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Now, I appreciate that this will interest very few of you, but those few
adventurers amongst you may find this interesting. (Roman, Clive, Renate et
al).
As most of you know, my 80 is registered 'offshore' , a ruse which suits my
often itinerant occupation and helps avoid the old communist mindset of
former socialist countries in which I work. (Requirement to be a registered
resident to register a car locally with the local secret police/KGB;
needing proof of earnings, copy of school graduation certificate (!), proof
of pension plan, medical exam certificate, negative aids test, employer's
name, proof of bank account, proof of health insurance, name of dog, etc.
etc.) Plus the inconvenience of meeting their 'technical' testing
requirements and suffering more frequent roadside stoppages for their
regular recreational hassle for cash.
Its made my life a lot easier anyway, but one small drawback is the issue
of insurance. One can get a foreign registered car insured in most
countries where that car is kept, and a car which of course crosses that
country's international border at least every 3 months to keep it all
kosher. (But cars don't have passports for them to stamp at the border).
Mine is insured by a local company in Sarajevo. But the big drawback is
that no insurer can issue a green card in these circumstances, not even the
better known British ones - better known for odd requirements that is. One
has to buy a 'pink card' border insurance certificate for each country that
one enters. This can be expensive, but also very inconvenient as one has to
use the larger crossings that have an insurance office, an office that is
usually open during common office hours, thus restricting times that one
may want to cross. Most of the border crossings here in the Balkans have
one man and his dog, who are more concerned with collecting bribes from the
cross-border cheese and fake cigarette and CD smugglers than anything else.
The appearance of a foreigner quite disturbs them and their schemes !
But I got whisper of an enterprising Austrian insurance broker who
teamed-up with a local insurance house to help people in this situation. I
have since investigated this and they do indeed offer a 12 month green card
insurance policy for third party with passenger injury cover. They have
even offered me a 30% no claims discount in recognition of the discount I
already get on the policy I have with the Sarajevo company.
The policy covers all Europe to the Russian Federation border, that is all
the 25 EU members states plus -
Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Albania, Andorra, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Belarus,
Croatia, Moldova, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia/CrnaGora, and Ukraine.
If anyone is seriously interested I can provide more info.
Cheers
Jon
'92 HZJ80 ex UN surplus in Bosnia - where Spring has arrived !
adventurers amongst you may find this interesting. (Roman, Clive, Renate et
al).
As most of you know, my 80 is registered 'offshore' , a ruse which suits my
often itinerant occupation and helps avoid the old communist mindset of
former socialist countries in which I work. (Requirement to be a registered
resident to register a car locally with the local secret police/KGB;
needing proof of earnings, copy of school graduation certificate (!), proof
of pension plan, medical exam certificate, negative aids test, employer's
name, proof of bank account, proof of health insurance, name of dog, etc.
etc.) Plus the inconvenience of meeting their 'technical' testing
requirements and suffering more frequent roadside stoppages for their
regular recreational hassle for cash.
Its made my life a lot easier anyway, but one small drawback is the issue
of insurance. One can get a foreign registered car insured in most
countries where that car is kept, and a car which of course crosses that
country's international border at least every 3 months to keep it all
kosher. (But cars don't have passports for them to stamp at the border).
Mine is insured by a local company in Sarajevo. But the big drawback is
that no insurer can issue a green card in these circumstances, not even the
better known British ones - better known for odd requirements that is. One
has to buy a 'pink card' border insurance certificate for each country that
one enters. This can be expensive, but also very inconvenient as one has to
use the larger crossings that have an insurance office, an office that is
usually open during common office hours, thus restricting times that one
may want to cross. Most of the border crossings here in the Balkans have
one man and his dog, who are more concerned with collecting bribes from the
cross-border cheese and fake cigarette and CD smugglers than anything else.
The appearance of a foreigner quite disturbs them and their schemes !
But I got whisper of an enterprising Austrian insurance broker who
teamed-up with a local insurance house to help people in this situation. I
have since investigated this and they do indeed offer a 12 month green card
insurance policy for third party with passenger injury cover. They have
even offered me a 30% no claims discount in recognition of the discount I
already get on the policy I have with the Sarajevo company.
The policy covers all Europe to the Russian Federation border, that is all
the 25 EU members states plus -
Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Albania, Andorra, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Belarus,
Croatia, Moldova, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia/CrnaGora, and Ukraine.
If anyone is seriously interested I can provide more info.
Cheers
Jon
'92 HZJ80 ex UN surplus in Bosnia - where Spring has arrived !