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how can you have enough time to paint the intercooler, but 'didn't have a chance' to make a 5 minute phone call and have it insured in your name? any car I buy or import (and it's quite a few) I ring the insurance company and get the insurance before i leave to go and collect the car. it's easy. takes 5 minutes. and means if I crash it or get carjacked on the way home I am covered before I've even had to shell out a cent. there is no excuse really to go un-insured.

THEY FOUND IT IN ONE PIECE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

April Fools' stopped 10 minutes ago!

Tell me you're not pullin' my leg right?

So what's the whole story from the cops?

Lesson learned (from Richard #21)???

Tez

yea for some stupid reason i was under the impresion that it had to be in my name to insure it.

as for the car, the only thing they took was a shity radio :S no body damage at all

i'll give you another tip. the day before you are due to go get the car. ring an insurance company and get a quote. ask them to send the paper quote out to you. the quote acts as valid insurance from the day it was issued and I believe it's valid for 14 days (it will be stated on the quote). so even if you haven't paid it, in 2 days time your car was stolen, you are covered by that policy as you had intended to take it up within the allowable period.

No insurance, no sympathy.

well thats one way of putting it.....

but your forgetting how majority of people are here......

most people on the skyline thread/forum are MALE......early 20's... with R33 or R32 GTS-t.

can you imagine how much insurance would be? and plus most younger people are on lower paying jobs...

so in a way, you gotta have sympathy dude....

think about it, some poor kid has saved his whole working years to buy the car he really wants....cant afford 6,000$ per anum for insurance.......so they just buy 3rd party property damage.......

and then get their car pinched.... they lost everything in away.

  • 2 weeks later...

Why? Good info in here for others.. Learn from other's experience instead of the hard way..

I have never bought a car without getting at the least a cover note. Can't afford insurance, can't afford the car.

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