when I was in DVLA office for registration, woman told me to check I am insured for accidents so I inferred from that she meant when o n the road (can't recall now if she mentioned driving or not).

Anyway, get inspection letter confirmation and it states:
"you should be aware it is offense to use/keep an unlicensed vehicle on public road or to use vehicle subject to testing on road without current test certificate (MOT). If you would be commiting such an offense, you must arrange for your vehicle to be transported on a trailer or low roader."

So there seems to be a conficlt in info. here? One person seems to be saying you can drive but letter says not.

What have other folks done?

Will the inspectors be interested on how you get to the centre or just do their job of inspecting??

..... and if I do arrange transport, it would need to be both ways since it is just an inspection and they won't get me registered at the same time or will they?

[Edited on 11/3/07 by 02GF74]

Its an interesting point as the new Haynes book [1] also says you have to trailer the car to the SVA.



[1] Its not a service book so I guess it can't be called a book of lies

I was told the same by Portsmouth DVLA last week. At the same time, they also flatly refused to come and inspect the vehicle too. They did confirm that the rules were different for SVA where it is perfectly OK to drive an otherwise untested, uninspected, un-registered, un-taxed car on the public highway (insured on a chassis no.) - go figure??????

Anyway after further discussions, they told me that the DVLA inspection could be carried out at the SVA centre (Southampton in my case) on Wednesday mornings. My SVA retest is this Thursday and then I will be submitting my registration application etc and requesting my inspection at the SVA centre. I see no reason why, having driven there twice already, I shouldn't drive there a 3rd time to get the car DVLA inspected. So that's what I will be doing


Personally I have found VOSA to be sensible, practical and reasonable to deal with. The DVLA have been in incompetant bordering on obstructive

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Originally posted by Catpuss
Its an interesting point as the new Haynes book [1] also says you have to trailer the car to the SVA.

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No problem driving to SVA inspection as documented on my appointment letter.
MOT and DVLA "could" be different, see this thread and its links.
http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=52502

I recently heard from a mate that he was told NOT to drive to his DVLA inspection so he was forced to hire a trailer.

This advice conflicts with my own experience with the same DVLA office (Chelmsford) They told me to bring evidence of insurance and DRIVE the car to the inspection.

Logically you would think that the car should be trailered to SVA and then driven to DVLA having passed all the safety checks.

All this red tape is very confusing - it seems that even the Plod don't really understand it either. It makes you wonder what could have happened in the unfortunate event of an accident - would you be covered?

they are insureance companies, they will try there best no matter what to not pay out, so in all likely hood the insureance company wouldent pay out because they can prove you were doing something aganist the law since these laws seem to kinda contradict eachother so no matter what you do your breaking it by driveing the car

[Edited on 11/3/07 by goodall]

I can't remember the exact wording but the reason you can drive to/from SVA and MOT (providing you are insured) is because these are MANDATORY requirements. the DVLA inspecton doesn't fall into the same category.
I was lucky in that I managed to arrange my inspection for the same day s the SVA and was therefore "returning" from the SVA

Peterborough DVLA told me to drive to inspection .

The information in the book is straight from VOSA, confirmed by the tester at Nottingham.

The legislation surrounding all registration issues is incredibly vague.

I wouldn't have wanted anyone to use the book's information, driven to the SVA test and fallen foul of the law, you KNOW you're legal if you trailer it.

As far I'm aware it's legal to drive to the DVLA inspection, with insurance.

Cheers

Chris