A plate is the difference
Type approval is the line between a car and a modified car, and only a handful of firms have crossed it. Three guides on what the paperwork actually covers, who issues it, and who carries the liability when nobody has.
The dossier, not the dyno sheet. Approval is a documentation exercise before it is an engineering one.
Everything in this section
- 01A plate is the difference between a car and a modified carSome tuning houses hold type approval and issue their own vehicle identification, which puts them in a different legal category from an aftermarket fitter.
- 02Type approval: what it means that a tuner is a manufacturerApproval covers emissions, safety and construction as a whole vehicle, and it is expensive enough to explain the shape of the industry.
- 03The warranty questionWho carries the liability after a modification is a contractual matter and it decides what a franchised dealer will touch.
The other three sections