Alpina Insurance

[raceboy]

My old man drives a BMW Alpina B3 3.0 Switchtronic coupe, and every year has a right nightmare trying to insure it as it doesn't come up on the mainstream insurance companies computers, they all start asking numpty questions like is it an import, is it modifyed, don't you mean M3 not B3, etc, anyone got any names/numbers of likely companies that are going to reconise the model?

[raceboy]

I think he's tried them, they use the same car database as Direct Line/Tesco, No B3 only M3.
The joys of driving a relativly rare car

[raceboy]

Tried a load of the ads in the back of EVO, most of them just say, 'don't you mean M3' like you don't know what car you drive they advertise there because a lot of people that buy performance car magazines don't actually have one, the worst are the ones who say 'well we'll quote you on an M3, but if you take up cover they will be the 1st people to point out it isn't an M3 and refuse to pay up come claim time!