Insurance and warranty period track days

[Gulf7]

For the last few years of Lotus ownership I've been with Henderson Taylor. That's given me 5 track days cover and agreed value for about £400. I've now sold the Elise and my factory build Seven arrives in the new year. Henderson Taylor don't cover Caterhams, so apart from Lloyd and Whyte who Caterham recommend, who's good?

Also, are Caterham true to their word about encouraging track days during the warranty period?

TIA

Edited by Gulf7 on Sunday 27th June 20:57

[BertBert]

No idea now, but back in the dark ages, they replaced my R500 motor when it grenaded at 450 miles at Donington.

[anonymous-user]

Gulf7 said:

For the last few years of Lotus ownership I've been with ERS through Henderson Taylor. That's given me 5 track days cover and agreed value for about £400. I've now sold the Elise and my factory build Seven arrives in the new year. Henderson Taylor don't cover Elises, so apart from Lloyd and Whyte who Caterham recommend, who's good?

Also, are Caterham true to their word about encouraging track days during the warranty period?

TIA

I assume you mean HT don’t cover 7s?

I used L and W for a couple of years. Last two I’ve been with Reis. Much less expensive, though they ask for quite a lot more info, which can be a bit tedious but not really difficult and of course only the first time.

My, self built, R400D needed a new gearbox at around 1000 miles. Took the car back to CC and they changed the box with no quibble. I’d done 1 TD but they never asked or even mentioned what use the car had had.

[Gulf7]

BertBert said:

No idea now, but back in the dark ages, they replaced my R500 motor when it grenaded at 450 miles at Donington.

You took it on track to run it in!

Reassuring about their response though.

Edited by Gulf7 on Monday 29th July 20:29

[Aeroscreens]

I've used REIS for many years, possibly not the cheapest but, they provide Agreed Value on my 26 year old 7, 5000 miles and 5 trackdays for £400 including Legal Services.

As they say the proof of the pudding is in the eating and I unfortunately had reason to make a large claim some years back and use their legal Services following an accident in Switzerland. I couldn't fault them in any way.

[BertBert]

Gulf7 said:

You took it on track to run it in!
Reassuring about their response though.

The R500 engine came run-in at the time

[BertBert]

It took a bit of unraveling to get to the button of what happened. On track the bolt came out the front of the crank and the cam belt came off and the pistons hit valves.

When caterham took the gearbox off the engine, the flywheel fell off as the bolts had come loose. It was eventually attributed to the fact that caterham had replaced the flywheel at the PBC to solve a jamming starter problem.

There were some challenging discussions, but give then their due, once they came round to my way of thinking, they put a new motor in without further quibbling.

But I destroyed the second one with the famous cement incident. But that's another story!
Bert

[Gulf7]

Another question: which clubs do people take their Caterham on track with?

Edited by Gulf7 on Sunday 27th June 21:00

[BertBert]

I would have said Bookatrack, but no idea now they are under new ownership.
Bert

[LateStarter]

Did a lotus on track at Brands last week, so have a bit of an idea of what you're used to.

I'd say bookatrack as well, done 3 days with them this year under their new management and they were all very very well run with car numbers limited so that you always had a good run.

Bookatrack days will though have a few more race cars at them than I saw at lotus on track.

Also Footman James are very good for caterham insurance