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just to let you all know!
chunky2772 - 31/10/10 at 09:21 PM

i called in my local iva test center friday to ask the iva tester a few questions on setting my car up ready for the test. he told me the only thing that has to work is the hazards when egnition is off. he also told me the fog lamp can only work when diped and main beam are on! he said most of the cars he tests people have wired the fog to a permanant live so be warned they will fail you for this! he was realy helpfull and said if i had any questions i needed to ask just to call in. he also said my bike engine will have to comply with car emissions as the bike engineis now in a car and is classed as a car engine now so that got me a bit worried.

[Edited on 31/10/10 by chunky2772]

ReMan - 1/11/10 at 08:32 AM

And it started so well.
I'm sure that is twaddle (about the engine)

Which is your "local"?

cd.thomson - 1/11/10 at 08:36 AM

its not twaddle, all engines going through IVA have to go through the CAT/NON-CAT car engine based emissions tests dependent on year.

Bluemoon - 1/11/10 at 09:05 AM

Have a read of the IVA manual it's all in there... Could save ££ in retest fees...

blakep82 - 1/11/10 at 02:44 PM

^ link below

ReMan - 1/11/10 at 05:45 PM

Well that told me!

So having looked through very briefly, where does it reference that a BEC is treated differently and where the source of the engine rather than it's age is is key to the required pass level?

chunky2772 - 1/11/10 at 08:35 PM

my local iva is gosforth newcastle tyne&wear just hope my car can meet the exhaust emish test.

chunky2772 - 1/11/10 at 08:43 PM

my computer wont let me download the iva manual if someone would be kind enough to print it of and send me a copy i will send you some free heatshrink tube look for locost kit car on ebay and youll see what im gona send you! thanks. my email is bigchunky27@yahoo.co.uk

iank - 1/11/10 at 09:26 PM

quote:
Originally posted by ReMan
Well that told me!

So having looked through very briefly, where does it reference that a BEC is treated differently and where the source of the engine rather than it's age is is key to the required pass level?


The point is a BEC is treated no differently to a car engine i.e. it's treated to the same standards as a car engine - which is harder for a BEC since they tend to have high emissions and are noisy simply due to being very highly tuned and reving very high.

cd.thomson - 1/11/10 at 09:29 PM

sorry reman, didnt mean for it to sound like i was having a go - just clarifying what the IVA man said which wasn't entirely clear as you pointed out

ReMan - 1/11/10 at 10:28 PM

No offence taken :-]

THe greater point is that this is no different at all from SVA and emmisions is engine age related

Anyway moving on, this perfectly doable so don't worry