Stijn!!

[Jim Richards]

Azzy, would Shannon's cover your new car here?

[GH85Carrera]

Azzy, see if you can find a local American National Insurance company agent. That is the company I use. They insure my house and my cars. I have stated value insurance for my 911. I am restricted to 5,000 miles of average driving per year. However if I go off on a trip there is no limit.

Anyway my 911 only cost around $200 per year. I have My El Camino and my wife has her Infinity.

The other choice to try is USAA. They are a top notch company aas well. Give them a call. I bet either of them will be better than Progressive.

[azzarule]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Azzy, see if you can find a local American National Insurance company agent. That is the company I use. They insure my house and my cars. I have stated value insurance for my 911. I am restricted to 5,000 miles of average driving per year. However if I go off on a trip there is no limit.

Anyway my 911 only cost around $200 per year. I have My El Camino and my wife has her Infinity.

The other choice to try is USAA. They are a top notch company aas well. Give them a call. I bet either of them will be better than Progressive.

I just wanted to make sure that now I have paid for the car, and it is being transported to MD that it was covered. I am now getting off the couch and will now have to get an MD drivers license, I have to do the whole thing again, as if I didn't have any license ever, but, I am looking at the loophole which might allow me to trade in my French license for a MD license, without having to do a practical and a theory test, , but I still have to do the alcohol and drug course. Just can't see the need for me to have to be like a 15 year old after having my license for almost 40 years and having current Australian, French and International licenses.

[GH85Carrera]

Don't ever expect logic from government bureaucrats. They want you to take the test to make their jobs necessary.

[azzarule]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Don't ever expect logic from government bureaucrats. They want you to take the test to make their jobs necessary.

Yes I know, but when you think of other things they could be spending their time on, well!

oh yeah I have a Military drivers license as well!!!!!

[GH85Carrera]

Back when I moved to Oklahoma I had to get a Oklahoma drivers license. I had a valid drivers license from Alabama. I was 25 years old and driving my 74 - 914 2.0. I took the written test with ease. I handed it to a trooper and we walked to the parking lot. He looked at me then looked at my 914 with the roof off looked back at me and asked how long I had been driving. I told him 9 years, and 5 years in the 914. He mumbled this is stupid to himself and signed off on my driving test.

[azzarule]

also the whole insurance thing here I do find a bit weird, in Oz we have third party which is part of the registering of the vehicle, and is compulsory, it covers everyone in case of injury in the event of an accident.

Here most of the cost of the insurance for a motor vehicle is the liability personal injury type insurance, and , oh yeah, you want to get collision and comprehensive coverage as well, well that's extra, very strange, the quotes I did on line for a heap of insurance companies were all the same information, and not one of the initial quotes actually covered the car, they were all just for liability insurance, wtf. I am ranting I know, but the whole insurance liability lets sue them mentality is just annoying me. I just want to insure my ride!

Had to go back and look at the insurance that the hubby got for the Durango, and realized that it only covered the liability portion, no insurance for the car at all.

[azzarule]

so another 450+ last night to get that, and the policies are only 6 months, we don't have that its a normal 12 months in Oz

[nynor]

the insurance co. won't take an international license?

[azzarule]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Back when I moved to Oklahoma I had to get a Oklahoma drivers license. I had a valid drivers license from Alabama. I was 25 years old and driving my 74 - 914 2.0. I took the written test with ease. I handed it to a trooper and we walked to the parking lot. He looked at me then looked at my 914 with the roof off looked back at me and asked how long I had been driving. I told him 9 years, and 5 years in the 914. He mumbled this is stupid to himself and signed off on my driving test.

Nice, maybe I will get that lucky.

In MD if I had another license from another State in the States, I could swap it, but as it is from OZ I can't I have to start again. You would think that 4 years driving in Europe would prepare me for everything!! Luckily in France they let people from the Australian Capital Territory swap their ACT license for a French one, but people from OZ other states had to do the written drivers test and the driving practical test, in French, 100 questions, not a.b.c.d. ones either, and if you didn't read and speak french fluently you were stuffed. Some people never got fluent enough to pass the test, and couldn't drive, well legally anyway, as they had failed the french test. Some even went to the UK, got a UK drivers license then came back and swapped it for a French one, that was okay apparently, strange what political arrangement/agreements have been made.

Like AI said I may be able to swap my French license for a MD License that's what it says on the DMV website, bit strange, but I am going to try it and see how I go, the thing is if you fail the test you can't continue to drive, and that's the scary bit, what if I get a fail!!!!!!! It might happen, I could choke!!!!! Even fail the practical, might tell the guy to get stuffed (its been known to happen).

It has taken me about 20 minutes to write this bleet as I keep getting interrupted by trick or treaters, lovely little midgets, some being carried by their parents, a cute pair of tiny weeny little twins, so cute.

[azzarule]

Originally Posted by nynor

the insurance co. won't take an international license?

Nope!

[Jim Richards]

They must've heard about your driving.

[GH85Carrera]

Azzy really call USAA. just google them. They do everything on the phone. Top rated company.

[slodave]

D, an International license is just a piece of paper translating the different license classes, has your picture and signature. It's a companion to your normal license.

[Rick V]

Kids hate me

[slodave]

Boo!

[Outback Porsche]

haha Rick. Looks like fun

Sounds like you've got yourself a real root with the insurance/license azzy. Hope it sorts out.

Got a giggle out of this, thought I'd share

[Rick V]

Too funny Jeff!!!!!!

[azzarule]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Azzy really call USAA. just google them. They do everything on the phone. Top rated company.

Not for me, I am not a member of the US Military (or coast guard, or oceanic something or other), they don't recognize Allied Military members whether their active or retired or not.

I have gone with Progressive (the least path of resistance for the time being), will have to continue to look around for a better deal, after six months, but I didn't want the car to be totaled sitting on a truck and not covered. At least (fingers crossed) I will have USA "history" to show I am a good driver and have had previous US insurance.

Sometimes you just have take the hint and go with the flow.

Doing a similar battle with Health Insurance that we were signed up for by the Embassy. All the other spouses can go to the chiropractor, and its covered on the CIGNA health plan, the health fund pays. Me because I am a military member (albiet on this posting just a spouse) I am not eligible for chiropractic services (the military docs don't think chiropractors work) so they won't come to the party for my bills, I said okay I am not military, I am a spouse!!! Still fighting that one.

sigh, I think I will just go put my head in the oven, no wait, I'll wait until after Marilyn arrives, . No rush

[azzarule]

Showed hubby the pictures and he says he is starting to think that us Porsche owners are a bunch of weirdos, well hell yeah!!!!!!!!