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huh, thats weird, every insurance co I've been with, direct line, churchill, endsleigh have said I can only drive upto a certain vehicle and only for 'emergancy' usage, like driving someone to hospital.


in theory if the policy says nothing about limits of what cars, and like yours you've obviously phoned them and got a dedicated document with it printed you'll have no police/producer problems.


what company is it again?
 
Alex-R said:
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faster4_tec said:
huh, thats weird, every insurance co I've been with, direct line, churchill, endsleigh have said I can only drive upto a certain vehicle and only for 'emergancy' usage, like driving someone to hospital.


in theory if the policy says nothing about limits of what cars, and like yours you've obviously phoned them and got a dedicated document with it printed you'll have no police/producer problems.


what company is it again?
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My covernote said that too but in another paert of the policy which it also states is where the true answer lies, he needs to read the big section to see the real answer, scan that one in!

Liam
 
If your certificate of insurance says so, we will also cover you, the
policyholder, for your liability to other people while you are driving
any other privately owned motor car which you do not own or
have not hired under a hire-purchase or lease agreement, as long
as:
1 the vehicle is not owned by your employer or hired to them
under a hire-purchase or lease agreement;
2 you currently hold a full European Union (EU) licence;
3 the use of the vehicle is covered on the certificate of
insurance;
4 cover is not provided by any other insurance;
5 you have the owner’s permission to drive the vehicle;
6 the vehicle is in a roadworthy condition; and
7 you still have your vehicle and it has not been damaged
beyond cost-effective repair.
This extension applies while being driven within the territorial
limits and only to private passenger vehicles. It does not include:
* vans;
* car-vans;
* jeep-type vehicles with no seats in the back; or
* vans adapted to carry passengers.
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this is from the NI policy,dunno if UK is different

ah heres the UK wording

If your certificate of insurance says so, we will also cover you, the
policyholder, for your liability to other people while you are driving
any other privately owned motor car which you do not own or
have not hired under a hire-purchase or lease agreement, as long
as:
1 the vehicle is not owned by your employer or hired to them
under a hire-purchase or lease agreement;
2 you currently hold a full European Union (EU) licence;
3 the use of the vehicle is covered on the certificate of
insurance;
4 cover is not provided by any other insurance;
5 you have the owner’s permission to drive the vehicle;
6 the vehicle is in a roadworthy condition; and
7 you still have your vehicle and it has not been damaged
beyond cost-effective repair.
This extension applies while being driven within the territorial
limits and only to private passenger vehicles. It does not include:
* vans;
* car-vans;
* jeep-type vehicles with no seats in the back; or
* vans adapted to carry passengers.
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mine says the same as the above in the manual/blerb, but then states nothing atall on teh policy/insurance doc itself,

so I would imagine because I'm (just) under 21 it doesn't apply to me. so Alex I wouldn't buy a car on the intention of driving it this way, you get caught once, you can blag it as an emergancy/permission usage, caught twice doing the same thing in the same car, they'll twig.

all the 'quick' cars I've owned (and have been OWNED by me) have always been put on as a 2nd car policy on mega low milage (500 for the final incarnation of the volvotub) or classic policy with mega low milage (1000 being the lowest they allow). or just day insured for £10.50 or whatever it was, which even if its £20 a day, and you use it both saturday and sunday, still works out a lot cheaper than insuring it properly full time, esp when some wkd's it rains and you don't want to take your baby out in the mud :cry:
 
Alex-R said:
i'm not liking the audi as much as my car in the wet, was going round a corner and put a bit of power on and the front just slid a bit.

put my foot down from like 20 too and it spun, maybe it shud have been RWD.
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put your foot down in a RWD car on a corner and your in a ditch
 
nothing wrong with the audi, just got to get used to having to NOT use full throttle all the time, you get away with it in the punto, but a bigger car thats normally aspirated can be pretty predictable, however being a turbo engine it will spool up at the worst moment, so expect it to spool.

the audi diesel (pd130) ain't that powerful either, 130bhp (ish) and 220lb/ft (ish) at a guess? not exactly red hot. try 265lb.ft and 300lb.ft. THEN you've got not only wheelspin to keep undercontrol but almighty torque steer, thats even evident in top gear at motorway speed. you have to adopt this for overtaking...

leave plenty of space from car infront.
power.
let off.
pull out.
power.
let off.
pull back in.
power.

even try to use WOT whilst steering at speed and your right in the opposite ditch.
wheras with your punto you get as close as you can, drop 2 or 3 gears, WOT and hope for the best:p :p


as for RWD, err I think you need some practise on a track
 
faster4_tec said:
nothing wrong with the audi, just got to get used to having to NOT use full throttle all the time, you get away with it in the punto, but a bigger car thats normally aspirated can be pretty predictable, however being a turbo engine it will spool up at the worst moment, so expect it to spool.

the audi diesel (pd130) ain't that powerful either, 130bhp (ish) and 220lb/ft (ish) at a guess? not exactly red hot. try 265lb.ft and 300lb.ft. THEN you've got not only wheelspin to keep undercontrol but almighty torque steer, thats even evident in top gear at motorway speed. you have to adopt this for overtaking...

leave plenty of space from car infront.
power.
let off.
pull out.
power.
let off.
pull back in.
power.

even try to use WOT whilst steering at speed and your right in the opposite ditch.
wheras with your punto you get as close as you can, drop 2 or 3 gears, WOT and hope for the best:p :p


as for RWD, err I think you need some practise on a track
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thanks for that, the audi is FWD though isn't it?
 
erm yes it is, unless its a quattro version (unliekly with the pd130) which will go round corners like a fwd, and understeer like mad in teh wet, unless you get agressive with it, but unless its mega greasy you don't have enough revvy power to manage that (unless its a tippytronic, the lower powered tippies can sustain a good slide).
 
faster4_tec said:
tuning box's are a halfway house, and TBH I wouldn't be plugging £50 worth of ebay crpness into your dads y'audi (how its mean't to be pronoucned, bit like yoyddling).

audi remaps can be had for as little as £225 :cool: for the diesels.
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yeh maybe you're right, i'm just exploring the different options lol. i found a remap for £199 which brings it to around 170bhp but unsure of the torque
 
plenty, prob about 300lb/ft:)

TBH 170 out of th 1.9 is really about as much as I'd be happy driving one with, if your DADS car has done more than 50k, I would maybe think about a lower tune remap, otherwise you'll be knocing on turbotecniks door within a few month:eek:
 
I think the PD130s can take a reasonable amount of power no problem. On standard stuff, 180bhp max would be fine. Its the torque that buggers things up, and a new clutch/flywheel assembly is mucho £££. The clutch on my Fabia started slipping at 26k (just before I got rid) and the remap was turned on, at most, for 10k of that. It had too much torque! :eek:

If I were to get another PD130 car, I would use Superchips who give modest but usable amounts of power and torque (that wont F up the clutch).
 
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