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  1. Squiffy

    DVLA requirements for change to motor caravan

    That is what the lady said to me Gary when I phoned that it had to look like a motorhome at first glance, so with the decals maybe they will pass it, because in all honesty there is not much more you can do to make it more motorhomey. Phil
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    DVLA requirements for change to motor caravan

    Nice conversions though Gary looks really smart.👍
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    DVLA requirements for change to motor caravan

    Well in that case you have been shafted I feel.😕Phil
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    DVLA requirements for change to motor caravan

    Yes but how many did you show them. Phil
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    DVLA requirements for change to motor caravan

    These are the ones I sent I had not even finished the van in the first pictures, and I used it for a month or so before I changed the V5
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    DVLA requirements for change to motor caravan

    It would be interesting if you put up the photos that you sent to the DVLA Gary. Going by the photo you have put up now I think you have been hard done by and the DVLA would have to be bought to book, but as I say interesting to see those that you did send. Phil
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    DVLA requirements for change to motor caravan

    But Nick, when I spoke to DVLA they told me that no criteria had changed and would not change and their web site details haven't changed either, I specifically said that it is on the internet that they were changing the rules and she said "No criteria has changed it is the same criteria " she...
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    DVLA requirements for change to motor caravan

    We have a routine, at night I put the bed down and sort the bedding, whilst the wife does her nightly bathroom act, and in the mornings I go into the bathroom for my morning ablutions and she packs the bed and bedding away, I've designed it to be very easy to put up and dismantle the bed, the...
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    DVLA requirements for change to motor caravan

    As for double fixed bed, in our Ducato if we are on a fairly long holiday we leave the rear day seats set up as the double bed so that we don't have to keep putting it up and down. We like to lounge on the long rear seats reading and watching Tv, when we are on short stays and have the choice of...
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    DVLA Changes to Motorhome Builds 2019

    Where did you hear that Robert, I think someone is pulling your wire.🤭Phil
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    Composting Toilet

    As a matter of interest on that subject in the late 40's and early 50's potatoes from Egypt were imported into Britain, these potatoes were grown in human waste I know this as my father was station in Alexandria with my mother and older brother after the war and their hiring (House) was right...
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    DVLA requirements for change to motor caravan

    I am humbled Phil thank you for your comments, I have always said things as I see them and don't always get things right but I do try to be objective.😕 Phil
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    DVLA requirements for change to motor caravan

    Sorry Nick I meant Alun Cairns was thinking about your post whilst writing mine.🙄
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    DVLA requirements for change to motor caravan

    I've all ready signed it Nick when you posted it, but as you say I had little hope that enough folk would enter to make any difference.I think judging by what the DVLA women said to me today they are going to clamp down on T6 type conversions because they don't look like "Motor caravans"...
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    DVLA requirements for change to motor caravan

    Good luck with that Nick, I had Alun Cairns round to my house with his personal secretary when I complained that Fiat professional were withholding the key code start up (If )the anti theft security lock appeared on my dash board, he was very affable and pleasant and assured me he would...
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    DVLA requirements for change to motor caravan

    It's a good start Dave, crack on. 🤞
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    DVLA requirements for change to motor caravan

    If you feel so strongly about it Dave why don't you start a national petition to get it sorted to your definition and not this ridiculous DVLA definition.
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    DVLA requirements for change to motor caravan

    Yes many a time I've had to explain to crest fallen customers what is good and what is not, how I want to see it and if they indeed go to another MoT station their opinion may be different, I always gave the choice and even showed the relevant customer the special notice if it was relevant to...
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    DVLA requirements for change to motor caravan

    Two things Dave don't lecture me on MoT stations I owned one for twenty years (5219)Was the registration nr. I was the Authorisued examiner and also held an MoT testers certificate I had three testers at my station. I have done thousands and thousands of class 4 and 5 MoT's personally I can...
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    DVLA requirements for change to motor caravan

    This is as I suggested that they have to clamp down on professional converters putting all round privacy glass on their conversions as they don't look like motorhomes, and this is probably why so many salespeople were so evasive when I asked them about this V5 problem, they knew that it had not...
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