cutting a hole for a sunroof means you have to have B.I.V.A whats the world coming to