I'm on the phone right now to the customer services (sic) line from Elephant Insurance to find out if I have to inform them when/if I have my windows tinted.

Unfortunately the guy I am speaking to is in a call center in India & is obviously reading from a script & doesn't fully understand what I'm asking him. He has put me on hold at least 6 times to ask about the same query :thumbdwn:

Does anyone else have Elephant insurance & have tints? According to this guy, if I have film tints added to my car I don't have to inform them at all, but they won't be covered if one of them is broken or I'm in an accident. I have asked him to check several times that he is positive I don't have to inform them & he has come back every time saying I don't.

I'm still not convinced though :confuse: How have other people with tints got on with their insurance companies?

What I'm worried about right now is if I have the tints done and follow the advice given to me, that they will claim my insurance is invalid.... :eek:

Update :

I cheated & called the renewals line to ask to be put through to Customer Services in the UK.

Apparently I was told a bare-faced lie by the other guy.... Elephant will not insure me under any circumstances if my windows are film-tinted. My policy would be null & void.

Just goes to show how Elephant's costcutting move to Indian call centers could have cost me a huge amount of money (not to mention other repurcussions) for having invalid insurance :thumbdwn: :eek:

You have been warned.....

Could anyone recommend some tint-friendly insurance companies? I'm going to try Chris Knot in the morning as they are closed now.

Cheers!

do they still offer it in their list of modifications on the website renewal form?

Adrian Flux charged me nothing extra for my window tints...

I've never been charged but thats the advantage of an all mods policy... Saying that I have to get around to "having a word" with LV about recent goings ons... A weekend job I think.

First Alternative charged me an extra

I've never been charged but thats the advantage of an all mods policy... Saying that I have to get around to "having a word" with LV about recent goings ons... A weekend job I think.

Jason, have you read Colin's recent post about LV here? They stopped insuring modified cars wef Nov 2004. If you have carried out any mods since then - and maybe previous ones you haven't declared - your policy is likely to be cancelled. That said, I'm still waiting for written confirmation from them that I can have a variable boost controller fitted. They okayed it by phone in February but have failed so far to reply to a letter from me asking for written confirmation. I phoned again this week about the non-reply and was told that any mods other than alloys would not be accepted. I then referred to the previous conversation clearing the mod, at which stage the person I was talking to went off to speak to one of their underwriters. The mod was okayed (again) and a note to that effect put on file. I then faxed another letter - in which I referred to the latest call and enclosed a copy of my original letter - and asked for a reply to that earlier letter. I will post details of the reply as and when...

do they still offer it in their list of modifications on the website renewal form?

I can't get into the renewals or policy update sections with my account. It tells me I have to call Customer Services. This is a problem in itself because if you make policy changes online they only charge

Update :

I cheated & called the renewals line to ask to be put through to Customer Services in the UK.

Apparently I was told a bare-faced lie by the other guy.... Elephant will not insure me under any circumstances if my windows are film-tinted. My policy would be null & void.

Just goes to show how Elephant's costcutting move to Indian call centers could have cost me a huge amount of money (not to mention other repurcussions) for having invalid insurance :thumbdwn: :eek:

You have been warned.....

Could anyone recommend some tint-friendly insurance companies? I'm going to try Chris Knot in the morning as they are closed now.

Cheers!

sounds like UK knads as usual, as here windows can be blacked out to order on a new car!

and YOU can even black out the rear screen, only the front screen is a no no, otherwise black away!!!! insurance????? they ask NOTHING they can only get body and engine nos!!!

however anyone if in france will know this:

your car is BLACK

light or dark???

WTF!!??? its black black or its grey!! no its facking black!!!! so its dark black then!

Tesco want around

Tesco want around