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Offline R32UK

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Re: insurance for modded cars
« Reply #50 on: 26 February 2010, 21:01 »
Woooo HOOoooooo!!!! just got cover with RAC - £550  :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:


Over the moon with that.. seeing as all other quotes were over £2k... bug in the system???? who cares :grin:

that includes remapped and modded wheels also :cool:
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Re: insurance for modded cars
« Reply #51 on: 26 February 2010, 21:13 »
Quote from: R32UK on 26 February 2010, 21:01
Woooo HOOoooooo!!!! just got cover with RAC - £550  :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:


Over the moon with that.. seeing as all other quotes were over £2k... bug in the system???? who cares :grin:

that includes remapped and modded wheels also :cool:

Well done. looks like a good weekend (month even) for you.

Did you find certain companies that didn't want to know (silly quotes) because of the remap?
Which ones? 
I want to go for it .
But.......
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Re: insurance for modded cars
« Reply #52 on: 27 February 2010, 16:26 »
Quote from: GolfTi on 26 February 2010, 21:13

Well done. looks like a good weekend (month even) for you.

Did you find certain companies that didn't want to know (silly quotes) because of the remap?
Which ones? 
I want to go for it .
But.......

Yes.. the key is just to shop around. Lots of insurance companies dont even know what a remap is strangely enough. I used confused.com as a starting point, as they let you declare moddifications to begin with. A good idea is to add a parent to the policy as a named driver as this does bring the premium down also :wink:.

p.s. Dont let a couple of companies not allowing remaps to knock you... there plenty out there where it hardly affects the premium.
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Re: insurance for modded cars
« Reply #53 on: 28 February 2010, 15:37 »
How you getting it so cheap Gilly?  :laugh: Mines up in April, and cheapest i can find is £2,500. That's on the 160ps TSi, I'm 25 with 5 years NCB and I also added a parent onto the policy to try and get it down. I was looking at getting it Revo'd but it's already too expensive to insure
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Re: insurance for modded cars
« Reply #54 on: 28 February 2010, 17:01 »
Quote from: Aidy06 on 28 February 2010, 15:37
How you getting it so cheap Gilly?  :laugh: Mines up in April, and cheapest i can find is £2,500. That's on the 160ps TSi, I'm 25 with 5 years NCB and I also added a parent onto the policy to try and get it down. I was looking at getting it Revo'd but it's already too expensive to insure

Without pee'in on your bonfire further... i have 8 points also :laugh:. tbh mate i dont know how they gave it to me that cheap. Out of 87 insurers only 4 provided me with a quote for some reason or another. 3 of them were £2k+ and the RAC one was £550!!
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Re: insurance for modded cars
« Reply #55 on: 28 February 2010, 17:09 »
Well done.

Insurance is a funny thing, I had a quote of £150 p/a for 1 of my cars but I'd only been driving a little over a year...  :huh:  :laugh: For a 2.0L, 4wd it wasn't a bad quote :evil:
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Re: insurance for modded cars
« Reply #56 on: 28 February 2010, 19:05 »
No need to rub it in is there pal???  :laugh:
I've got no points and still I'm getting expensive quotes back, what's the excess though pal? I did get a quote for £900 but the excess was £3000  :huh:
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Re: insurance for modded cars
« Reply #57 on: 28 February 2010, 19:19 »
Quote from: Aidy06 on 28 February 2010, 19:05
No need to rub it in is there pal???  :laugh:
I've got no points and still I'm getting expensive quotes back, what's the excess though pal? I did get a quote for £900 but the excess was £3000  :huh:


I think it was £250 - £300. cant remember exactly but it wasnt that high. I would defo say try confused as a starting point, then moneysupermarket... and even adrian flux who insure a number of heavily modded drives on this forum (mention the site for discount). Then its all about spending an afternoon on the phones....  :smiley:
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