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Dolmen + Engineers Report

  • 15-03-2010 11:43am
    #1
    nookie
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  • #2
    niloc1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,058 ✭✭✭niloc1951


    First you should get the vehicle recategorised from category N (goods vehicle) to a category M (passenger vehicle), you will need Revenue and Vehicle Registrations at Shannon to be involved in this process. Once this is done the vehicle will then be officially re-classified as a 'motor caravan' and, importantly, be eligible for the motor caravan rate of road tax, motor caravan insurance and will not be subject to a DOE test as the law currently stands. See the thread about DOE for camper vans elsewhere on this site.


  • #3
    peasant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    niloc1951 wrote: »
    First you should get the vehicle recategorised from category N (goods vehicle) to a category M (passenger vehicle), you will need Revenue and Vehicle Registrations at Shannon to be involved in this process. Once this is done the vehicle will then be officially re-classified as a 'motor caravan' and, importantly, be eligible for the motor caravan rate of road tax, motor caravan insurance and will not be subject to a DOE test as the law currently stands. See the thread about DOE for camper vans elsewhere on this site.

    He'll still need an engineers report though ...bacuase that's what he needs for the insurance.

    OP, I don't know anyone in your area, so you'll just have to ring around


  • #4
    niloc1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,058 ✭✭✭niloc1951


    peasant wrote: »
    He'll still need an engineers report though ...bacuase that's what he needs for the insurance.
    Yes, you're right there, it has always been a requirement for home conversions and maybe older imports, but I don't see why his garage requires a roadworthiness cert, I think they must have wires crossed. Any qualified person or garage should furnish an engineers report for payment of the appropriate fee without reference to a valid DOE (RSA Roadworthiness Certificate), they always did before the current nonsensical situation arose last summer.


  • #5
    pandos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭pandos


    niloc1951 wrote: »
    Yes, you're right there, it has always been a requirement for home conversions and maybe older imports, but I don't see why his garage requires a roadworthiness cert, I think they must have wires crossed. Any qualified person or garage should furnish an engineers report for payment of the appropriate fee without reference to a valid DOE (RSA Roadworthiness Certificate), they always did before the current nonsensical situation arose last summer.


    Been there and had that catch 22 situation, resolved by looking up motor engineers and assessors in the golden pages, forget about local garages and doe test centers they cannot see beyond their own noses.


  • #6
    Kenn81
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16 ✭Kenn81


    nookie wrote: »
    Hi

    Looking to pick some of you guys' brains - I've recently converted a Ford Transit and have got to the stage of insuring it with Dolmen. I now have 14 days to get an engineers report done on it - trouble is I gave it to my local garage who told me they wouldn't fill any report until the van had a doe on it. Has anyone else had this experience or could anybody recommend a place to go to get this report filled - I'm in the dublin/kildare region.

    Thanks in advance!

    Dolmen would not give me the 14 days to get everything sorted so I am going to go with Stuarts. Although Dolmen will accept an Engineers report from a SIMI garage Stuarts will only accept the report from a main dealer.


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