Discovery 5 Commercial Rear Seats

[Pedrod316]

Has anyone retro fitted rear seats in the new discovery 5 commercial ? 

[rovers90]

A pet hate of mine - putting seats in a commercial because then it isnt a commercial anymore! If you want seats in the back, just buy a normal version. I think if you buy a commercial and put seats in, you have to pay tax on it if it is within a certain time frame.

[Stihl123]

15 minutes ago, rovers90 said:

A pet hate of mine - putting seats in a commercial because then it isnt a commercial anymore! If you want seats in the back, just buy a normal version. I think if you buy a commercial and put seats in, you have to pay tax on it if it is within a certain time frame.

If its a just bench seat in the back its still a commercial 

[rovers90]

1 minute ago, Stihl123 said:

If its a just bench seat in the back its still a commercial 

You missed my point - if you want a vehicle with a rear seat then just buy one like that. 

[Stihl123]

2 minutes ago, rovers90 said:

You missed my point - if you want a vehicle with a rear seat then just buy one like that. 

Yeh but if u want a disco for work, buy as commercial, put the seats in it and u have a 5 seater that's saving u a pretty penny in tax 

[rovers90]

Ah right, so it's a tax avoidance scheme!

 

And do you tell your insurance company that you have modified the vehicle???

[Stihl123]

8 minutes ago, rovers90 said:

Ah right, so it's a tax avoidance scheme!

 

And do you tell your insurance company that you have modified the vehicle???

Yup! 

Best to let em know, just in the unfortunate case something was to happen 

[Stihllymok]

Good luck with that...HMRC are fully on to it. Avoid.

[difflock]

And yet, when I fitted seat rails from a VW Sharan, so that I could use the 2 otherwise unused seats from the Ford Galaxy, into OUR Steyr Puch Van, I took it down to the DVLA in Coleraine and "fessed up" a woman came out, looked at it in the car park, and happliy taxed it a PLG.

But that was 15+ years ago.

[doobin]

Is the commercial tax less then??? I know I pay a damn sight more vehicle tax on my 1.3 scores van than I would on a car with the same engine!