Discussion about MX5s, Roadsters & Miatas, not directly fitting into one of the categories below. Please keep it on topic.
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warrior
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by warrior » Wed Oct 30, 2013 3:24 pm
Fair enough Chris.
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by Snapfrozen » Wed Oct 30, 2013 4:54 pm
NicF wrote:On a slightly related topic, has anyone had insurance increased because they put in a roll bar? I queried my insurance provider and they said that premiums would go up because having a roll bar indicates more risky driving. So do insurance companies differentiate between a roll bar and a style bar? Style bars were offered as an option on the new cars, I bet the premiums don't go up because a STYLE bar is fitted.
More than likely if you gave them a price of the modification they will increase your sum insured meaning the premium goes up. Or they may take a % loading on there depending on the modification threshold. Most insurer's wouldn't know the difference between a style bar and roll bar
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by harlansmart » Wed Oct 30, 2013 9:07 pm
its all good ha ha
probably, as your ride becomes safer for its occupants premiums rise... because doesn't adding cages & modifying seating, belts & so on make a car more costly to insure?
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by SLYDIT » Wed Oct 30, 2013 9:16 pm
so driving a car with airbags and ABS and stability control puts your premiums up because they promote riskier driving too??
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chris
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by chris » Wed Oct 30, 2013 11:06 pm
Insurance companies are fucking wankers.
So are police.
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by MrGrey » Wed Oct 30, 2013 11:13 pm
Insurance companies are insidious parasites
fixed that for you
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by siren676 » Wed Oct 30, 2013 11:18 pm
who do you work for again Chris
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authentic
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by authentic » Wed Oct 30, 2013 11:24 pm
chris wrote:Insurance companies are fucking wankers.
So are police.
The people who make the decisions are, not the organisations as a whole.
The police just do as they are told, and make decisions based on the extent of their training. They have to put up with a lot of shit other than just pulling us over because our cars are too low or too loud etc.
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by Angreal » Thu Oct 31, 2013 8:07 am
I wonder if an unmodified Arial atom would cost less to insure than say a v8 mx5... The modifications surely represent riskier driving than the go kart right?
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by chris » Thu Oct 31, 2013 8:45 am
siren676 wrote: who do you work for again Chris
Haha oh yeah.
I was pulled over three times over the weekend.
Zero tickets.
Brilliant use of tax payer money IMO.
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by MrGrey » Thu Oct 31, 2013 8:49 am
why do they keep pulling you over? are the cops that bad in auckland?
I don't get hassled up here in whangarei.....
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by chris » Thu Oct 31, 2013 9:17 am
Modified car - better tax him!
Oh, we can't find anything to get him on.
Except his legal seats.
I'll waste his time instead.
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by Angreal » Thu Oct 31, 2013 1:26 pm
chris wrote:Modified car - better tax him!
Oh, we can't find anything to get him on.
Except his legal seats.
I'll waste his time instead.
I dunno... My car is more modified and yet I never get pulled over unless I'm overtaking another vehicle in front of a cop. More subtle mods?
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