We handle the approval work that sits between a finished design and a vehicle that can legally be sold, registered and driven in South Africa.
Almost every vehicle programme that misses its launch date does so for a reason that was known, on paper, months earlier. A variant nobody scoped. A supplier report at the wrong revision. A body specification that drifted between the drawing and the workshop floor.
We work the other way around. The approval route is fixed at design freeze, the evidence is gathered while the vehicle is still being built, and the submission goes in once.
We take a model from technical file to approval: category and scope determination, gap analysis against the applicable compulsory specifications, evidence assembly, submission, and the follow-up correspondence that decides how long the file actually sits.
An LOA is the difference between a consignment that clears and a consignment that sits. We map each part number to the specification that actually governs it, assemble the evidence, and keep the register current as your range changes.
Existing international approvals can remove a great deal of retesting, but only where the scope, variant and revision level genuinely match. We tell you which of your evidence carries across, and what has to be done locally.
Testing is the most expensive thing to repeat. We write the test plan before the first sample is built, book the laboratory, attend the runs, and make sure the report says what the reviewer needs it to say.
Before anything can be registered it has to exist in the system under your name. We handle manufacturer, importer and builder registration and the model code work that follows it.
A locally built body on an imported chassis is one vehicle to the regulator, not two. We set the build specification up front so that what leaves your workshop is the thing that was approved.
Lighting, glazing, braking, tyres, seats, belts, mirrors and the rest of the safety-critical list each carry their own requirements. We keep the register straight so that your catalogue stays sellable.
Most regulatory failures were visible months earlier. We audit what you hold against what you sell, and we tell you when something changes that affects a model already in the market.
We establish what you are actually approving: category, variants, derivatives, and which of them can travel together as one family.
Everything you already hold is measured against what the submission requires. You get a list of what is missing and what it will cost to close.
Tests are booked, witnessed and reviewed. Supplier documents are chased. The technical file is built as the work completes, not afterwards.
The file is lodged and we carry the correspondence. Queries come to us, not to your engineering team.
Model codes and registration data are set up so the first vehicle off the line can actually be sold.
Approvals expire, ranges change and regulations move. We keep the register current and tell you when something needs attention.