You’re almost certainly ready to buy your first car, or, you want to buy a new car but you don’t really know which model to go for. While doing your second hand car investigation you have almost certainly realized that the Opel Meriva of “companies” are less expensive to buy and appears to be an interesting offer. Nevertheless, these Opel Meriva only have 2 seats and will therefore need a transformation to allow you to enjoy them like a classic car. We are going to see in this content how to convert a 2-seater Opel Meriva into a 5-seater , to do this, first, we will make a summary of the essential key steps to be taken, then, we will see what are the modifications to be made on the car, then in a second step, what are the administrative steps to be taken to finalize the conversion of your Opel Meriva company into a 5-seater.
The main key methods to convert a Opel Meriva 2-seater into a 5-seater
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Here is the list of the main lines to follow if you want to to pass your Opel Meriva company or commercial in 5 places:
- Put in the missing seats and seat belts.
- Obtain the certificate of conformity from the manufacturer
- Take his Opel Meriva to the roadworthiness testing to have the changes confirmed
- To run his car through mine control.
- Inform your insurance company about the change in the car.
Modifications to be made on the car to convert a Opel Meriva 2-seater into a 5-seater
We will so start our content on the transformation of a Opel Meriva 2-seater into a 5-seater with the modifications to be done directly on the car in order to allow it to be accepted as a Opel Meriva 5-seater.
Convert its Opel Meriva to 5 seaters without help
If you want to do a majority of the process yourself, you should know that it will be challenging. In truth, the companies make the transformation of the so-called “company”/commercial Opel Meriva easy only for the manufacturers, here are the motives:
- You will have to obtain a certificate of conformity, which will need a visit to the car by a specialist.
- Buy a complete kit to transform your Opel Meriva into a 5-seater (belts/seats)
- Set up the kit as indicated by the tightening standards (torque)
For all these aspects, it is less difficult to call on an approved repair shop who will undertake these actions in conformity with the manufacturer’s specifications.
If you still want to undertake the conversion of your new Opel Meriva on your own, contact the car breakdowns in your area to find the necessary parts and look for manufacturer information relating to the tightening and fitting of seats and belts.
Have the conversion performed by a specialist
If you want to convert your Opel Meriva 2-seater into a 5-seater at a specialist, you have made the easiest decision. Surely, he will have a much simpler access to the parts catalogue and will be able to deliver you the certificate of conformity and will let you to carry out the following steps without the slightest stress.
The administrative steps that should be taken to convert a Opel Meriva into 5 places
Now that we have been through the first technical steps in the transformation of a Opel Meriva 2-seater into a 5-seater, we will now deal with the administrative step.
The different steps to be executed in order to have one’s Opel Meriva 2 places approved as a 5 places
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You will learn just below, the different steps to follow in order to be ok with the law to drive your Opel Meriva converted into 5 seats..:
- After the changes made on your Opel Meriva, you have one month to make a change of car registration , so it will be crucial to adhere to all the steps as soon as possible.
- You have to bring the car to pass the roadworthiness test , which is compulsory following a change on a vehicle.
- Take the car to the mine so that they can confirm to the change in the number of seats in your Opel Meriva li>
- Search for for a new car registration card at your prefecture
Price of the conversion of a Opel Merivainto 5 places
Finally last part, to give you an idea of the price that the passage of a Opel Meriva 2 seats to 5 seats can generate, it is necessary to know that a kit seats plus installation will cost you at a dealer on average 2500 to 3500 euros and that it is crucial to add to that the technical control, the passage to the mine and the new car registration. So think well before buying your Opel Meriva company or commercial, whether it is financially interesting for you.
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