PeterW
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 posted on 15/11/06 at 03:59 PM |
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When does an aeroscreen become a windscreen...?
OK
Whats the legal definition of an aeroscreen...?
How tall does it have to be before the SVA requires it to have windscreen wipers and demister etc...?
Cheers
Peter
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smart51
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| posted on 15/11/06 at 04:02 PM |
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It's to do with the height with respect to the seat. I don't know the exact details but they have a rig that they put in your seat at
SVA. It adjusts to the back rest angle. They have an "average eye level" thing and the windsreen / aeroscreen height is set relative to
that.
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iank
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| posted on 15/11/06 at 04:21 PM |
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It might be easier to install the aeroscreen post SVA if you are worried it's too tall.
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Peteff
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| posted on 15/11/06 at 04:22 PM |
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Simple rule.
When you have to look through it not over it.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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BenB
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| posted on 15/11/06 at 04:40 PM |
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When Mr SVA wakes up in a bad mood 
Actually, looking at the 2004 SVA manual PDF I see that page 64 says re windscreen regs
"All vehicles except:
a. Goods vehicles
b. vehicles not equipped with a windscreen through which the driver must look to obtain a view from his normal seated position, eg
- a fully opening windscreen
- a windscreen, the top edge of which is positioned below a horizontal plane as defined in the annex to this section
The annex defines funky angles and measurements to do with back height. But basically unless you're very tall and the examiner is small, if you
have to look through it, its a windscreen.....
IE- exactly what Peteff said 
Ben
ps You have U2U re SVA manual pdf 
[Edited on 15/11/06 by BenB]
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NeilP
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| posted on 15/11/06 at 09:37 PM |
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It's hidden in the front of the SVA manual...
 
Description
If you pay peanuts...
Mentale, yar? Yar, mentale!
Drive it like you stole it!
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02GF74
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| posted on 16/11/06 at 12:31 PM |
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yep ^^^ that's the one. They have a speacial guage for it, strings, adjuble arms, spirit level thingies - quite complex - the SVA man said it
was about the 2nd time he ever had to use it in the 5 yrs fo testing he did when I took mine for SVA 
And it just passed 
If you think yours is marginal, then remove it. (bit hard to do in my case as it was already fitted oin a mysterious way).
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