People with cut out & plastic/cf/ally boot floors - MOTs?
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I agree on that front - The car has a cage, and feels fucking stuff on the road - I am really not worried about the strength.

TBH, if I was 100% that it'd pass with a bit of paint and bond-o, i'd do it. but it seems like it might take time and £50 and still be in the same position.

Interestingly, I have just dug out the previous MOT fail sheet from last time I tried (mid2009), at a different tester. They actually failed it for having the subframe chopped about, and only advised that the boot floor had been cut.

Is it worth fixing the brake and chucking it in for an MOT there after painting it black?

I asked a mate who is a tester and he said if its rivited a decent amount of times then it should not fail on that. So i geuss ots the tester.

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This has got an Mot for the last 14 years but the cage is a welded in one!

On 5th Sep, 2011 Vegard said:
I stand corrected. You should know

just paint it all the same colour, doubt they wouldn't even notice its not steel.

i think its because a carbon/fibreglass boot floor is only just the centre, but your boot ally plate is much larger if that makes sense?

I'm going to go all TMF......

Why not consider an IVA (or whatever it's called now).

I don't for a minute believe they are required for the kind of modifications we are talking about but, unless someone is trying to preserve a tax free status or just doen't like a "Q" plate so avoids IVAs, there are certain advantages.....

1- VOSA can do f*** all if they pull you, and

2 - much to my surprise when one of my friends bought a kit car that needed one, the IVA gets you three years before an MOT (because it's considered as a new registration).

Just a thought.

I'm seriously considering it even though I don't think it's actually required for the mods I've done.

Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ???

My car is tax free AND I think it's MOTable :)

Good idea for the more random cars though - I almost had to do it for my old Cobra.