ayjay, I'd love to live in UK, save up £450 and fairly spend it for an honest expert approval. But registering a self-build in Lithuania would require:
- structural calculations of the chassis and suspension
- description of welding procedures approved prior to building
- brake test meeting type approval requirements
- steering test meeting type approval requirements
- certificates of tests of seatbelt mount points
- in addition to most of the requrements you are facing during the IVA procedure
Not going into too much detail, not all of these things can be done in our country, and the approximate cost of all of this is comparable to the cost of the build itself. I imagine the tazzy's situation is similar. Thus we are forced looking into shady things, the least shady one being having someone in a country where there is a working process for registering self-builds present it as their own and get it road legal. Then EU laws kick in, a car that was road legal in an EU country cannot be denied registration in another.
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