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Daisy

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Daisy · Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 8:32 Post subject:

Well, I took a deep breath and said a few choice words, and we're still not there. I have been too busy over the past couple of months to sort out the extra very technical details the DREAL requested, which seemed to imply that I was the constructer of the trailer and therefore would have technical diagrams and calculations. To be honest I ran out of steam as well... Anyway we have managed to obtain a Certificate of Conformity ( Whooppeeeee!!!) from Blue line, I got ready to send it all off to the DREAL , and then checked the weights on the CoC. They now say the trailer weighs nearly 400kgs - yes that's four HUNDRED kilos Shocked

more on the COc than on any other paperwork, including their current sales literature.....996kgs as against 600 Shocked

. so I may just have to start again. I still can't find a weighbridge near here. I have sent off loads more pictures and the CoC, and have my fingers crossed.

Be aware that if you buy a blueline trailer, the empty weight is pure fiction. Rolling Eyes

Daisy · Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 17:41 Post subject:

Had our DRIRE ( DREAL ) inspection today - and she failed Evil or Very Mad

There's no conformity number sticker or plate on the chassis A section, and Blue line can't furnish one .. yet .... ( maybe by Christmas Rolling Eyes

) .. According to the man at the DREAL it is not correctly made to EEC regulations, yet others in other departments have managed it... Confused

So - we have nearly £3000 worth of kit that we can't use or register until someone comes up with an idea. We can't sell it either here, and we're 800 miles from UK to sell it there.
To say we're fed up and absolutely furiously livid is an understatement Evil or Very Mad

Richie · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 21:14 Post subject:

If a UK registered company, and they had not declared it was not to EU conformity, then you have a case, and Citizens Advice isn't 800 miles away, it's here www.adviceguide.org.uk and do email enquiries.

Richie · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 21:16 Post subject:

If a UK registered company, and they had not declared it was not to EU conformity, then you have a case, and Citizens Advice isn't 800 miles away, it's here www.adviceguide.org.uk and do email enquiries.

p.s. At the motorsport team I did some work for, we had this with our trailers, all we did, was copied all the details from a known trailer, and had a plate engraved, job done

Daisy · Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 21:39 Post subject:

Thanks Richie .. the guy says he's going to speak to someone at indespension tomorrow - may come up with something - perhaps. I'm preparing for a worst case scenario.

Re the other - I had considered that, I also want to find out how this construction differs from French built trailers .. I don't think it's a case of anti anglais, but I want to find out if I can - if they're built the same I want to know why it's OK for France but not UK. Wink

Daisy · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2011 11:12 Post subject:

Well, we've waited very patiently, and today I think I have the right number at last - they said the drawbar passed the inspection without any modifications Wink

... it remains to be seen if it's acceptable... We're hoping to be able to get an inspection for the caravan and the other Paj and take the box trailer all at the same time. Perhaps.

I've been looking at lots of French trailers, and there are still many that have been made exactly the same way. Thing is in France they get round the registration problem by making twin axle unbraked trailers that could carry a whole lot more than 750kg ( 2x1000kg axles ) and then put 500kg all up weight on the plate so they don't have to register it. Fine I guess - until you're A/ stopped by the gendarmes and they go and weigh the laden trailer, or B/ you have an accident.. Rolling Eyes

Daisy · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 7:34 Post subject:

Still not there ...

Daisy · Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2012 7:31 Post subject:

Got the drawbar calculations, so there's a chance we may be in business?

Daisy · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 21:25 Post subject:

Finally picked up the registration today. Thanks eventually to Blue line who put me in touch with the people doing their homologation in Holland, who supplied the calculations for the drawbar, and my DIY skills fitting a second number plate light and engraving details on the constructors plate and buying a trailer tare weight sticky label in french, also fitting the anti cyclist protection bars, and then of course we had to get it weighed in France as well.. wow I'm going to miss this so much.. Wink

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