Insurance for heavily modified vehicle?

[rumpelstiltskin]

Having a bit of a mare here.Bought a Volvo 240 glt estate that has been converted to a pickup (looks better than it actually sounds ) but im having a bloody nightmare finding someone who will insure such a heavily modified vehicle,anyone know a good company to try?Cheers!

[Zeemax_Mini]

Adrian flux?

[m3jappa]

try pace ward

[knight]

A Plan

[carmonk]

I'm almost certain you'll need an engineer's report no matter who you go with. TBH many have a list (a looong list) of mods but I've never seen anything like that. I've had insurance with Adrian Flux and Greenlight before, so try them (one was OK and the other was unparalleled st, unfortunately I can't recall which was which )

[Ian_sUK]

I'm with Brentacre, they only normally charge for power increasing mods.

[nickj911]

i had a 360 replica based on a mr2 and got an amazingly low quote from footman james who specialise in kitcars.

[snuffle]

How long has the conversion been done for?

IIRC if the Ins Co or DVLA request it to be inspected then there could be problems, as there is no class for pick-up style conversions on monocoque shells.

[rumpelstiltskin]

Done about 5 years ago,its down as a pickup on the v5 so the DVLA must know.

[lordlee]

Would love to see some pics of your car as I just can't picture it in my mind.

[rumpelstiltskin]

lordlee said:

Would love to see some pics of your car as I just can't picture it in my mind.

[voicey]

Did you ask the previous owner who it was insured with?

I would try a kit car specialist.

[pinchmeimdreamin]

nickj911 said:

i had a 360 replica based on a mr2.

I wouldnt go admitting that on here too often

[ZOLLAR]

rumpelstiltskin said:

Not sure if I like the gold wheels, but all in all that is very interesting looking vehicle I like it .

I believe I once saw a picture of black 3 series BMW turned into a pick up thought that looked good too!.

[Choppers]

Actually I really quite like that !! I had a similar problem with my MK2 golf & the only company who would insure mine was found through Greenlight (Adrian Flux couldn't help) & the customer service was pretty good as well.

[rumpelstiltskin]

I bought it for £400,first word that came into my mind when i saw the ad was 'potential'! Two side exit exhausts (can be seen just in front of rear wheel)and there are also two stainless exhausts pointing skywards up behind the cabin!Previous owner must have been a trucker or summit?.The paintwork is a little flakey,thinking bought going with a deep gloss black and powder coating the wheels a bright sparkly silver.This'll probably blend in better with the acres of stainless chequer plate in the rear loading bay area.Car runs great so that's the least of my worries.

[ZOLLAR]

rumpelstiltskin said:

I bought it for £400,first word that came into my mind when i saw the ad was 'potential'! Two side exit exhausts (can be seen just in front of rear wheel)and there are also two stainless exhausts pointing skywards up behind the cabin!Previous owner must have been a trucker or summit?.The paintwork is a little flakey,thinking bought going with a deep gloss black and powder coating the wheels a bright sparkly silver.This'll probably blend in better with the acres of stainless chequer plate in the rear loading bay area.Car runs great so that's the least of my worries.

That seems like a very good bargain for a very unique car!.

[Ash From Flux]

I would have thought we could get a decent quote on that. If you want me to look at a quote you can pm me.

Ash

[seopher]

nickj911 said:

i had a 360 replica based on a mr2 and got an amazingly low quote from footman james who specialise in kitcars.

Sorry, I may have mis-read. Did you just write what I think you did?

[rumpelstiltskin]

I had my quad insured with Adrian Flux,it was on the road for a week and the engine gave up.So they just kept the £127 premium,easy money!Despite promises on the phone that they would keep this policy open incase i got another vehicle.Anyway they went on to give me a qoute that was twice as much as my other car,a rover 75 td.I was then going to pay it up over the year,they gave me the monthly payments,disappeared off the phone,then told me i 'had' to pay it 'not' over the 9 months he had just told me,but only over 4 months as i had recently became unemployed due to a motorcycle accident?I was a motorcycle instructor.Decided not to go ahead with the quote just out of principal.