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Model specific boards => Golf mk4 => Topic started by: Scott-R on 03 March 2013, 17:17
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Anyone on here running a turbo timer?
used to have a starlet and i liked the idea of the engine cooling down outside after a wee run, without having to sit in it ha
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Simple answer - dont
Just drive the last mile or so off boost / slowly will do the same job and you wont look like a tit :tongue:
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+look at your insurance. 99%sure its voided if car is running while your not there.
also iirc its illegal to have a car running with no driver in? (Although you will be unlucky to get donr for thay)
As above. just drive the last mile off boost. or as little boost as possible.
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Not only is insurance void etc, like said above. But in the golf it is a PITA to fit there is a guide on Vortex to do it; but I'm fairly sure that as soon as the alarm is armed the engine would cut off in normal circumstances. It can be done with the addition of an extra circuit board. But once this is installed it means your car is essentially sitting there running without being able to be locked.
Nice and safe.
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A turbo timer won't void your insurance, however they will increase your premium.. A lot. As I don't think your insurance take lightly the fact that your car is still running in your absence.
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it does void most insurance polcies i had in look into doing it spoke to quite alot of people and got the same reply that it voids it. so if you know a company does insures your car and it doesnt void the insurance witha turbo timer you mgiht aswell share thsi company as i know people will wanna know?
and also+1 drive last mile off boost lets it cool down while your in much safer and defo dont look like a tit
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why dont you tell us the ones that dont?
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all generic insurance compaines i.e admiral, direct line etc etc
so who is it? this a genuine question not a dig
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so who is what? If it voids your insurance then why do so many of the Jap boys run these?
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Who is the insurance company that's just increases your premium if you have a turbo timer? And also have you considered the fact they might not have told there insurance
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Well how can an your insurance void it if they don't know? :evil: :grin:
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I wouldn't have been telling my insurance but after a fair look online I won't be fitting one, although I do keep my car running outside my house ha
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+look at your insurance. 99%sure its voided if car is running while your not there.
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also iirc its illegal to have a car running with no driver in? (Although you will be unlucky to get donr for thay)
As above. just drive the last mile off boost. or as little boost as possible.
dont think my insurance bothered as it was built in to my clifford alarm an pc plod couldnt say much either :smug:
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+look at your insurance. 99%sure its voided if car is running while your not there.
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also iirc its illegal to have a car running with no driver in? (Although you will be unlucky to get donr for thay)
As above. just drive the last mile off boost. or as little boost as possible.
dont think my insurance bothered as it was built in to my clifford alarm an pc plod couldnt say much either :smug:
This makes sense I can believe this
Well how can an your insurance void it if they don't know? :evil: :grin:
Right are you gonna stop avoiding the question and answer what the insurance company is?
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what insurance company? what are you on about?
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A turbo timer won't void your insurance, however they will increase your premium.. A lot. As I don't think your insurance take lightly the fact that your car is still running in your absence.
this was a post by you syaing they will just increase your premium i am asking what insurance company it is now stop being a douche and answer the question :evil: :tongue:
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Are you even reading my post you douche, i said THEY... Meaning a non singular use (lots of companies WOULD increase your premium NOT void it, sorry i can't name every single one) , Barrym381 has just proved you wrong saying it didn't void his insurance as it was built in.
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this was about a specific turbo timer not built into a thatcham alarm all i asked was the name of the insurance company. your the one who avoid the question everytime i asked you directly you came back with a smart ass answer. you asked me what insuarnce compaines would void so i told you but seriously if you dont know the names of the compaines jsut say in first the place when your asked directly
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a turbo timer is a turbo timer no matter if its built in or not and no smart ass answers here mate. What were you expecting me to do? Ring every insurance company up to find out who don't void your insurance with a turbo timer?
sorry to the op for messing up this thread.
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again+1 on the apology.
i only asked for one insurance company cause i know some people do would wanna know right so anyway lets jsut burry this here and leave it at that deal?
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Even if its built into the alarm/immob youle proberbly find in the T+C that if you leave the car running with you not in it will void your insurance. meaning that it still voids your insurance unless you sit in the car. therefore meaning you may aswell not have the timer and just sit in the car to let it cool/drive last mile off boost.
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Complete waste of time, drive the last mile or so off boost, it was all I ever did.
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Even if its built into the alarm/immob youle proberbly find in the T+C that if you leave the car running with you not in it will void your insurance. meaning that it still voids your insurance unless you sit in the car. therefore meaning you may aswell not have the timer and just sit in the car to let it cool/drive last mile off boost.
mine would also lock the car so cant see a prob there :smiley:
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Even if its built into the alarm/immob youle proberbly find in the T+C that if you leave the car running with you not in it will void your insurance. meaning that it still voids your insurance unless you sit in the car. therefore meaning you may aswell not have the timer and just sit in the car to let it cool/drive last mile off boost.
mine would also lock the car so cant see a prob there :smiley:
doesent matter, if it says in the insurance companies T+Cs that your insurance is void if the engine is left running without a driver in the car, then the insurance is void weather or not the door is locked. any turbo timer you can turn the egnition off, get out of the car and lock it and the engine will still be running for 1 min or so untill the engine cools but still will void 99% of insurance policies.
i know what your saying, and that even if they smashed the window, got in and drove off they would proberbly only get a few hundred metres, but that few hundred metres could be them onto the back of a tow truck they have waiting and then there away no need for the engine to be running, and i know that if yours is built into the alarm/imob then theres proberbly a cut off switch that if the car tries to be driven when the timer is on it will cut the engine/sound the alarm ect.
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Even if its built into the alarm/immob youle proberbly find in the T+C that if you leave the car running with you not in it will void your insurance. meaning that it still voids your insurance unless you sit in the car. therefore meaning you may aswell not have the timer and just sit in the car to let it cool/drive last mile off boost.
mine would also lock the car so cant see a prob there :smiley:
doesent matter, if it says in the insurance companies T+Cs that your insurance is void if the engine is left running without a driver in the car, then the insurance is void weather or not the door is locked. any turbo timer you can turn the egnition off, get out of the car and lock it and the engine will still be running for 1 min or so untill the engine cools but still will void 99% of insurance policies.
i know what your saying, and that even if they smashed the window, got in and drove off they would proberbly only get a few hundred metres, but that few hundred metres could be them onto the back of a tow truck they have waiting and then there away no need for the engine to be running, and i know that if yours is built into the alarm/imob then theres proberbly a cut off switch that if the car tries to be driven when the timer is on it will cut the engine/sound the alarm ect.
not 100% on what the insurance company would say but they know the alarm has this feature built in so presume they will know you would use it,same as the remote start it had but the steering lock would still be on even if any1 tried to drive it away :smiley: