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Originally Posted by liketheroman
I never know why this area of debate on rather a dry subject causes such feelings. If you are not happy with doing something in a particular way, dont do it, no one wants to convince you.
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That is fine Roman - but I sort of feel you are trying to convince me (and lombardia, and potentially a lot more 'suckers') that we should do things your way.
From direct experience I have seen insurers run a mile from claims made on policies which (in your interpretation) are solid genuine claims.
I would like to assert again that if you are driving a vehicle WHICH WOULD NOT BE REGARDED AS LEGAL OR ROADWORTHY in the country in which it is registered (in other words, for a vehicle on UK plates, if it is out of UK MOT, tax, or on a SORN), if it has been in Italy for even as little as two weeks an insurer could walk away from it.
As I have mentioned before, times have changed: I was not unhappy about running a UK reg car in Italy until about six years ago.....then (and I'm sorry that your despised EU got its act a little bit together) the writing arrived on the wall black and clear.
And - I wonder if you have noticed - do your Italian neighbours not feel a certain amount of resentment that you are driving around in a foreign reg car and not paying any bollo?