Can anyone help or at least shed some light on this subject.
I plan to take the Land Rover on a ferry to Noway(via Denmak) Sweden, Back down towards France and home. This is a fairly easy trip and I thought I had planned for most things, except breakdown cover.
I thought this would be easy enough, but alas, it's far from it.
If you breakdown and need the vehicle repatriated they work this in cost from your vehicles worth (trade as usual!.) This is calculated via Glasses Guide.
Glasses Guide does not even list vehicles such as mine (or any MVs) 1989 TUM 110 Land Rover GS.
So, so far the insurance company see it as a few hundred pounds. I protest on the phone that the vehicle is definately worth more, as I'm sure everyone does on the phone. They also confusingly see it as a 'Y' registered vehicle first registered in 2001, this is when it was cast from MOD service, so now they say they would price it as such, which I don't believe.
I guess that when it says on the V5 - First registered abroad, like all my MV's have, it causes confusion on their insurance databases.
I don't want to get stuck requiring recovery to have my vehicle written off and claimed by the recovery insurance Co.
I would also like the reasurance that I have recovery and that they will understand that it's not just a 1989 Land Rover worth £500 trade, that Ex-Military vehicles command a higher price.
Has anyone gone abroad with an MV? How did you sort the recovery insurance & through what company?
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paul connor
Can anyone help or at least shed some light on this subject.
I plan to take the Land Rover on a ferry to Noway(via Denmak) Sweden, Back down towards France and home. This is a fairly easy trip and I thought I had planned for most things, except breakdown cover.
I thought this would be easy enough, but alas, it's far from it.
If you breakdown and need the vehicle repatriated they work this in cost from your vehicles worth (trade as usual!.) This is calculated via Glasses Guide.
Glasses Guide does not even list vehicles such as mine (or any MVs) 1989 TUM 110 Land Rover GS.
So, so far the insurance company see it as a few hundred pounds. I protest on the phone that the vehicle is definately worth more, as I'm sure everyone does on the phone. They also confusingly see it as a 'Y' registered vehicle first registered in 2001, this is when it was cast from MOD service, so now they say they would price it as such, which I don't believe.
I guess that when it says on the V5 - First registered abroad, like all my MV's have, it causes confusion on their insurance databases.
I don't want to get stuck requiring recovery to have my vehicle written off and claimed by the recovery insurance Co.
I would also like the reasurance that I have recovery and that they will understand that it's not just a 1989 Land Rover worth £500 trade, that Ex-Military vehicles command a higher price.
Has anyone gone abroad with an MV? How did you sort the recovery insurance & through what company?
Many thanks
Paul
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