don't get too excited......what size steering wheels you useing, and would you have gone bigger/smaller given the chance....

thanks in anticipation...Jon.

I'm using the original Sierra wheel until after the SVA, then I've got a nice 12" leather-bound one that's going straight on...

380mm, but hey, diameter isn't everything is it.

Yes it's the original sierra one till after the SVA. Or maybe till after stoneleigh, last year there was a pile of mountneys for only 2 or 3 quid each, they were a bit tattie but you can't knock that price, didn't have the adpaters though.

On roughly the same subject, is a collapsable steering column part of the SVA? I have a column from a Mk II Escort but the book wibbles on about collapsable from Allegro / Nova's

John,

SVA states that:

"A vehicle may be assessed on its merits but will invariably require the steering column shaft to incorporate an arrangement of universal joints/ couplings and/or a collapsible tube/slider section that ensures displacement of the upper column is minimized"

There are other bits in there about collapsible columns too. We've taken ours from a Sierra, which I believe is pretty standard.

Just to cover as many options as possible, I have:

1. A non-braced bit of chassis in front of the steering rack (it protects the bottom of my radiator)

2. A pair of universal joints that displace the steering column by a few degrees

3. A joint that would collapse on impact (where the Sierra steering down-link joins the steering column)

4. A collapsible tube in the steering column

...I think I've covered all the angles!

Anyone who uses a Sierra column should have items 3 & 4, even if the angle in 2 is insufficient (as mine probably is)

My motto is to minimise the possibility of complaints in the SVA!

I had to get a colapsible boss for my wheel,watch those cheap wheels,there may be a reason for them being so cheap like not sva compliant