One word answer Yes or No
Jan 25th 2012 | 9:44 pm
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Re: One word answer Yes or No
Re. Insurance. this is what our Moderator Fred James posted
You are quite correct about the legality issue but you are wrong in making the assumption that just because a car is illegal, that the insurance would be invalid.
It will depend on the wording of the policy. For example not having a valid ITV does not necessarily invalidate your insurance. The company may have a clause about roadworthiness but an ITV certificate does not prove that the vehicle is roadworthy apart from the minute you drove it out of the test centre.
I raised this specific point with Linea Directa and they confirmed to me that absence of a valid ITV would not affect the policy any more than not having paid your road t
You are quite correct about the legality issue but you are wrong in making the assumption that just because a car is illegal, that the insurance would be invalid.
It will depend on the wording of the policy. For example not having a valid ITV does not necessarily invalidate your insurance. The company may have a clause about roadworthiness but an ITV certificate does not prove that the vehicle is roadworthy apart from the minute you drove it out of the test centre.
I raised this specific point with Linea Directa and they confirmed to me that absence of a valid ITV would not affect the policy any more than not having paid your road t
So, whilst the insurance 'may' be OK, the car is certainly illegally on the road which is what the OP was asking.
Jan 25th 2012 | 10:02 pm
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Re: One word answer Yes or No
OK, but the (Spanish) law does state that the car has to be legal in the country in which it is registered. Does this not mean that it must be taxed AND mot'd to be legal in UK?
So, whilst the insurance 'may' be OK, the car is certainly illegally on the road which is what the OP was asking.
So, whilst the insurance 'may' be OK, the car is certainly illegally on the road which is what the OP was asking.
Jan 25th 2012 | 10:31 pm
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Jan 25th 2012 | 10:32 pm
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Re: One word answer Yes or No
Jan 25th 2012 | 11:36 pm
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Re: One word answer Yes or No
Re. Insurance. this is what our Moderator Fred James posted
You are quite correct about the legality issue but you are wrong in making the assumption that just because a car is illegal, that the insurance would be invalid.
It will depend on the wording of the policy. For example not having a valid ITV does not necessarily invalidate your insurance. The company may have a clause about roadworthiness but an ITV certificate does not prove that the vehicle is roadworthy apart from the minute you drove it out of the test centre.
I raised this specific point with Linea Directa and they confirmed to me that absence of a valid ITV would not affect the policy any more than not having paid your road t
You are quite correct about the legality issue but you are wrong in making the assumption that just because a car is illegal, that the insurance would be invalid.
It will depend on the wording of the policy. For example not having a valid ITV does not necessarily invalidate your insurance. The company may have a clause about roadworthiness but an ITV certificate does not prove that the vehicle is roadworthy apart from the minute you drove it out of the test centre.
I raised this specific point with Linea Directa and they confirmed to me that absence of a valid ITV would not affect the policy any more than not having paid your road t
And BTW I have already given my NO answer
Jan 26th 2012 | 1:07 am
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Re: One word answer Yes or No
Although loads do it, NO it's NOT legal, and one day he will pay the price and by god fines here are not cheap, so I hope he has a wad of cash when they do catch him, and they will.
Jan 26th 2012 | 1:13 am
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Re: One word answer Yes or No
Jan 26th 2012 | 1:17 am
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Re: One word answer Yes or No
What you have to remember is that insurance companies are only too happy to take money, but are never keen to pay out and if they find a reason not to they wont - simple!!!! Then theres the guardia. If you have an accident and the car is illegal, they'll have you, make no mistake!!!!
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Jan 26th 2012 | 2:01 am
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Re: One word answer Yes or No
Rule of thumb:
It's far easier to count the things which are indisputably "legal" than those things which are easily interpreted as "illegal", especially when it involves easy money (both the opportunity to collect it, or conversely the opportunity to avoid paying it) over some "technicality".
So, given those odds, what do you think your chances might be?
It's far easier to count the things which are indisputably "legal" than those things which are easily interpreted as "illegal", especially when it involves easy money (both the opportunity to collect it, or conversely the opportunity to avoid paying it) over some "technicality".
So, given those odds, what do you think your chances might be?
Jan 26th 2012 | 4:04 am
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Re: One word answer Yes or No
Jan 26th 2012 | 4:13 am
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Re: One word answer Yes or No
No!
