Second Stage of Manufacture
Change the vehicle.
Understand the impact.
Specialist compliance support when a new base vehicle is modified before it is supplied to its first Australian customer.
Base / change / impact
The core question
What changed—and
what must be proven again?
Second-stage compliance is a disciplined assessment of how modifications affect the approved base vehicle and its supporting evidence.
01
Approved base vehicle
First-stage approval, RAV data and existing evidence.
02
Proposed modification
Design changes, interfaces and indirect effects.
03
Completed vehicle
Revised specification and new compliance case.
Impact assessment
Six questions that shape the pathway.
The answers determine which evidence remains valid, what must be updated, and where new technical work is needed.
- Which ADRs remain unaffected?
- Which first-stage evidence can be carried over?
- Which ADRs are directly or indirectly affected?
- What additional testing or calculations are required?
- Has the category, specification or approval scope changed?
- What belongs in the completed vehicle documentation?
Our support
From base approval
to SSM application.
01Base-approval review
02Affected-ADR matrix
03Evidence development
04Vehicle descriptors
05ROVER submission
06Ongoing variations
Next step
Start with the vehicle and the approval pathway.
Share where the project currently sits and we will identify the most useful next action.