How many members are CRiS Registered ?

The reason for creating this survey is because many folk are finding it more and more difficult to get Eriba Insurance without having their van CRiS registered (CRiS only applies to UK owned vans).

We are currently looking around for insurance quotes and are facing the fact that because our van is elderly (1999), companies don't wish to quote as it is more that 15 years old or, because it's newer that 1992 then they require CRiS registration which as many of you will know, costs around £75 because we have a "foreign" van with a VIN number sequence that doesn't fit the CRiS system.

I think CRiS is probably good for newer Eribas, hence the reason for asking the age of your van on the survey, but for older vans, which are eminently less desirable, it just another added expense.

If anyone wishes to comment below then please go ahead.

Randa

My previous 4 Eribas have not been CRIS registered. I have been sent details for my current Eriba and may consider it, only because it opens up a greater number of possible insurance companies.

Colin

I wish I wasn't so jaundiced about this kind of thing.

From the CRiS website. The bold bits are what they say...

CRiS Registration is important for many reasons including:

So what are the other reasons? You say there are many including these, so you must think there are quite a lot more.

Proves you are the registered keeper.

Registered where? Oh yes, on your register. Should have worked that one out.

Helps manufacturer product recalls and warranty.

I can't see that you'd suffer unduly without that help, but there you go.

It assists the police and enforcement agencies with identification and recovery.

What other 'enforcement agencies' are there? The only one I can think of that might conceivably fit that description is the DVLA, but since caravans don't need licenses - or need to be on a 'register' - it couldn't be them.

Many insurance companies require a CRiS registration document before processing a claim.

Yeah, but many don't. How many is many? Some? Several? A lot?

It helps to ease a potential future sale.

Dunno. When I buy something that costs this much dosh I'm not thinking about future sales; I'm thinking about enjoying the thing I've just spent a ton of money on.

It is a legal requirement to have a caravan registered in some countries.

But I don't live in some countries. I live in this one, where it isn't a legal requirement.

I can't help thinking that the only real reason that 'Many insurance companies require CRiS registration' is because someone else does a load of irksome admin for them and they don't have to do it themselves. You can imagine the conversation when a CRiS person rocks up at the insurance underwriters' AGM to tell them what a good wheeze this is.

It'll probably come back bite me in the arse some day, but I think this is in the same category as a twenty quid extended warranty on a toaster that cost twenty five.

Clever marketing that plays on people's anxieties to generate business.

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It puts me in mind of the vehicle window etching kits that were so popular with car owners at about the same time that CRiS was created.

I wonder how many car owners still get it done to their cars and why are the Police not doing more to promote it ?

As I said before, it's not the £19.50 that I'd object to but I do object to paying almost 4 times as much for a foreign van and I also object to the fact that more and more Caravan Insurance Companies are insisting on getting it done AND not offering a discount for having it done.

Randa

Interesting survey so far. Thanks for your contributions.

What's really interesting is that of the 21 people who have contributed so far, only 18 of you own an Eriba

R

Quote: Randa france wrote in post #9

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Interesting survey so far. Thanks for your contributions.

What's really interesting is that of the 21 people who have contributed so far, only 18 of you own an Eriba

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Interesting response so far. Only 4 are with CRiS.

We were asked the question by Caravan Guard yesterday when we phoned to confirm and pay for our new Insurance yet last week at the quoting stage they were happy to just go with a VIN number. They weren't insistent however.

Randa