Jump to content
SAU Community

insurance! advice pls!!


Beeble
 Share

Recommended Posts

hiya guys... as the proud owner of a freshly imported R33 spec II, am shopping around for quotes and getting a wee bit dissillusioned with the high prices coming back down the phone at me :)

could soem of you PLEASE let me know who you use and approx prices - i'm 25 and clean record - either here or mail [email protected]

so far i've heard famous car insurance are quite reasonable, but it's still up around $1600

thanks heaps

Beeb

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Originally posted by Beeble

heard rumours of ppl getting prices around a grand that's all....

:bahaha:

sorry mate ... seriously ... try Famous Car Insurance in Subi ... they seem to be able to sort out some fairly reasonable prices. Also, Suncorp Metway is another one to try.

Good luck! :)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

well we do have a policy with h.b.f as paul at autoworx put us onto them and said they were doing good deals for awhile so we are not complaining. we have been with rac for over 20 years but they didnt want to know about the skyline. so thats my 2 cents worth.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

yeh chrisroi RAC shafted me too... got a quote, got a car, went to take out a policy.. oh, woops. no more imports buddy! dam!

might give hbf another call then.. see if the pleb i get on the phone knows about imports...

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Hey Chris,

Are you the guy that gave everyone my direct number a while ago so they could call me at HBF for quotes.

IF IT WAS (and only if it was) thanks for that, a total of 22 phone calls from hoons with GTR's, silvias, 180sx's who are 23 and mostly younger with at fault accidents and losses of licence etc. what a good day that was

If not then I am still looking for the guy. Either way I probably authorised the cover for your wifes car.

Insurance is very scared of taking risks with imports as there are no age/driver skill restrictions for buying them, especially with the power that most can put out, same goes for V8's ya know. I mean I know excel drivers smash cars all the time, but cos we are a specialised group we get the sh*t end of everything. Its almost hopeless. and worse if you have had a crap history.

HBF do cover imports. so give them a call and tell them that someone else just did one if anyone says we dont do it. If you get too much opposition ask to be put through to James and leave a message for him telling him you want a quote for an import.

DO NOT TELL HIM YOU HEARD IT FROM HERE. If he tells me that I AM GOING TO BE NOT HAPPY JAN.

(we are checking how much interest there is just from the public, not from advertising. )

lata playas and playettes

RiaZ

Link to comment
Share on other sites

cheers RiaZ, will give hbf a call later on and see how i go. maybe will have slightly better luck - will be 26 when the car if fiiiiiiinally registered and i'm sqeaky clean :uh-huh: (well as far as driving record goes anyways!!)

thanks for the input guys

Beeb

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Sorry to inform you guys but I only pay $600 per year for my GTS-t, and it was only $700 when I was under 25. It seems that the insurance companies have one mad recently, but if you had insurance before then its not so bad, just hope I don't have an accident, they'll be waiting for an excuse not to renew at that price.

See'ya:burnout:

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share



  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • A year of slogging through this bearing issue and finally fixed. What a nightmare. The oil pressure increase did not fix the problem. If you would like to read all the details in case you ever run into a similar issue visit my thread on Yellow Bullet. https://www.yellowbullet.com/threads/continuous-rod-bearing-issues.2689569/?post_id=74193031&nested_view=1&sortby=oldest#post-74193031 In the end the rod bearings themselves were the issue. I had switched from ACL (first engine) to King because that was all we could get at the time and I thought nothing of it. Put the ACL's back in after a year of taking the pan off multiple times to change many things. Issue resolved. Can't believe it was just the bearings themselves all along. It has now been about two years since I drove the car on the street or had it at the track. At some point I had installed all solid and spherical bushings in the rear but had never aligned it since it just went on and off the dyno. Alignment was the first thing to do. (Old photo but same concept) Then I took the transmission out and went through it. This was my first gearset install and I've done about 15 since this one and learned a lot and wanted to apply some of these tweaks to mine. The aftermarket shift forks take very well to some modification and I wanted to make that change. Shifts are now super smooth and no having to find the gear. I also recut the 5th and reverse shift sleeves - always wanted to try this and see how well it works. It works very well! No grinds or having to do a second attempt going into reverse and 5th is perfect. Before During After Going back in In rummaging through my spare trans parts box I found the only parts I've ever broke on a stock trans; the 3-4 shift fork - twice!  
    • It also depends on gearbox ratio. Those drag cars running 7s passes aren't doing it on an overdrive gear ratio (probably). 1:1 is "fine", the critical RPM for a 50' single driveshaft in chromemoly is 6900rpm.... ....but when you shift into 5th and use 0:73 or 0:8 it all changes. Do you know their rear diff ratio? etc. That's the stuff that matters with regards to it. Whether it actually matters given your use application is also relevent. You may never get into those scenarios, like most ruined GTR's from Western Sydney don't :p
    • but for how long? would it handle a few laps around SMSP in anger? 
    • And over it. Need to stop it coming through the floor.
    • Is it running the standard ECU? some sort of data log might help understand where timing, AFRs etc are at.  If it is standard ECU something like Nissan Datascan would help
×
×
  • Create New...