Any insurance recommendations?
08-06-2001, 05:42 AM
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Contact details as requested:
Admiral - 0800-600-800
Norwich Union Direct - 0800-092-9561
Tesco Insurance - 0845-300-9900
(go via http://www.tesco.com/finance/motor/motor.htm first for 5% discount, then phone with onscreen ref to get quote as Stook not available on-line)
BellDirect - http://www.belldirect.co.uk
Elephant - http://www.elephant.co.uk
(looks like the same engine as Bell, but came out cheaper for me!)
Alan & Alan - redirected by Admiral
Directline - http://www.directline.com/classes/com/dli/.../directline.jsp
Hope that helps.
rgds
Howard
Admiral - 0800-600-800
Norwich Union Direct - 0800-092-9561
Tesco Insurance - 0845-300-9900
(go via http://www.tesco.com/finance/motor/motor.htm first for 5% discount, then phone with onscreen ref to get quote as Stook not available on-line)
BellDirect - http://www.belldirect.co.uk
Elephant - http://www.elephant.co.uk
(looks like the same engine as Bell, but came out cheaper for me!)
Alan & Alan - redirected by Admiral
Directline - http://www.directline.com/classes/com/dli/.../directline.jsp
Hope that helps.
rgds
Howard
08-09-2001, 01:29 AM
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Peter Simons:
This has been a problem with imports for some time. It's not new. Many insurers wont insure imports at all. I had an imported jap MR2, just a few months old and my then insurers told me they didn't insure imports at all. I played up and asked to speak to a superviser who told me it was a blanket policy due to the heavy cost of shipping non-standard parts from abroad. He quoted left hand drive cars particularly, which in fairness you could understand. I pointed out that to have a blankey policy excluding cars with pretty well identical parts to U.K. cars was ludicrous and bad business but it got me nowhere. Those that do insure you seem to heavily load you for the priviledge. I'm not convinced that there isn't pressure from the motor trade here to discourage imports.
This has been a problem with imports for some time. It's not new. Many insurers wont insure imports at all. I had an imported jap MR2, just a few months old and my then insurers told me they didn't insure imports at all. I played up and asked to speak to a superviser who told me it was a blanket policy due to the heavy cost of shipping non-standard parts from abroad. He quoted left hand drive cars particularly, which in fairness you could understand. I pointed out that to have a blankey policy excluding cars with pretty well identical parts to U.K. cars was ludicrous and bad business but it got me nowhere. Those that do insure you seem to heavily load you for the priviledge. I'm not convinced that there isn't pressure from the motor trade here to discourage imports.
