iv'e gotta put a smaller engine in my new gsi . i was wondering if the insurance company would be bothered if the car used to be a gsi or would they charge extra?
cheers
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iv'e gotta put a smaller engine in my new gsi . i was wondering if the insurance company would be bothered if the car used to be a gsi or would they charge extra?
cheers
why have you gotta put a smaller engine in your gsi?
insurance may be bothered as to thiefs it will still look like a GSi and more likely to get pinched
depends on company me thinks :D
coz im only 17. i bought the car coz its totally modified (not the one on my profile). i'd only insure the car 3rd party f&t, and the insurance company im going with told me not to declare the mods to them.
its just me old man thinking i won't be able insure coz it use to be a gsi.
i treid to get quotes on GTE with 1.2 engine in it when i was 17 and they all said no would be same as gte if not more coz its been converted :?
Does depend very much on the base car - hence why a lot of people use 1ltrs as project cars! Most insurance companies would insure it as a GTE with modifications. The only way round it *maybe* would be to drop the 1.2 in, change the details with the DVLA and then the car is a fully fledged 1.2?
good idea but the original reg will still show on an insurance DB as a GSIQuote:
Originally Posted by Road_knight76
swap all ur bits to another shell mate much easier :P
also its a GTE/GSI for reasons other than just the engine, thats why the insurance is higher more bits to replace and more comforts etc than a 1.2
mine comes up with GSI on mine an its a 5 door...?Quote:
good idea but the original reg will still show on an insurance DB as a GSI
swap all ur bits to another shell mate much easier
cut and shut?
lmfao
fuck knows, insurance companies dont know what they are doing anyway
Insurance Databases aren't always 100% accurate (did a quote once for a 1994 Celica ST205 GT4, it came up as a Carlos Sainz model.... which is an ST185, i.e. 1991 model year lol).
Best option though is probably to pick up a cheap 1.2 and put all your GSi stuff on it if you really want the GSi bits rather than do the engine swap.