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[fishermanferg]

decided to now put the thunderbird on the road looked online for insurers that do royal enfield insurance first of bennetts after waiting for ages on a salesperson only to be told we do not do frey imports bloody annoyed I asked then why the hell do you not mention that when you advertise that you do royal enfield insurance unbelievable next we do royal enfield insurance too a company called devitts same bloody answer its a grey import if its not on our dropdown list we cannot give you cover same retort from why don't you say that in your adverts back to bennetts for a minute they have been bought over by saga who boast we help the over fifties w ell saga I'm 68 and you didn't help me moving on b.wiser managed to get a quote told them it was a bullet thunderbird they offered me a deal free breakdown cover free life insurance free this free that for £185 told them no thanks too dear and you are the first company ive phoned I have some more to try he said did you have a figure in mind I said about £80 he said hang on I will have a word with my manager back he came we will give the same cover for £85.88 typical bloody insurers so I accepted that full comp I suppose if parts were hard to come by they would just write it of if it was scratched I'm now legal taxed and moted

[Scalyback]

Wow!
,br> Helps to haggle then! Anyway, nice that it is on the road. YAY!

[papasmurf]

I am very puzzled at insurance companies not covering grey imports, because my wife and I have never had any problems at all getting insurance cover for them. Spare parts have never been a problem either, even on a 31 year old grey import Honda Nighthawk we used to have, or a Yamaha Radian.

[fishermanferg]

thanks for replies and papasmurf your right when I had my 1980 Honda cm custom it was rare in a sense that it was imported in 1984 from Germany normally American market ikes any way the only insurer that had the cm in their dropdown list was bennetts I had it insured with them for 3 years and when it was time to insure it again they sent a letter saying they could no longer offer me cover for this bike something to do with underwriters of course just coincidence that they were just bought over by saga I hasd no problems getting parts for it not that it needed a lot anyway

[nigelphoto]

Try http://www.peterjamesinsurance.co.uk They specialise in classic and obscure bikes. I'm 68 too and found Saga to be a total waste of office space. It fact I got so cross with the stupidity of the 16 year call-centre twat that I wrote a letter of complaint to Roger Ramsden the CEO and I got a Christmas hamper with Thorntons and a bottle of proper bubbly in it - I still didn't insure with them, mind. Peter James did an old MZ and my Bullet fully comp for £130. PS Bennetts are part of Saga which explains why they are so useless.

[apparently lucky eddie]

On the other hand Bennetts insured my Tiger 90 for 60 odd pounds and my 3 years old Suzuki for less than £80. Saga also insure my obscure old Perodua car. I've had no issues or problems with either company. Incidentally the dots after each sentence are full stops!

[pd110961]

this is my pate hate.. insurance companies or the AA/RAC.. send you a quote and rely on the fact that most will just pay up no questions asked. I always phone up and 95% of the time get a much better deal. just swapped to the AA for breakdown (I FOOLISHLY SWAPPED TOP THE RAC FOR A YEAR... WHAT TOSSERS THEY WERE!) and was quoted £144.. got it for £120.

[fishermanferg]

thanks for your replies, now to learn what the keyboard can do . your never to old to learn fullstops commas etc, will make reading posts easier I would imagine.think this is better. now to master typos sometimes when I am writing, with my head down then when I look up, ive either written in Klingon ! or created a new language.