It's insurance renewal time so I did the sensible thing by looking at different quotes. My existing insurance is through a broker Higos with Markerstudy policy. Excellent customer service over several years and club discount. Having escaped to IoW, my mileage is less than half what it was, maybe 5,000m with some small business mileage. The traditional classic type firms: Lancaster, Lynbrook, Footman James don't offer business miles. Lynbrook need you to have a classic with them before you can have normal as well.

 

But to my surprise, both Direct Line and Aviva now have no problem with insuring Japanese imports - mine is stock with no mods but it looks as if they would take a mod or two. They both said that if their system recognises your reg number (as it did with mine), they'll do cover. Mine popped up as a 2 door saloon manual so I rang up and said, no actually its a 3 door hatchback, coupe, auto and they amended accordingly. Being pedantic, I asked about Japanese import, they checked and it's OK and put a note on the record. And if you ask nicely, they'll even put it on the schedule so there can't be any issue in future.

 

Bottom line is it's halved my comprehensive insurance for my daily driver Z to below £200.

 

Here endeth the insurance report for today. Drive safe, keep it shiny side up.

Good info for us Mike. Thanks for sharing :thumbup1:

Good info for us Mike. Thanks for sharing :thumbup1:

 

Seconded.....

 

…..And great so see you last month mate!

 

Richard:thumbup:

Hi,

It is certainly fair easier to insure a Japanese imported vehicle nowadays compared to when the first cars started to come into the UK in the late 90's. Most models are available on insurers data bases now.

Regards,

Dan.