You need a Vehicle Inspection Report in order to register an out of province car in British Columbia. Well, if you look on the ICBC web site you can’t find an actual list of the things that are checked. It seems that this list is privileged information. No longer.
Here is the list of checkpoints copied verbatim from my Private Vehicle Inspection Report.
Reason for inspection:
- First time registered in BC
- Notice and order
- Motorcycle
- Rebuilt from salvage
- Other
Has the customer been notified of airbag status? (Y/N)
The list
The following list can be marked as Failed, Repaired after a fail and Passed.
Documentation
- Vehicle identification
Driver’s controls
- Horn
- Mirrors
- Windshield wipers
- Windshield and windows
- Windshield defroster
- Visors
- Interior heaters
- Parking brake
- Power brake operation
- Brake pedal reserve and leakage test
- Steering lash and travel
- Power steering
- Handle bars
- Accelerator pedal
- Transmission/speedo/Odom
Body integrity
- Driver’s seat
- Seat belts
- Motorcycle seat
- Doors
- Physically disabled passenger vehicles
- Reflex reflectors
- Floors
- Bumpers
- Trunk
- Trailer hitch
- Body exterior / protruding metal
- Motorcycle kickstand
- Frame
- Frame structural body
- Unibody
- Unibody structural integrity
- Airbag – driver (rebuilt and new to BC – fail)
- Airbag – passenger (rebuilt and new to BC – fail)
Undercarriage
- Tires
- Tire construction (mixed)
- Wheels/nuts/studs
- Road clearance
- Steering linkage
- Steering column and coupier
- Kingpins
- Ball joints
- Springs and attachments
- Shock absorbers
- Wheel bearings
- Fuel system
- Exhaust system and catalytic converter
Brakes
- Drum brakes
- Disc brakes
- Proportioning valve
- Mechanical components
- Brake lines and hoses
- Master cylinder
Engine compartment
- Hood and safety catch
- Vacuum system
- Power train
- Fuel system
Pressure fuel
- Liquid propane gas
- Compressed natural gas
Lighting/Electrical
- Battery
- Switches
- Visible wiring
- Indicator lights
- Lamps
- Headlight/aim
There are a bunch of check boxes at the bottom of the form:
- Vehicle has been road tested
- Altered / modified
- U-built
- Replicar
- Specialty vehicle
- Amalgamated
- Replikit
I don’t see why this list is so secret that none of the mechanics I talked with could release it. I talked to ICBC and they said they didn’t have a copy of the list, ignoring the fact that they have thousands of copies of the form being processed each day.
#1 by Jay on December 4, 2008 - 3:30 pm
I have been searching for this for months!! I guess I wasn’t typing the right things into google. Thanks, you don’t know how much you’ve helped me with this!
#2 by arly on June 18, 2009 - 7:39 pm
this is great! thanks!
question, tho, for the horn, does it have to work from the original steering column? or can a dash button for the horn, rigged otherwise, be substituted?
i have a ’76 chevy boogie van with a challenging horn. cannot find the ‘short’.
have gotten differing information so wondered if anyone out there knows this.
thanks in advance.
#3 by Ryan on June 23, 2009 - 5:06 pm
Thanks dude, I’ve been looking for this list too. Now if we can only get the online vechical inspection manual without having to read it online at the library! This BC goverment charges for everything!
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