ARoosterinaRoadster
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Hi again to you all out there. Having looked for an Insurance related thread and not finding one I have resorted to posting here.
Yesterday I secured a rather tidy 59,700 miles 2004 SLK 230 Auto that has been declared a Cat N having suffered damage to the front bumper on the NS.
Because of the Bank Holiday interruption I am unable to contact both my current (BMW 330i Touring Auto) Insurer and DVLA as to how to proceed.
The practice by the insurance companies of not allowing insurance repairs to be carried out with Good Pre-Owned and very very serviceable parts creates a number of situations - not least of all that some insurance companies have been known to make things thereafter rather expensively prohibitive or even refuse insurance on that particular car.
The V5c document has not as yet been stamped by DVLA on the basis that the car was retained by the insurance company and sold on to a specialist repairer that had completed the work and had advertised it as such.
The repairer has not registered the car as his in the interim seemingly because it would increase the Registered Keeper tally albeit only from 3 to 4
The V5c is still in the name of the last registered keeper and not recorded as such a CAT N and as I will become the new keeper/owner and receive the 'New Keeper' Green Slip until the whole new V5c is received by me I am therefore at a loss as to taxing and insuring the car or can this all be carried out on line once I have spoken with my current insurance company.
I have not seen any thing on either an insurance website or the DVLA website that cover my two dilemmas.
Yesterday I secured a rather tidy 59,700 miles 2004 SLK 230 Auto that has been declared a Cat N having suffered damage to the front bumper on the NS.
Because of the Bank Holiday interruption I am unable to contact both my current (BMW 330i Touring Auto) Insurer and DVLA as to how to proceed.
The practice by the insurance companies of not allowing insurance repairs to be carried out with Good Pre-Owned and very very serviceable parts creates a number of situations - not least of all that some insurance companies have been known to make things thereafter rather expensively prohibitive or even refuse insurance on that particular car.
The V5c document has not as yet been stamped by DVLA on the basis that the car was retained by the insurance company and sold on to a specialist repairer that had completed the work and had advertised it as such.
The repairer has not registered the car as his in the interim seemingly because it would increase the Registered Keeper tally albeit only from 3 to 4
The V5c is still in the name of the last registered keeper and not recorded as such a CAT N and as I will become the new keeper/owner and receive the 'New Keeper' Green Slip until the whole new V5c is received by me I am therefore at a loss as to taxing and insuring the car or can this all be carried out on line once I have spoken with my current insurance company.
I have not seen any thing on either an insurance website or the DVLA website that cover my two dilemmas.