Today was a long day, i Got up at 5am to make sure i was at Caterham North for 8.30. The plan wsa to collect my car from thier and drive it to the Nottingham VOSA centre for the IVA.
Well I got to caterham on time, and I even got to the IVA centre with half hour to spare. I will say with just the doors on and no heater, an hours drive up the motorway is a cold experience on a chilly day.
Once at the IVA centre i put the car in place and waited for my alloted slot. There are a number of checks, both visual and technical, from checking the finish of the vehile, to setting up lights, checking brakes on Rolling roads and emmisions tests. The IVA guy was extremely helpful, and happy to explain why they do the checks, he helped set up the car's headlights and the only other thing that needed to be altered was teh angle of the catalyser heatsheild (it needed to be less on top of the cat and more around the side and top to stop people catching themselves on the devices.
Well i am happy to say i now have a pass certificate and about 150 miles already on the clock as I drove the car home on the motorway back to Bedford.

I am now looking forward to filling out the V55/4 for registration... if i can figure out how... (there may be a call to Caterham on this as i cannot see any example which should have been in my dopcument pack.... )
Well happy days, and hopefully happy motoring days...

There were a few items missing in the kit for the IVA, and i have had a few little problems which i hope we can sort out at the pst build check stage.
1) rear fog and reversing lights have to have rubber seals, i stuck these on, but could not get the len's back into the lights.. so not sure how to do this.
2) the front grommet for the wiring, i have spent many hours on trying to get this in place, and will ask Caterham if they can do this
3) I have run out of rubber strip for teh friont flares around the wishbone holes.. so i will ask Caterham to do this as by the time the semd me more, i will be taking it to them.
4) there were a couple of peices missing which Caterham will put on for me
there are about 4/5 minor things that need to be completed here, but de to time i will ask midlands to comeplete these little bits ready for the IVA.