Date:         Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:26:27 -0800
Reply-To:     David Marshall <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA>
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From:         David Marshall <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA>
Subject:      Re: Occasional use insurance in Canada? Was: Declared Value
              Insurance?
Comments: To: Poppie Jagersand <poppie.jagersand@YAHOO.CA>
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You can't be from BC!  :-)  Minimum three months here or I
suppose if you just want to go for a weekend you could get a temp permit
for about $55 for two days.  Ah the wonders of the government
insurance!

David Marshall
VW Adventure Driver and BMW
Adventure Rider
 
http://www.hasenwerk.ca

On Tue,
January 13, 2009 22:10, Poppie Jagersand wrote:
> 
> Does
anyone know where I can find a true occasional use policy
> in
Canada?
> 
> Currently I have my car and Westy insured.
Car is used throughout the
> year. I just looked through the past
five years of logs, and Westy
> is used from 1-3weeks (ie my
vacation and occasional weekend).
> Yet my insurance company
(Wavanesa) charges more or less the same for
> both.
> (ok
its $100 less, 500 for Westy and 600 for car (Vibe), but thats
>
only a 20% rebate for a 95% reduction in used days. Not fair!
>
But insurance agents I call seem clueless at understanding the
>
difference.
> 
> 
>>
From: Dennis Haynes
<d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
>> Restrictions I've seen in
addition to
>> mileage is times of day, (rush hours), to/from
work or any
>> business use,
> 
> Restrictions
like these would be fine with me if it mean I paid for the
> true
risk of the occasional weekend/vacation drive in the countryside
>
instead of being fleeced for more or less the same amount as a daily
>  driver in the city.
> 
> Anyone knows who I should
contact in Canada for true occasional use
> insurance? (I tried
calling the Westy an RV but they didn't go for that)
> 
>
Thanks,
> Martin
> 
> 
>      
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