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31/5/2007 at 7:16pm
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going slightly off the camping and caravaning topic, please could anybody help me as i cannot find info about this anywhere on the net and the DVLA phone number is always engaged.

We wanted to buy/rent a motorhome to travel france in (me and a few mates) but as we're all under 25, nobody wanted to rent to us. so we jumped at the oppertunity to buy a minibus for £600. but..... its hard to get insured as well. and some companies require us to get the D1 liscence!!

to get to the point.... it has 15 seats which is the factor that means we need D1's and a hefty insurance sum. If we remove 7 seats, so that is and 8 seater, will we be able to register the minibus as having 8 seats? and will we be able to drive it without a D1 and get cheaper insurance?

thanks for your time, sam


31/5/2007 at 7:33pm
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HI SAM

all you have to do is remove the required ammount of seats take the miniobus for it,s new mot as an 8 seater then send the v5 to swansea on the ANY CHANGES part of the v5 9 LOG BOOK) SIMPLY STATE IT IS NOW AN 8 SEATER.

You will have the v5 sent back to you showing the alterations.

HOPE THIS HELPS MATE

DEREK



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31/5/2007 at 7:45pm
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absolutely brilliant! i was hoping for a positive answer. i found something on the net that said i have to prove that it will never be used as a minibus again. is this just the official rules that they dont really stick to?

thanks for the info, i wish i lived in a town where every resident was a member of this forum as everyone is so friendly :)


31/5/2007 at 8:42pm
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welll now the road traffic act is a complicated thing to grasp, only because it,s been changed so many times that people can,t get used to changes quick enough.

 

No i am not a member of the police force .

 

just a qualified instructor.

What the mot is saying is that the vehicle is 8 seats when the log book is altered you are agreeing that it is now an 8 seater not a 15 seater the extra space you have accumilated is now for carrying a payload shopping etc.

 

I had no problem with mine at all worse case scenario would be a trip to the local licencing office for a bod to look at it and nod his head in agreeance . Some people just send in the logbook showing the changes and also an accompanying invoice from their local garage showing an ammount to remove the seats and stating the origional seats and the new seating ammount .

but i dont know if the latter works but proof positive of the first working because i have done it , and it,s the honest route to take .



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02/6/2007 at 6:34pm
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my brother in law as just done that with a daf minibus of 19 seats he has six kids  do not remove any seat belts fitted to the seats that are left or u will need a type approved cert < as that's wot he did  >on refit on mot. being a mot tester  i cannot see how the re class works oh well strange people work for vossa and dvla  PS mot purpose u need to fined a class 4 garage with a mot ramp big enough  to ramp it on test mine only takes transit 280 size vans also must be under 3000kg unladen see  Vin plate for information on the weight have fun drive safe  never drink and drive France have a ban on radar detector of any kind sat nav  ones as well  big fine as a mate found out Xmas's last year 2000 pound fine and impounded there van till  they paid

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02/6/2007 at 6:48pm
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sorry  forgot too  say when mot due best to take to a van center let them sort it out  ALSO TWO YEAR MOT IS ON ITS WAY SO VOSSA TELL US GOOD FOR PEOPLE WITH OLDER CARS  BUT MORE STOP CHECKS BY ROAD SIDE AS WELL . DOWNSIDE  and new cars will be first mot after 4 years     so keep your vehicle clean and tidy all lights working tyre legal  less chance of a stop also vehicles found to be faulty will have the mot revoked and a mot test required to go back on the road  have fun road users 

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