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Going for aircare later today...

Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 6:10 am
by andre66
wish me luck!
Andre

Re: Going for aircare later today...

Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 12:21 pm
by jaggedfish
LUCK!!!

Shouldn't need it tho.

Re: Going for aircare later today...

Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 4:49 pm
by andre66
you're right, no problems at all.

Re: Going for aircare later today...

Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 4:56 pm
by konadog
Happy day! :-D :M

Re: Going for aircare later today...

Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 9:34 am
by freestyler
andre66, does your van shoot out the standard puff of black smoke when accelerating? I'll be going for my aircare soon too and am a touch worried.

Re: Going for aircare later today...

Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 11:13 am
by marsgal42
freestyler wrote:does your van shoot out the standard puff of black smoke when accelerating? I'll be going for my aircare soon too and am a touch worried.
Don't be. These are old-school old-tech mechanically injected diesels. They all smoke a bit under acceleration. Diesels do this. AirCare know this.

...laura

Re: Going for aircare later today...

Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 9:11 am
by glenn
I was worried too! My insurance expired and I drove around for a day without realizing (so I'm the reason we all have to buy uninsured motorist protection). I still can't believe how idiotic this was - the autoplan broker says it happens all the time :shock:

The only hitch I had at aircare was that I didn't know the engine size. I found the marking inside the engine cover (2456 cc) but everything was in Japanese so they didn't want to use it. They had me leave the bay while the looked it up somewhere. They found it, it's 2.5L officially.

Tests always make me nervous - but it passed no problems.

One thing that bothered me about the whole experience was the "is it a right hand drive" question from ICBC. Is this their idea of a study - and why don't they already have this info?

Re: Going for aircare later today...

Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 2:49 am
by andre66
glenn wrote:I was worried too! My insurance expired and I drove around for a day without realizing (so I'm the reason we all have to buy uninsured motorist protection). I still can't believe how idiotic this was - the autoplan broker says it happens all the time :shock:

The only hitch I had at aircare was that I didn't know the engine size. I found the marking inside the engine cover (2456 cc) but everything was in Japanese so they didn't want to use it. They had me leave the bay while the looked it up somewhere. They found it, it's 2.5L officially.

Tests always make me nervous - but it passed no problems.

One thing that bothered me about the whole experience was the "is it a right hand drive" question from ICBC. Is this their idea of a study - and why don't they already have this info?
When i renewed my insurance the broker noticed that when i first insured it last year that the previous broker had not stamped it! It even says something about the insurance not being valid if it is not stamped. I guess i was driving around without valid insurance for the last year. Definitely will be looking for the stamp in the future.
Andre