Modified vehicles
Do you own a modified vehicle?
If it meets all requirements, it can be registered as a "modified vehicle." Once it's been registered, you can get plates and insurance for it and put it on the road.
What is a modified vehicle?
For registration purposes, a modified vehicle means a motor vehicle of a manufacturer's make:
- whose body, chassis, power train or steering and braking components have been altered by somebody so that the vehicle resembles, but is no longer identical to, the original vehicle; and
- whose gross vehicle weight is 5,000 kilograms or less.
A modified motor vehicle may either be a passenger vehicle or a commercial vehicle.
How do I apply to have my vehicle registered as "modified"?
- Gather together and photocopy your receipts, bills of sale or invoices for the major components of the vehicle.
- Obtain a "passed" Vehicle Inspection Report from a Designated Inspection Facility. (Inspection facilities are listed on the Ministry of Transportation's Commercial Vehicle Safety and Enforcement website.)
- Find out the market value of your motor vehicle.
- Locate an original manufacturers' Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) on the vehicle. The VIN must be clearly visible for sighting by an enforcement officer at the roadside. (A VIN that can only be seen by, for example, crawling under the vehicle to inspect a frame rail is not an acceptable "public" VIN.)
If you can't find an original manufacturers' VIN, please fill out an Application for BC Assigned Vehicle Identification Number form (PDF). (Include a cheque or money order payable to ICBC for $25.)
- Fill out an Application to Register a Modified Motor Vehicle form (PDF).
- Take the completed application(s) and related documents to an Autoplan broker, or mail them to:
ICBC
Vehicle Registration Support
235 - 151 W. Esplanade
North Vancouver, BC V7M 3H9
For more information:
- About modified vehicles, please call: 604-661-6638 (collect calls accepted).
- About licensing or insuring modified vehicles, please call: 604-661-6890 or 1-800-665-8262.
