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Those of you who’ve converted a panel van, what did you do for insurance? Regular van insurance? or did you do your modifications “to code” for proper campervan insurance?
Not getting the van for a couple of weeks yet but had a quote from a specialist insurer, A-Plan. Told them what it would have and it’ll be insured for the price we’re paying for it. Ended up being £380 for the year.
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Don’t quote me on this as ours isn’t a van or camper converted. Once you’ve converted it the log book needs changing. Especially if you add extra seats or windows. I can’t remember what the categories are.
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It used to be the case but DVLA have pretty much stopped doing this, allowing converted vans to be registered as motorhomes. But since there are specialist insurers it hardly makes any difference to anything. You can still get it changed to van with windows or something and this then means that you can do 70 on a dual carriageway instead of being restricted to 60 but that’s about the only difference there. Makes no odds for tax or anything.
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Yeah was gonna say the same. Don’t worry too much, do your conversion/mods then contact a specialist insurer. I use Brentacre who have been ok for me.
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Cheers lads, will have a look over the next few weeks.
The Swede will do for now:
That shelter will definitely fly away within an hour though.
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Crosses over so many threads
No idea how legit this is. I suppose I could ask Ben at Palace but then it might spoil the tension…
Actual link:
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Crikey that’s loads!
Got to love a pillarless windowed coupe
Lovely rims on that.
That’s a bit of me that
Been eyeing up one of these to rebuild myself. Maybe when I have a bit of spare cash to throw into the money pit
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I definitely feel like I’m lowering the tone in this thread now, but I had the X1 out properly for the first time yesterday. Definitely feels slower off the mark, but once it’s going it’s totally different to the Mazda. 70-80 feels like it happens in about two seconds, and triple figures it feels like an automatic. Wasn’t expecting that and wouldn’t have been keen but it’s really enjoyable. Feels like its glued to the road too, compared to what I’ve been used to.
Cheers for all the help and advice here.
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Had this squished range rover for 3 months and already regretting not getting a fully electric car.
Going to see what the damage is to get out of it.
Too expensive if that’s a polestar 2.
Would get a model 3 with the nicer wheels.
Ah, I’d thought they were probably a similar price to a Range Rover.
