Thread: Insuring a County with a 3.9EFI/Auto modification

Originally Posted by BilboBoggles

Hello All,

Has anyone had any experience with insuring a County V8, which has had a later model disco 3.9 and Auto Transmission installed. The other modification is that the rear diff is a disc brake Defender Salisbury, and the front diff is a 6pin heavy duty diff.

So anyone tried to insure something like that?

Hi Mate I had a LS1 Gen3 and a 4L60E auto in a TJ jeep, just sold it and I had it insured with Shannons cost me about 57 per month with a agreed value of 22K

hope this helps

Steve

Have a similar agreed value with Shannons for my 90 and 120, both of which are modified.

The 90 sounds similar to your County (3.9 EFI V8, with an R380 instead of an LT77). With the 120, I increased the agreed value after turbocharging and intercooling it. They wanted details of upgrades, and since I did all the work myself, I sent in photos of the build as proof. They were happy with that and offered a higher agreed value than I had in mind.

HTH

Bojan

Thank you for the responses - Did Shannons ask for an engineering certificate?

It would make things a lot easier if you have one. Most, if not all insurers will want a car to be road legal before they insure it, so you should get a blue slip for it.
Of course if you dont tell them, and they find out, they have grounds to refuse a payout under the terms of your duty of disclosure.