what do i put my buggy down as?

[jason_l]

Hi All,

Just a quick one again :

Been looking through the paperwork for the IVA and although im a long way off of it i have started filling in parts now, all be it in draft from but i have started!

Anyway am i going to have any problems with the fact that my chassis has been modfied? Where it states make and model i was going to simply put 'ABS, Freestyle' but will there be a problem with my chassis being different from other freestyles? Or should i actually put freestyle 'GT' on the paperwork and declare it as a different freestyle 'model'?

It may put my insurance up a little if i register it as a GT model, and they start asking questions about how many have been made and i say 1  but im not really worried about that.

thanks for any help people,

Jason

 

[iank]

I'd just put it down as a freestyle personally.  As there is no such thing as a standard kit build (except maybe for some Caterham's and a few Westfield's) the specialist insurers don't get into modifications like a tin top insurer would.  I doubt they even know what a freestyle is in any real detail.  Every policy is bespoke for your car but to simplify their lives they don't do much more than take the engine size and estimated value into account.  The reason they can do that is if you're driving a kit you're unlikely to be wearing a burberry cap backwards and doing donuts in tesco's car park.  If you've screwed it together yourself your actually a lot more likely to be driving sensibly because you value it beyond the cash value.
Calling it a GT wouldn't do a thing to the valuation IMO.

 

[biddleboy]

hi jason on my v5 i put freestyle funbuggy as after all its still a freestyle but with bollocks of an engine  as for the insurance ime with Adrian flux 109 per year and wen i said that i was putting a bigger engine in it did not bother them thay just said its a kit car so its all modified

 

[jason_l]

Thanks for the info guys, thinks i will try and get away with calling it just a freestyle  ;D

I was more worried about the IVA part, i take it that they don't have measurememnts of the chassis or anything like that?

I got my quote with Adrian Flux and like you have said they didn't really care about mods, he wasn't even bothered what engine it was.........they only wanted to know engine size, he didn't even ask if it had a big turbo strapped to it  8)

 

[Phaeton]

I was more worried about the IVA part, i take it that they don't have measurememnts of the chassis or anything like that?

They do measure the chassis both wheelbase & track, not sure what they do with the information, I think it's used for the calculated breaking efficiency on axle weights.

Alan

 

[jason_l]

I was more worried about the IVA part, i take it that they don't have measurememnts of the chassis or anything like that?

They do measure the chassis both wheelbase & track, not sure what they do with the information, I think it's used for the calculated breaking efficiency on axle weights.

Alan

Thats ok. Just wanted to make sure they don't take measurements and then check them against measurements they have for a freestyle chassis to confirm it is a freestyle.

 

[iank]

VOSA really don't car what kind of car you have.  You can weld together your own design and as long as it 'looks' strong enough they're happy.
They don't keep any kind of information on different kits, everything is treated as unique as it come through the door.