Alpina B10V8S insurance problems

alexisonfire · 21 Aug 2011 at 19:51

The only real bad point about the car is the saggy leather on the drivers seat, anybody got any tricks for tightening it up? Car needs a good clean inside and out too

Will have to get the rotary on it at some point.

PMKeates · 21 Aug 2011 at 20:01

Do love Aplina vehicles. Good residuals, too; though hard to move on.

Fr0dders · 21 Aug 2011 at 21:39

re: the seat base.

Send CCS an email and see what they think can be done :

http://www.classiccarservices.co.uk/

mjt · 24 Aug 2011 at 14:39

Awesome. Just so full of epic win [insert internet meme]!

[TW]Fox;19883631 said:
Because I don't like the styling as much as I do the Sport, and you get the SE interior touches like the hard steering wheel (Though I think the V8S finally got the proper Sport wheel) and lighter headlining.

It still has the hard wheel. Notice the lack of thumb rests.
It's because there's no way BMW would let Alpina use M parts. They are competitors, after all

OllyM · 24 Aug 2011 at 14:41

mjt said:
It still has the hard wheel. Notice the lack of thumb rests.
It's because there's no way BMW would let Alpina use M parts. They are competitors, after all

The V8S does have the Sport wheel, and it even has the M5 wing mirrors!

mjt · 24 Aug 2011 at 14:44

OllyM said:
The V8S does have the Sport wheel, and it even has the M5 wing mirrors!

It's not the Sport wheel. It doesn't have the thumb rests.
It's the 3-spoke SE wheel but with a solid vertical spoke as opposed to the hideous double thing.
It's a mongrel wheel

OllyM · 24 Aug 2011 at 14:46

Oh, I see what you mean now - you're right. How weird!

Darkman · 24 Aug 2011 at 15:32

Iamzod said:
The insurers you are using must be useless if they can't look this Alpina up as this is what we'd do, either that or the staff member you've spoken to is an idiot.

I had the same problem when I bought my B5 back in 2006. Every insurer I called (and I called quite a few) had no knowledge of the B5, including the BMW insurance company and Direct Line. I basically had to explain what the car was based on and the better insurers set it up on their system and provided a quote, some while I waited, others got back to me later. I've not had this problem in the last year or two though; most insurers have the Alpina as a subset of BMW.

I've also had the issue with the VINs when I got it MOT'd last time as the BMW one is obviously not valid and the Alpina one is in a different place. The person doing the MOT couldn't quite get his head around that :rolleyes:

I've also had the problem where the number plate is not registered on any site online for insurance or tyres. You have to manually enter the make and model everywhere. I'm not sure if it's because it's classed as an import (BMW only covered it for 2 years warranty instead of the usual 3).

It's a pain but that's what you get for buying something a bit different I guess.

B10 looks great OP. I'm sure you're dad will be very happy with it.

[TW]Fox · 24 Aug 2011 at 15:38

OllyM said:
The V8S does have the Sport wheel, and it even has the M5 wing mirrors!

Nope, that's not the better sport wheel. Mjt is correct.

ubersonic · 24 Aug 2011 at 16:05

Dr. Pain said:
So there is nothing stopping you purchasing a used car with a full years tax and running around in it without having to insure it on a policy?

A bloke round here got done for that a couple of years ago, he bought a Skyline GTR for his [9 year old] daughter and used it under his DOC from his Mondeo's policy, turns out its classed as fraud (if they can prove that its really your car and your extracting the urine).