SVA Guidelines

[emicen]

Does anyone know where I can get a plain and simple guideline of exactly what is required for SVA. I know about the foglight but this fuel filler restrictor - wtf is that?

All i end up with is legal babble from the governments site:
http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_roads/documents/page/dft_roads_505075-02.hcsp

[MattPayne]

fuel neck filler restrictor is a little ring that you fit in the fuel neck, to prevent you from putting a diesel or leaded fuel pump into the car... £25 or so from middlehursts, or for a tenner, you can have mine

there is a guide in the DVLA website somewhere... but worst case... you take the car in... and then just get it re-tested when it fails! (as what happened to me!) talking to others at the SVA centre almost all first timers need themselves a retest!!!

[emicen]

Cheers for that, I'll trawl the DVLA site a bit more.

How much does the actual SVA test cost, all the import places I've seen quote for conversion and test?

[MattPayne]

off the top of my head the SVA itself is £180 or there abouts... my R32 cost me in the region of £100 to convert - speedo converter £60, fuel neck restrictor £25, fog lamp, switch, wire £15
in my time, well 2 trips to the SVA centre, 30 mins fog lamp, 30 mins for the speedo converter, 15 mins fuel neck restrictor.

and a tip for the fuel neck thing... tie sone string to it, and tape it to the side of the car.... saves having to open the fuel tank up nad rooting about to find it when you accidentally let it slip

[emicen]

Cool, well my plan is to split the reverse light circuit and use a fog light bulb in there to create a fog light and wire in the switch to the headlight control, so that'll be cost of headlight bulb + illuminated switch.

Speedo convertion, not sure yet, might not bother seeing as it will pass reading kmh, but i am, investigating the cost of a gearbox (not for a Skyline btw) since mph readout would be nice, as would no speed restriction.

Fuel filler restrictor, was planning on cutting a big washer out of a sheet of aluminium and aralditing it in to the fuel filler neck or on top of whatever is there.

[MattPayne]

my fog lamp now lives in the reversing light... but you will find that the car will fail if you drive it into the SVA centre like that... the reversing lens is the wrong shape, and doesnt have the correct markings on it.... put a dangler on it for the test... (my dangler failed first time round - wasnt at the corrct angle)

The car will also fail with just having KPH on the speedo... it has to have MPH written on the face and read acurately (they will rolling road to test the speed....)

in a 33 the speedo i belive is electronic so when you get the converter gismo, that should de-limit the speedo too...