IVA for both. No avoiding it.
The car is tested more or less on the same basis no matter if it is built from all new parts or with some from a donor.
I think the only difference in the test procedure is that a car built with a donor engine is emissions tested on the age of the donor engine ie. it has to meet the standards prevailing at the date of engine manufacture. One of the reasons for it having an age related plate.
If I don't go with a donor car, are there any UK based specialist Alfa breakers I can contact to request "the standard Stratos donor parts" from ?
Just making sure I'm not reinventing the wheel in my googling
If you don't go with a donor car, you will not have a vehicle identity to which your donor parts will relate. Therfore you would have to prove the age of the engine (and maybe other parts) to the IVA inspectors. A difficult thing to do.
You may well end up with a Q plate then.
If you are opting to build from all new parts and get a brand new registration then you will have invoices for the engine etc which will have a date on them and may well identify the engine manufacture date or its emissions data.
If you satisfy the inspectors and the registration people you would then get a brand new registration plate just as you would if you buy a Ford from a showroom.
As far as I know you can have one 'reconditioned' component on a brand new car with Respect of IVA. My Alfa engine and box have been rebuild to 'as new' and I have a receipt from the builders plus all the parts receipts to support this. However it may be that the engine and gearbox are seen as 2 parts (I'm pretty sure they are).
It would be a bit bloody minded if they baulked at giving you a new registration by calling an engine and gearbox two components. Is that what you are going for Leigh? New reg?
Plan is for a new reg if I can - or at least one newer than the donor. If I can get it registered as new it opens up a few plates I have an eye on that are newer than my donor car. There may be ways around it - it's all in the wording you use I think.
But it's not the end of the world if I can't get a new one I guess.
To be honest the main thing is to be able to have Euro 2 emissions on the engine. Now way will it pass anything stricter! I think you can do this with an 'as new' engine. As the car is counted as new but only has to meet the emissions for the particular engine you use. Mind you, if I've misunderstood then I might not be able to even consider registering as new.
Last edited by LPH_UK; 03-07-2017 at 23:43.
Yes, that's as I understand it too, that you can test an "as new" engine on the emissions standards relevant to the production date for the engine.
Proving that date without an age related V5 maybe the tricky bit.
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