S197 Mustang SVA, IVA, Importation & Light Conversion Information » IVA Forms & Information http://mustangsva.co.uk A DIY Guide for Mustang S197 2005-2009 Owners for Light Conversion, Shipping and Importation and SVA/IVA Testing Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:03:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Get Individual Vehicle Approval IVA Test Forms Here http://mustangsva.co.uk/2009/04/27/get-individual-vehicle-approval-iva-test-forms-here/ http://mustangsva.co.uk/2009/04/27/get-individual-vehicle-approval-iva-test-forms-here/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:31:10 +0000 Editor http://mustangsva.co.uk/?p=124 As with most things done by the government, the new IVA test (that replaced the SVA test) needs a different form. The old SVA form won’t do. Logic would suggest that knowing for many months that the IVA would replace the SVA test, VOSA web designers would be right on the case with the forms available everywhere for download.

Umm, well no dear reader. No doubt they will be in the coming months, but at the time of writing they are not. I asked the guy I spoke to at VOSA where to find them, and off he went to find out. It turns out that they are currently hiding on the www.transportoffice.gov.uk website in the forms section. Well where else? The Direct.gov website would be too easy right?

Lets’ make it easy for you; they are right here on our servers and you can get them now.

The application form is a MS Word document and you can get it here:

IVA Application Form

The guidance notes are a PDF document and you can get those here:

IVA Guidance Notes

The fees form is also a PDF document and you can get that here:

IVA Fee Schedule

How easy was that? Too easy for the government it seems. 

More on SVA to IVA on this post: New Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) Test Information and Forms.

]]> http://mustangsva.co.uk/2009/04/27/get-individual-vehicle-approval-iva-test-forms-here/feed/ 1 New Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) Test Information and Forms. http://mustangsva.co.uk/2009/04/27/new-individual-vehicle-approval-iva-test-information-and-forms/ http://mustangsva.co.uk/2009/04/27/new-individual-vehicle-approval-iva-test-information-and-forms/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:19:09 +0000 Editor http://mustangsva.co.uk/?p=122 On the 20th March 2009, VOSA swallowed another lump of bureaucracy from Brussels and our old Single Vehicle Approval (SVA) test became the Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA) test.

The Mustang forums have been bereft of information on the topic up to now. Rumours have been circulating about long delays and hiked prices. So, having a car I needed to test, I called up VOSA today and got the information we need.

They tell me that the test itself for our class of car is essentially unchanged, so all the SVA information on this site remains valid for IVA. I will be confirming this without doubt as I have a vehicle to take for a test in May and have just mailed off the new IVA form.

So what else has changed? The fees have increased as one would expect of this grasping government. The fee is £199 now, and a retest – if necessary – is £40.

The chap on the phone told me there were currently no worse delays than normal, which up here in the frozen wastes of Manchester usually run at around three weeks.

The government has made a great job of hiding the forms also. They will no doubt keep moving them, so you can find them on the IVA Forms Page right here.

Old SVA certificates are valid from 18 months from the date of issue in theory, but you cannot use them after October. If you have a car that got an SVA certificate, make sure you use it before October and it wasn’t issued more than 18 months ago.

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