Insurance woes...

[frankie9fingers]

Rang up RACV b4 asking about lowering and rims. they said i can't go lower than 30mm from std height and the rim width can't exceed 6inch!!

now the lowering i'm not to fussed even though i wanted to drop her 40mm. but 6 inch max rim width!?! Firstly the rims i'm getting only come in 17x7's and secondly if they did come in 6in they would look like big @ss pizza cutters!

end result: FCUK'EM, FCUK'EM HARD!! I'm doin it anyway. they don't want to insure me, i'll go some place else.

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[Degen-Astra]

Wait...what width came on the car as standard?

[PaulTheBall]

For the rims that both Frankie and I have - 15x6 standard on SRi. 14.5 on the lesser Barina models. Nowadays its 16x6 and 15x6 respectively.


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[Anonymous]

end result: FCUK'EM, FCUK'EM HARD!! I'm doin it anyway. they don't want to insure me, i'll go some place else.

That's the spirit
I did the same thing, although somehow I doubt my 18's are legal anyway...

[NUTTTR]

It's not wrong till they deny the claim
ins co's can be right arse's.....
I wanna mod mine, my sri (astra) is 20mm lower than "stock" already, but it IS stock, so i want to lower it by ANOTHER 20mm, to make it 20mm lower than stock sri
However, the insurance company (NRMA) underwriters management (!!!) sent me a letter saying i'm "too high a risk" no claims, 22, male, NCB 5 (55%) they won't insure me unless i remove most of the car stereo and leave the car stock...... which sucks big time, i rang them to complain, they just said, look, we didn't make the decision the company that covers us did.... kinda bad, was a personal written letter and all, actually signed...
i've looked every where else, and besides going with a broker (which is risky because they are more likely to deny a claim than nrma) i can do sweet FA about it

[GAZ914]

Just had to change my insurance from NRMA to AAMI because NRMA won't insure me with the 7" rims

Good news is that the premium is lower , though the "value" of the car is less (if it is a total loss). I can live with that.

Best idea is to shop around, nothing wrong with brokers, as long as you know who the insurance company is. They normally just arrange the cover. I have used (and claimed through) brokers in the past and they are OK.

[Aus-SRi]

Try Just car insurance they basically let u do anything and everything as long as its legal pretty good pricing too

[daastra]

I was happy with Just Cars and use to give them the good word, but I too now share Frankie's same fck'm attitude.

My Atsra's insured through them and I'm hit with so many excesses it's not funny!!! $400 standard, $450 age, $400 rims, more for the kit and so on and so on. Plus the worst part is I havent even been 100% honest!!! Imagine if I had!!! I haven't made a claim to date and I'm paying like $1,500, what's dat shit???

What else does everyone pay??? Just curious to see if I'm being ripped.

[frankie9fingers]

$1500 and i'm 25! but i live in Sunshine 2nd worst suburb for car theft.

[PRC33Y]

I suppose i am grateful that i live in a country town when $800 per year is too much (i really feel for you guys that have to pay $1400 + )

Keep the Opel spirit alive, dont give into the insurance companys. They just rort you guys.

Cheers

Percy