DVLA Vehicle Registration - Test by SGS

Mirrors are not a requirement for the MOT but a reflector is. I'll do a bit of digging. Did you get a dating letter from the club?

It sounds like you may have gone down the rebuilt vehicle route rather than the reconstructed vehicle, unless you are just unlucky? https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-registration/reconstructed-classic-vehicles

Hi Dennis, you must just be unlucky then, they do inspect a few at random, but the manual is all about the sva, I think your inspection will be to verify engine and frame numbers and that it is genuine and being registered from a purchased log book on eBay! What does your letter say?

Thats certainly what we used to do when I worked in a VRO before they closed them all.

Ive got a Navi and a M50 that will be following this process so Iâm interested how it goes!

Dan

I have registered 8 Velosolex autocycles which came from France. These had never been registered in the UK so I had to do NOVA (required for imported vehicles) and get a club Dating Certificate before applying to the DVLA for an age related reg number.

Six of these had to be inspected by SGS. All they did was take a few photos - engine number, frame number, 2 general views and a view of the handlebars - where the speedo would be if they had one!

As I remember, the letter from the DVLA telling me that they would need to be inspected said the vehicle had to be 'complete'. For one of the inspections, I loosely assembled the parts to make it appear complete, though the engine wasn't properly attached, no brake cables and missing other small parts.

The chat about these unusual bikes took longer than the 'inspection'!

Admittedly these are a little older (mine are 1945-1965) and less sophisticated than your Norton, but from my experience, you don't need to worry.

No question of riding or even starting the machines. The guys who inspected mine look at all sorts of vehicles and were not bike experts.

Dennis

I agree fully with what Tom says. Don't worry about it too much. I had a Model18 inspected by SGS earlier this year and it just had to supposedly be in a condition in which it was capable of being started and ridden, i.e. I had progressed the rebuild to the point at which it was mostly finished.

When inspected it had no fuel or oil in it, he was not interested in turning on any lights and it was most definitely not an MOT inspection. He would not have been bothered if there were missing cables, or any other non-functioning parts.

Talking to the inspector it was clear that they are only interested in looking for fraud, mainly involving numbers being swapped between different vehicles. If your numbers are all as declared, and the NOC inspector will have verified that before you got a NOC certificate, then the SGS process is straightforward.

Previously norman_lorton wrote:

Dennis

I agree fully with what Tom says. Don't worry about it too much. I had a Model18 inspected by SGS earlier this year and it just had to supposedly be in a condition in which it was capable of being started and ridden, i.e. I had progressed the rebuild to the point at which it was mostly finished.

When inspected it had no fuel or oil in it, he was not interested in turning on any lights and it was most definitely not an MOT inspection. He would not have been bothered if there were missing cables, or any other non-functioning parts.

Talking to the inspector it was clear that they are only interested in looking for fraud, mainly involving numbers being swapped between different vehicles. If your numbers are all as declared, and the NOC inspector will have verified that before you got a NOC certificate, then the SGS process is straightforward.

My model 18 was inspected by SGS in my hall. All that they checked was to see that the frame and engine numbers submitted matched those on the bike. I did not have to start the bike.

Tim

I had the check done before SGS started doing them at a DVLA workshop, they only checked that the stamped numbers matched the paperwork.