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Old 16th May 2018, 10:51 AM
HPsauce HPsauce is offline
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The other odd thing is that it has the winter tyres down as a modification.
My current insurer has a clause saying "Wheels - Winter set to replace standard for season" and I don't need to tell them when I swap.
This lot, and I phoned them, insist that they are told every time I swap the wheels over, sounds crazy.
They did say they do not charge for such changes.
And a weird little follow-up to that. I took the winter wheels/tyres off a while back now and told the insurers.

Our daughter visited us for a few days recently and wanted a car to go house-hunting, so I checked what it would cost to add her temporarily to our insurance; the answer was absolutely nothing in both cases, so I did that.
She was mostly driving the Volvo, but I let her have a go in the S8 as well with me as passenger. She has driven all sorts of stuff from a young age, including borrowing my big company cars when just 17, and regularly takes quite large vehicles to/from construction sites.

As ever with insurers the paperwork didn't arrive until ages later, only just got the Audi-related certificate. On examining it, it still shows winter tyres, even though I told them when I took them off. Strange.

I did just phone to check, told them explicitly that I have standard tyres on now, and they said it was all fine as it was. That's just how they record it!
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2003 D2 FL S8. Irish Green Pearl/Beige. Solar sunroof, auto-dim mirrors, electric rear seat functions, ski hatch retrofit; extended leather. Aftermarket DVB-T, reversing camera and full XCarlink (Bluetooth etc.).
2016 Volvo V40 T5 Cross Country (4WD) with ALL the toys including adaptive cruise etc. etc. Osmium Grey with Blonde/Charcoal leather interior. Polestar performance "optimisation". (A much rarer model than a D2 S8 by the way!) Oh, and a brand new engine at just under 30,000 miles on the factory one!
Finally: gone, but not forgotten.....
1998 D2 PF S8. AgateGrey/Platinum. Every option (I think) except electric rear seats, tiptronic steering wheel, ski hatch, towbar & dimming door mirrors.
e.g. Cruise control, NavPlus/TV, Bose, GSM, Xenons, Solar roof, Parking sensors, Alcantara/leather everywhere of course. (internal dimming mirror added later)
1998 (very early) Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec; ABS/TCS, Heated screen/mirrors, Aircon, Auto-dim mirror, Leather, Trip computer, Cruise control, OEM Ford SatNav with CD changer.
And before that a lot of Rover 800s, a few oddities, a lovely Triumph Dolomite 1850HL with Overdrive and way back in my schooldays an Austin Seven aka Mini 850!
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