For those who haven't seen it, here's the rationale info sheet regarding structural inspections:
http://www.cvse.ca/vehicle_inspections/PDF/Structural_Integrity_Process_Guideline.pdfClearly, it's intended for "rebuilt", "irreparable", "salvage" and "modified" OEM vehicles that have been crashed & written off (under those circumstances, completely understandable IMHO), but it certainly shouldn't apply to our cars which are none of the above. It's concerning because it basically requires that you produce a complete, running car, with no paint etc. on any of the frame, for inspection
Meanwhile, the form itself (to be filled out by the inspector) refers almost exclusively to wheel alignment:
http://www.cvse.ca/vehicle_inspections/PDF/CVSE0032-Fillable-Structural_Integrity_Declaration_Report.pdfCommon sense would dictate that our cars are not applicable to the process (as wheel alignment is already covered in the standard vehicle inspection anyway).
If this a newly-added requirement, it's clearly been added by some bureaucratic pundit who can't distinguish between the above vehicle categories and our vehicles.
Ours should, for the most part, be considered one of three types (under new-VIN BC rules):
"Repli-kits", vehicles intended to resemble a previously made model of vehicle, and are constructed of both new and refurbished parts (those of us building 7 replicas SHOULD fall under this category) and
NOT built from a kit;
"Repli-Cars" are those made to resemble a previously made model of vehicle, nade entirely of new components (i.e., a true "kit car", purchased & assembled by the owner (with no owner-fabrciated parts), and;
"Ubilt", which are cars made from new and refurbished components, where the car does NOT resemble any car ever made previously.
Strangely, a lot of the Locosts built in BC have ended up having to be classed as "Ubilt". They most assuredly do not fit into that category by its very definition, and should (IMHO) be classed as "Repli-Kits" (only by definition, and certainly not by the name of the class).
So...the structural integrity testing applies to previously totalled, OEM-built vehicles, with already-existing VIN numbers. I am at a complete loss as to how that could possibly apply to us. Such are the inequities of the BC vehicle licensing and inspections process
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