Count Drunkula
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Well, back on Black Friday I bought the chariot a MBRP cat back and because I'm a cheapskate it's been sitting in the garage waiting for my insurance renewal, so I don't have to pay for a mid-term alteration to policy.
Anyway, the great moment is upon us and it's time for renewal, so I get some quotes with the cat-back declared and just for interest, some with car still stock.
Obviously everyone's insurance parameters are different, so what you end up paying varies, but for information I'm a million years old with a max NCB and live in pretty good post code from a crime point of view.
So, the best the Meerkats could manage on the stock car fully comp was £263 (which is very good). Then I tried it with the exhaust, nothing else different and the best result was £436. That's a massive £173 difference. So on that basis, if I keep the car for 5 years the pipe will have cost me it's purchase price and an additional £865 to insure it, which is more than it cost me to buy the thing in the first place. I'm gonna do it anyway, but that seems like a hell of a lot for just some noise.
I did ring round a few specialists and most of them were worse than the Meerkats and in the end the absolute best I could manage was £395. Bloody hell....
Anyway, the great moment is upon us and it's time for renewal, so I get some quotes with the cat-back declared and just for interest, some with car still stock.
Obviously everyone's insurance parameters are different, so what you end up paying varies, but for information I'm a million years old with a max NCB and live in pretty good post code from a crime point of view.
So, the best the Meerkats could manage on the stock car fully comp was £263 (which is very good). Then I tried it with the exhaust, nothing else different and the best result was £436. That's a massive £173 difference. So on that basis, if I keep the car for 5 years the pipe will have cost me it's purchase price and an additional £865 to insure it, which is more than it cost me to buy the thing in the first place. I'm gonna do it anyway, but that seems like a hell of a lot for just some noise.
I did ring round a few specialists and most of them were worse than the Meerkats and in the end the absolute best I could manage was £395. Bloody hell....
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