Removing wheelchair ramp from car?

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Bit of an odd question, but I can' find an answer anywhere. Has anyone ever removed a wheelchair ramp from a Motability car or similar? How do I find a person to do this - would it be a mechanic, or an auto electrician or something else entirely?

I need to buy a small van and for various reasons it's likely to be one of these. If anyone has gone through similar I'd love to hear from you.

I'm guessing the deafening silence is because nobody has done this before, and there are probably good reasons why. I do know from experience (admittedly outside the UK) that installing a ramp is a fairly simple bit of coach-work - cutting metal, fashioning new bits of metal to replace it, and so on. For a coachbuilder (the type of company that converts limos into hearses, for example) it's run of the mill stuff.

Where it gets complicated is getting the work certified for road-worthiness etc. I had to jump through a lot of hoops abroad; I'm not sure what is required here but I wouldn't want to voluntarily go through it just to restore a vehicle to the same state as hundreds or thousands of other identical vehicles on the road.

If you were clearer about the "various reasons" it might shed some light. Otherwise, I'd just buy an unmodified van.

Thanks other.

I'm guessing the deafening silence is because nobody has done this before, and there are probably good reasons why.

Yes, I reached the same conclusion.

In the end (for the benefit of anyone stumbles across this discussion in future) I bought one, but lightly modified - different seat configuration, dropped floor and a manual ramp, because these are all things that haven't affected how the car was registered with the DVLA and which can be undone/removed easily. (Some more heavily modified ones have been rewired, for example, or have electric winch systems in place.) All good so far.

Hi there, I've just bought at Peugeot expert with lowered floor and ramp. Did you convert your back after?

Hi I have also just brought one of these, after removing the ramp what did you do about the insurance? Currently insured as a wheelchair access vehicle which is really expensive, did you tell the insurance company it had been removed and they reduce the premiums?