insurance database car descriptions

[Thud_Mcguffin]

Hmmmmm
I am going to look at an escort rs turbo tomorrow. HPI is clear but when I put the reg into confused.com it tells me it is a 1600 twin cam with no mention of the turbo. Seller says it is legit and he has the V5 which I will check tomorrow. Am I right to be suspicious or are insurance databases sometimes wrong? The reg is G564SYY if anyone wants to check.

Alarm bells are ringing TBH

[Soovy]

Thud_Mcguffin said:

Alarm bells are ringing TBH

You said it.

[McSam]

I have occasionally spotted inaccuracies in the insurance quote-returned data. Not one of five Golf GTI 1.8Ts advertised as being the 180bhp version were described as such, all stated 150bhp, which seemed somewhat odd. It's usually very good but possibly not perfect.

If I were you, I'd pull registrations from other RS Turbos for sale and see if they say the same. If plenty do, then you're probably alright.

[Mr GrimNasty]

Yes there are loads of genuine mistakes on there.

[redstu]

And I thought you were joking!

[Thud_Mcguffin]

McSam said:

If I were you, I'd pull registrations from other RS Turbos for sale and see if they say the same. If plenty do, then you're probably alright.

Good idea I will give that a go, thanks

[Thud_Mcguffin]

redstu said:

And I thought you were joking!

Chav-chic is the new cool Stu!

[sim16v]

Ask MID is often wrong.

My vento VR6 was down as VW -Commercial for about 18 months, despite telling my insurance company about 4 times!

[john_p]

I bet it's been reshelled

[Thud_Mcguffin]

john_p said:

I bet it's been reshelled

I reckon you're right.

Car was a wrong 'un. The vin stamp didn't look quite right and when I put other RS Turbos into the insurance database they came up with the correct description.

The thing is, it was a very good clone and hard to spot. The engine numbers matched and the guy even had the V5.

Oh, and besides the headgasket was shot!

Shame really, body was totally rust free.

Ran away like my pants were on fire.

[checkmate91]

Nothing wrong with reshelling, minis get it all the time. However, a new shell is one thing, a different shell (what's it's provenance?) is something completely different.

If your search showed a 1600 twin cam (is that an RS1600i, or an ordinary 1600?) and you had RST fittings, what happened to the original RST? In other words, were you looking at an RST in a 1600 shell or a 1600 with RST running gear?

What would you insure it as, because in anyone's book it's modified...

ETA academic post as you ran away as fast as you could

Edited by checkmate91 on Tuesday 7th December 21:49