Thread: AA --- not

Originally Posted by disco2hse

Responding to a special offer from AA (that's Automobile Association, not the other one) for 5 grand worth of free gas if I get a car insurance quote from them, I called them up with both landies

Going through the process of answering questions to confirm id, etc. (been a member for 21 years) we get onto the veehickils, first one then the other.

She says "What is the year, make and model?"

I says "1983, Land Rover 109"

She says "Oh, is that a Toyota Land Rover, or a Nissan Land Rover"

Coughing, says I (slowly) "No it's a Land Rover"

Some bits omitted here but then she says "Land Rover isn't listed, I'll have to type it in"

Honestly, good help is soooo hard to find. And I'd like to take a whip to the developers of their system, or whip 'em around from the back of the 109

On a lot of the online car sales sites LR is often under Rover or even RangeRover.

Originally Posted by loanrangie

On a lot of the online car sales sites LR is often under Rover or even RangeRover.

In my time at Leyland Truck & Bus we registered them as a Leyland

Strictly speaking, I suppose that they should be listed either as they were at the time of manufacture (Rover to 1967, Leyland to 1989, then Landrover) or as shown on the registration (both mine 1970 and 1986 are registered as Landrover).

Certainly it would be reasonable to expect any insurance company to have in their database at least every model registered in their home state, although my experience suggests that your expectations would be disappointed.

John