Alex
Nordschleife
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Someone commented on me having 295 tyres on the rear on my 996 (with 10" rims) asking if I'd notified the Insurance.
The car's been fitted with those for over 4 years and 40k miles according to the receipts so I never gave it a thought about being 'modified'.
I'm due renewal on my Insurance next month so have been doing the searches for price comparison.
Anyway, tonight I thought I'd get some quotes with wider tyres on. Seems most companies won't quote on the comparison sites and the ones that do are a lot higher.
Point I'm getting at though is how many mods have you done to your car (or have previously been done) that your Insurance don't know about?
I looked at the list on the sites and here are a few examples:
Wider tyres
Wheel spacers
Suspension modifications
Exhaust modification (I'm guessing stainless sports manifolds & Gundo hacks)
Chipped
Air filter
Alloy wheels that were an optional extra
Go faster stripes
Upgraded ICE
Tinted windows
Car phone
Sports steering wheel
Braided brake hoses
Non standard respray
Pretty scary if they tried using these things against you and you're not prepared to put up a fight.
The car's been fitted with those for over 4 years and 40k miles according to the receipts so I never gave it a thought about being 'modified'.
I'm due renewal on my Insurance next month so have been doing the searches for price comparison.
Anyway, tonight I thought I'd get some quotes with wider tyres on. Seems most companies won't quote on the comparison sites and the ones that do are a lot higher.
Point I'm getting at though is how many mods have you done to your car (or have previously been done) that your Insurance don't know about?
I looked at the list on the sites and here are a few examples:
Wider tyres
Wheel spacers
Suspension modifications
Exhaust modification (I'm guessing stainless sports manifolds & Gundo hacks)
Chipped
Air filter
Alloy wheels that were an optional extra
Go faster stripes
Upgraded ICE
Tinted windows
Car phone
Sports steering wheel
Braided brake hoses
Non standard respray
Pretty scary if they tried using these things against you and you're not prepared to put up a fight.