Thread: Towing vs. Being over gvm

Originally Posted by Tombie

Excellent!!!!

They're the sort of tracks worth doing!

Note for those inclined to go there: These tracks are also ones you need to have specific 4wd insurance as it's not gazetted and many policies won't cover you...

Hmmm. Interesting comment. Given the number of vehicles that are swamped by the ocean and receive cover by insurance, where is the differentiation? I cannot see that a beach receives cover where this non-road doesn't. I'm not disputing it, but curious to understand the difference. After all, if I turn left onto some random track, how do I know it's covered or not?

Most beaches which allow vehicle access are gazetted.

You won't have insurance cover unless....
- you have full coverage insurance (anywhere in Oz that you're legally allowed to be)
- the track, trail, beach is gazetted.
- your policy specifies beach driving cover.

And yes - everyone should check because several companies don't offer beach cover in their policy.

As all other things, it's up to you to know where you are and if your covered.

Originally Posted by Tombie

Most beaches which allow vehicle access are gazetted.

You won't have insurance cover unless....
- you have full coverage insurance (anywhere in Oz that you're legally allowed to be)
- the track, trail, beach is gazetted.

As all other things, it's up to you to know where you are and if your covered.

My car is insured with a mob that rhymes with alliance. It is covered, as you said, anywhere it is legally able to be, so on a farm, if the owner gave permission, on a gazetted beach etc. Worth checking out. Pretty sure the "supermarket" policies don't offer the same cover.

Originally Posted by DiscoJeffster

Hmmm. Interesting comment. Given the number of vehicles that are swamped by the ocean and receive cover by insurance, where is the differentiation? I cannot see that a beach receives cover where this non-road doesn't. I'm not disputing it, but curious to understand the difference. After all, if I turn left onto some random track, how do I know it's covered or not?

Is the random track on a map? If so you're probably covered.

Is the random track on a map? If so you're probably covered.

Oombalgari is via the Carson River Track, I doubt that this is a gazetted road.

Sheesh. Reminds me of the hell of trying to drive on the Nurburgring back in the day. Was covered early on as insurance included EU from the UK, but after many crashes on the Nurburgring "road" they started to explicitly excluding it. At that point you couldn't drive on it as it was law to have insurance cover on all roads. It essentially became a non-gazetted Road from the UK insurance company perspective

Well shouldn't have driven on it, but many continued. No surprise up popped special insurance cover to cover you for weekend expeditions at the same cost of a year of normal cover

Originally Posted by Russrobe

We did the start of it last night with our tour guide Ronny Dahl

He was blasting me with a 100,000 subscriber give away promotion yesterday!

I did not realise he did tag along tours

Originally Posted by PerthDisco

He was blasting me with a 100,000 subscriber give away promotion yesterday!

I did not realise he did tag along tours

He only joins in on tag along tours though.
We met him to do the Oombalgari here in Home Valley. There's no access to the track to general public without him.

Our tag along tour with Explore W.A started in Broome 10 days ago...