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Newbie here with some questions...
Telaren:
Hi,
I had my Defender 90 insured with Snowball Insurance. I found them cheap and if you state reduced milage and second car they will accept your 9 Years no claims for a second car (Or they did with me) :lol:
They also insured me for off roading (Non-comp) and green laning.
Hope this helps and welcome to the land of great Discos and EMPTY pockets :lol:
Taz
Range Rover Blues:
Don't get me wrong AF were very helpfull last year but you only find out how good an insurance company is when you claim.
Anyway, I soke to the assesors this afternoon and apparently it was there advice that the car is cat B not cat C, even though it's repairable because the cost of repair using new parts is 10 grand. Well I said, the cost of buying the car new was over 40 grand, so put into context it's not that badly damaged is it?
I'm toying with either a Tomcat or a Dakar, just to make sure i have NO free time this summer. What do you think?
freeagent:
I'm with the NFU, not the cheapest but I've found them very good.
remove the side steps, I got £65 for mine on Ebay!
next thing I'd do is recovery points and underbody protection... steering guard is good, and sill bars are a good idea..
Think about what you want to achieve before you splash out on a suspension kit, I still haven't done it as i've yet to find a set of springs that i'd spend my money on...
I'd get a set of mud tyres pretty soon aswell...........
don't rush out and buy a winch until you're sure you need one, if you go laning with a group you don't really need one, and its a lot of cash to have sat on the front bumper.. if it never gets used..
don't be shy with the daft questions either, we all started out somewhere, you're bound to get differences of opinion on here, and from that you can make your own mind up...
oh, and when you get the disco, change all the oils, then at least you know they've all been done....
Range Rover Blues:
I'd agree there, bought my winch a year ago at Donnington, used it once when my sister had a 'little incident'
Buy a Hi-Lift jack, not a copy, and add to it the winching kit for about £50. I still carry mine as a backup to the electric or for situations when you need 2 winches or can't get the electric in, so it's not wasted money that way.
Iain C:
Great tips thanks all! I've sent a few PMs, still have not got the Disco yet as the welding fell a little behind schedule, however have been whiling away the time until "D-Day" by studying the Haynes and LR workshop manuals (and adding more and more stuff to the "to do and to buy" lists!) and filling the garden shed up with nice new spares and various cans of oil! Very impressed with spares prices, seem loads cheaper than the S3 bits from 10 years ago!!!!
Oh, and by second car I mean that my company car is my first car. Most companies I speak to are fine to carry the NCB across even though I have been a company driver for a year, however it's worth having the Disco as a second car purely to maintain that NCB!
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