Sarnie

Yeah it won't happen because the moderating staff and admin wont let it. Exactly why I posted this thread I would have done it previously, especially when I had zeds, even put my name forward for it, but I assume as I'm not a "yes man" they didn't see fit for it to happen even though I know the cars, the site and have plenty of free time on my hands which is something the mods claim to have a lack of.

Great idea Won't happen though

Depends on the company policy and the insurance: ie When I was at Audi, we used to chuck the keys a clients and ask when would they be back with it! At Merc I would only be allowed to do this for an existing customer At Nissan very rarely would this happen at all 99% were accompanied... I find this quite odd too. Nissan sent me a flyer for a roadster so i phoned them and said I was potentially interested and would like to have one for a weekend as I'd never had a roadster and wanted to see if I could live with one. The line went quiet until he said "I'm sorry but it will be an accompany'd test drive and only up and down the dual carriageway that surrounds the dealership". I told them to forget it, I wasn't going to fork out thousands of pounds based on a 5 minute test drive on a dual carriageway. Conversely, Lambo Brum offered me a Gallardo Spyder for the weekend as long as I covered the petrol and put it on my insurance..........

One with no GT pack: http://www4.autotrader.co.uk/classified ... ?logcode=p GT Pack but 53k http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3823649.htm GT pack 34k & could may be be haggled down to £10k http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3745999.htm

incined to agree with you as im the same for roads, never thrash it etc however I DO FIND that around town the car runs smoother and less lumpy at low speeds and low revs on super, However on a cruise on the motorway i found no difference other than a reduced MPG as such I generally stick to super not for performance top end but for my own comfort and enjoyment around town rich I 100% agree. I'm not saying the zed won't run better on 97 RON, just that your engine isn't going to blow up because you run it on 95 RON either. One example of a shot piston does not make a generic car wide issue imo......

That depends on which facelift your referring to There are MY06 Azure zed's, which was the first facelift

I still don't believe the whole 'it needs to be super unleaded' thing........one failed piston does not make it an endemic issue. I agree that the zed was optimized to run on Super. I also appreciate that the car may get a slightly higher MPG and make the car more responsive. I understand that running it on 95 RON may mean that the car potentially loses a few BHP, but as I can never extend my car to 100% of it's potential on the road, whats a few lost bhp? I ran both my zeds and Gallardo on 95 RON and have not heard of either having any issue before I owned them, during or after. People propogating running their cars on 97 RON only, need to think about the vast majority of the mileage on their cars could easily have been on 95 RON and they'd be non the wiser.....so unless you gonna do it from new then what's the point?

It was probably more directed at the desperate house husbands flocking around the vaguest scent of perfume

I'm ok thanks, horny old people is not my thing

Is this thread a Saga convention???

Glad you got it sorted in the end. I'm pretty sure that they have said that they would wouldn't have insured him on the zed as the main driver due to the fact that he would have zero NCD. You have to think about it from a risk point of view. Lets say a main driver drives the car 90% of the time and the named driver 10%. From an insurers point of view, you want the person who is the main driver and exposing them to risk 90% of the time, to be the lowest risk e.g high NCD and probably female etc. Conversely it also makes sense for an insurer to spread the risk, hence why it is usually cheaper to add someone else to a policy. Granted it doesn't make a lot of sense to most people but the logic is sound and I've not heard of many insurance companies going bust so they obviously know what they are doing.......

For insurance purposes the legal owner is the same as the Keeper of the vehicle eg the name on the V5, that will show up on the ANPR searches etc. When you take out insurance they will ask if you are the legal owner and or keeper of the vehicle. My concern is that if twobears is down as the owner/keeper of the zed of the V5 then Mr twobears cannot insure it as the owner/keeper and then put twobears down as a named driver. Similarly, twobears daughter could not insure the FIAT in her name as the main driver without changing the V5 over to reflect her new status as the owner/keeper of the vehicle. My M3 was bought and paid for by me, so the V5 and subsequent insurance was in my name and Mrs Sarnie as named driver. When we got the Alfa, it was cheaper to insure it with her as the main driver and me as the named driver, which mean't the car was registered in her name and the V5 reflects this.

Some one's been busy

Love it

Why don't we have an 'online party'???? Everyone get a load of booze in on the 26th , get trashed and post pictures of your booze going down and watch everyones posts get more and more incoherent

I think you need to discuss it all with your husband and clarify exactly what the situation is, then you can workout the way forward as theres so many options depending up on the exact circumstances. +1 You need to clarify with your husband, where he gained the NCD that he is using on the zed? If it's fifteen years of not claiming on the company cars insurance, then he needs to clarify with the insurer of the zed that this is acceptable, as as far as I'm aware, it's not. If he is using NCD that he had from his CBR, he also needs to clarify that this is acceptable as a) it's a motorbike and if this was a few years ago, how big a gap will the insurer allow in insurance policies to allow you to carry on the NCD. As I said previously, you can't build up a load of NCD and then not have a policy for a few years and then just start up a policy using the previous NCD. NCD is given for CONSECUTIVE years of not claiming, any break in insurance, renders the previous NCD invalid usually.

It does say '300' in the title, which confirms that it is a MY06 car registered in 2007.

My initial concern is that you have insured your husband as the main driver of the zed, when he is not the legal owner of the car. Most insurers require the main driver to be the owner. If your husband is on his companies insurance, he cannot be accumulating personal NCD. If you think about it, NCD is granted for each year that you have a policy without claiming, but your husband doesn't have a policy as he is (assumedly) on his companies insurance. How many years has he been insured via the company? Or, how long ago is it since he had his own personal policy? You need to be wary if it's been a few years, as you can't rack up say 10 years of NCD, have a few years off whilst you drive a company car, and then suddenly start up a policy claiming the 10 years NCD that you accumulated previously.......

It's true that you can't accumulate NCD on two cars, unless the insurance company will mirrow the NCD he has, which not all do. Have you tried to a multicar policy with Admiral? Who is the legal owner of the zed, you or your husband?

For £200k, you'd hope so!!

I did exactly this!! Bought him a Scalextrix for his first birthday that he is not supposed to play with until he is five years old plus!!

I don't think anyone would seriously think that this is going to be an awesome all terrain vehicle. I also don't think anyone who would be seriously considering this car would even have it in their mind that this is going to be the best off road car out there. People purchasing it will be buying it with the thought of buying a car to transport their families, quickly whilst still being able to buy into the Lambo brand. How many Cayenne's or even RRS' are ever taken off road?? Most are rich man's wives cars used to drop the kids off at their private schools etc etc.

Think Ive found the solution for us Liam... http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/lambo ... ls-leaked/ I need this first