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I think a lot of insurers are hitting the pipe recently. My wife's Fiesta was £170 to insure last year. This year the cheapest I could find was £200. Now she has an extra years no claims and the car is a year older and worth less so logically it should have been less than £170. As regards to the postcode lottery I wonder if the new map of crime which shows the amount of car crime will have any bearing on the matter? Bury is a s&*8hole apparently!
Anyway regarding increased power in a turbo car. If the mbc is at 15psi more than stock then the car could potentially have at least a 50bhp increase. Without putting it on a dyno how do the insurers guess what final bhp the mod will give? I could easily turn my mbc down to provide 2 psi of boost and therefore give my car less power than stock.
Does the bhp increase have to be permenant to qualify for a performance gain?
Guess I should not (probably cough) put in a new ECU with the words "chipped" written on it !
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