Lancaster Insurance

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:44:21 +0100, Tom Woods <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Ask Lee_d, as his 101 is an 'official' motorcaravan now, as he had to
>do it for his MOT. (The place i took mine to keep letting me off as
>its fairly obvious i'm working on it!)

Mine's been classed (on the V5) as a motorhome for a good few years.
Didn't have to prove anything, just told DVLA it's a motorhome, new V5
returned.

Technically you do need a 'fixed' sink and cooker - mine is built into
a fixed, yet removable kitchen unit - which is also fine. No
requirements for a bed but I _do_ seem to recall something about side
and back windows, and even some kind of size specification for same.

"Mother" <"@ {m} @"@101fc.net> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:44:21 +0100, Tom Woods <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>Ask Lee_d, as his 101 is an 'official' motorcaravan now, as he had to
>>do it for his MOT. (The place i took mine to keep letting me off as
>>its fairly obvious i'm working on it!)
>
> Mine's been classed (on the V5) as a motorhome for a good few years.
> Didn't have to prove anything, just told DVLA it's a motorhome, new V5
> returned.
>
> Technically you do need a 'fixed' sink and cooker - mine is built into
> a fixed, yet removable kitchen unit - which is also fine. No
> requirements for a bed but I _do_ seem to recall something about side
> and back windows, and even some kind of size specification for same.
>

I got into a disagreement with my boss for testing a van (class 7 £35) as a
campervan (class 4 £25) when it had no windows in the back
I phone VOSA (formally VI) and the definition they gave was
"it had to have cooking and washing facilities, storage and seats all of which
must be securely fixed, a table and some sleeping arrangement these may be
removable/convertible
but there is no requirements for windows "
I also phoned the MOT helpline who said more or less the same thing
so it was a big two fingers up to the boss

--
Andy

SWB Series 2a ( dressed as a 3) "Bruce"
It's big, it's mean it's really, really green

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:13:05 +0100, "Andy.Smalley"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>but there is no requirements for windows "
>I also phoned the MOT helpline who said more or less the same thing

Fairy nuf - I must have dream'd whilst high on cheap drugs

so Austin Shackles was, like...
> On or around Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:21:58 +0100, "Richard Brookman"
> <[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>
>> Until you have an accident, having left the "windows" at home, and
>> the assessor clocks that it is really a van. Then you have
>> misinformed them, and they have the right not to pay out, and you're
>> driving uninsured. Great idea to fool campsite operators, but I'd
>> be more cautious with insurers.
>
> I don't think "campervan" implies any particular configuration of
> windows. You are required to have things like sinks and cookers, I
> believe.

Sorry - didn't explain myself well. I was talking about the difference in
insurance terms between a van and a non-van (which is where this thread
started, ISTR - absence of windows making the vehicle no longer wanted by
the insurers), which is where the deception with the windows comes in. I
assume they have their own definitions of what constitutes a campervan,
which probably varies between companies.

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Rich
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