There is proposed legal change to being able to modify cars in certain ways. The legalities have yet to be ratified but it will restrict the ways that vehicles can be modified, similar to exiting legislation in Germany, Sweden, Denmark, France et al. Current proposal does not restrict changing a chassis. I sense Craddocks are talking utter Craddocks, similar to their customer service.
There are far too many historic vehicles of great importance, let alone value, that have separate body to chassis and when these need replacing to retain vehicle existence, ala, a £25M 250 GTO, the chassis is changed.
The legislative changes ares still at proposal stage and are environmentally driven to stop owner tampering that may 1. increase vehicle pollution, and 2. lower vehicle safety standards [and judging by some of the modified Land Rovers out there the legislation will be a welcome change].
Importantly, read the highlighted text below...
https://www.gov.uk/government/consu...ernising-vehicle-standards#tackling-tampering
>>Tackling tampering
We will create new offences for tampering with a system, part or component of a vehicle intended or adapted to be used on a road. This will enable us to address existing gaps in the legislation, ensuring cleaner and safer vehicles. We will also create new offences for tampering with non-road mobile machinery (NRMM) and for advertising ‘tampering’ services or products.
This will strengthen our ability to enforce compliance in this area.
We are aware that the Law Commissions in both their first and third consultations on automated vehicles have considered tampering. We await their final recommendations and would welcome views on our proposals, as follows.
Specifically, we would look to create:
- a specific offence for supplying, installing and/or advertising, a ‘tampering product’ for a vehicle or NRMM – this would apply where a principal effect of the product is to bypass, defeat, reduce the effectiveness of or render inoperative a system, part or component (the product may be a physical part or component, hardware and/or software)
- a specific offence for removing, reducing the effectiveness of, or rendering inoperative a system, part or component for a vehicle/NRMM and advertising such services
- a specific offence for allowing for use or providing a vehicle or NRMM that has had the operations described in the previous 2 points performed on it
- a new power to require economic operators to provide information, where a service/product they have supplied amounts to or enables ‘tampering’ with a vehicle or NRMM – this would apply in any of the above senses and include requirements to provide relevant information on the quantities of products sold or modified
We would like to emphasise that our policy intention is to prevent modifications that have a negative impact on road safety, vehicle security and the environment.
We do not intend our proposals to:
- prevent legitimate motorsport activities
- prevent restoration, repairs or legitimate improvements to vehicles, such as classic cars or motorbikes
- negatively impact businesses involved in these activities<<
