Xr6 Turbo For P-Plater <Merged Topic>

[YPURV4]

So if I get drunk tonight and wipe my car out, I am covered according to you.

It's against the law to drive over 0.05 but I have full comprehensive so I am covered regardless of the laws, right?

ok ill rephase that

Edited 18/09/07 09:08 AM by YPURV4

[[XRS1X]]

as I said before it depends on the exclusion clause of your contract as to whether or not you are covered. Some insurance company's will cover you whilst others wont that's why you have to read the fine print

Edited 18/09/07 09:10 AM by [XRS1X]

[Craig.]

ok ill rephase that

Thanks mate!

I understand that your insurance company covered you in that instance, but it might be more of an oversight on there behalf that they paid out, or the fact that they were able to track down the guy at fault to re coupe the costs involved.

I am wondering if their willingness to cover you would have been the same in a single vehicle collision or one in which you were at fault. Just a thought!

Edited 18/09/07 09:11 AM by craiginmackay

[YPURV4]

I dont know??? but if was paying $2500 a year and they didnt cover me I would be taking them to court. At the end of they day you could argue that they took your money so they should cover you or have told you that it would void to start with if this or that happend.

But I was sweet so I dont care, and im off my P's now and pay half what I used to with all my mods

[harvyk]

I dont know??? but if was paying $2500 a year and they didnt cover me I would be taking them to court.

Funniest thing I’ve see all day.

You’d honestly have no chance unless you could also pay for a very good lawyer.

Insurance companies are experts at getting out of things. They would no doubt have a very water tight contract which you had signed, and the fact that the act which your expecting them to cover was illegal you wouldn’t have common law on your side either (the only way to get a loophole in an insurance contract).

[YPURV4]

Funniest thing I’ve see all day.

You must have a very very sad life then......

And like I said they held up for me, and im off my P's now so no dramas.

[bk284]

Im in NSW not really sure of the legislation but I know of a few people who have had a run in with the law for driving v8 on their red p's. It just attracts so much damn attention.

[XXXRTURBO]

Hey mate,

I drive an xr6t here in victoria, Unfortunately I was stupid enough to speed on the freeway and got done by a highway patrol car and yes I lost my licence, only for a month but.

Other then that if you de-badge it and make it look like a sleeper and dont drive it like a d**k the cops wont even notice you, the cops love the skylines, wrx and all that jap crap.

Insurance is very expensive I am with RACV and I payed almost 3000 for mine. But I work hard for my money and like to spend it somewhere.

XR6 TURBO Light blue, monza cooler, airintake APS, exhaust, gauges oil temp boost!!!

Thanks

[AzMahoony]

EXCLUSIVE: P-PLATERS will be banned from driving high-powered cars under Labor - and confiscated vehicles will be sold, even if they belong to drivers' parents.

Premier Alan Carpenter outlined the new policy in an interview with The Sunday Times and said the proceeds of cars sold would be used to help victims of road trauma.

P-platers would be banned from getting behind the wheel of V8, turbo or super-charged cars and even those with modified six-cylinder engines.

The car models to be banned would be listed in the legislation.

Even if owned by the driver's parents, confiscated cars would be sold.

Mr Carpenter said the new laws were a way of protecting young inexperienced people on the road.

They would also protect their friends and families.

"It is obvious that 17-year-old boys getting behind the wheel of a high-performance car is asking for trouble,'' Mr Carpenter said.

"We've got to stop that from happening. It's about the safety of the broader community and the safety of the young kids themselves.

"And ordinary people do not want to be terrorised by hoons. Some of these accidents have come ploughing into people's houses.''

Under present laws, cars can be impounded by police for seven days on the first hoon offence and 28 days on the second. Police can confiscate the car on the third offence.

The ban on high-powered cars was no different from existing laws that restrict novice motorcycle riders to machines under 250CC.

Work-related exemptions would be considered.

"But as a general rule young kids, invariably boys, don't need as their first vehicle to be driving a high performance car,'' Mr Carpenter said.

Hooning was one of the most complained-about law and order issues in the state. It was traditional in Australia to own bigger cars because of our wide open roads, but hoons had become more of a problem because young people had more money to spend than before on big, powerful vehicles.

Mr Carpenter said he had often seen hoons. One night last week, while driving back to Perth on Great Eastern Highway, two cars flashed past him.

"They were obviously racing,'' he said.

Mr Carpenter said it made more sense to sell confiscated cars than crush them.

"Rather than the vehicle being crushed, and effectively becoming worthless, the vehicle should be sold and the money go into the Road Trauma Trust Fund,'' he said.

"So it will be directly earmarked to assist people who have been injured in car accidents.

"It is not as superficially attractive as crushing the cars, but it makes more sense because you get a return.''

The latest move to strengthen anti-hoon laws comes only two months after the Government increased the power of police to confiscate cars for seven days for a first offence and 28 days for a second offence.

The Government has picked up on community sentiment reflected in a The Sunday Times law and order survey last September.

On the issue of hoons, 95 per cent of readers who responded to the survey believed P-plate drivers should not be allowed to get behind the wheel of high-powered vehicles. And 50 per cent wanted confiscated cars to be sold, with the proceeds put back into road safety.

In all my brother and all his mates (which most are mine too) are pretty much stuffed..

[Dillz]

Damn, sucks to be a P Plater in woop woop.