Lost insurance documents

[Ropey]

I'm in southern poland and have lost all originals for my insurance and green card. left in hotel in Czech who the kind girls here have rung but cannot be found... I have copies on a USB stick...

I'm planning Poland - Ukraine - Romania - Bulgaria - Serbia - Bosnia - Croatia - Slovenia and home via DE/FR.

Anyone have any experience of getting by on just coipies? Any real issue at the border crossings into UKraine and onwards??

Or should I hold up here and wait for CN to post new ones out??

Thanks,
John

 

[Wapping]

Look on the bright side, at least you haven't lost your stickers!

Now to the practical bit.

Try printing the copies off your memory stick. Do they look OK? If so, why hang about, try your luck. If you have an accident you are still insured and the local peasants probably won't care too much. The worse that can happen is that they turn you back at the border. I am not sure I would know what the original of a Ukrainian insurance document looks like; penny to pound a the local Ukrainians will not know what an Irish one is meant to look like either. I showed a letter from a broker (it was my renewal quote) to a French policeman who seemed quite happy.

Progress on your journey and stop only if you have a problem.

Do you have someone back in Ireland who can receive the fresh doc's from the broker's and then mail / courier them to you further down the road.

DHL or a similar courier company are not too expensive, very quick and very reliable.

PS Your Irish broker will be pulling the 'originals' off a printer anyway..... best quality mind! If you can get them to save them as a good quality PDF and email them to a local with a good quality printer it may help and be quicker, too.

 

[MrIFan]

Try to find a copy shop/hotel whatever with a laser printer. Eastern European border guards often lick their finger before picking up insurance documents, especially green cards. If the ink smudges in their damp grip the questions start! DAMHIK

 

[gavinbell]

you have a PM!

 

[motoreiter]

another idea is to print out a color copy and laminate it. I really don't think you'd have a problem. Worst case you tell them its a copy--it doesn't make the insurance invalid.

 

[Ropey]

thanks for the replies guys... I spoke with CN and they reissued FOC, I work in the airline business so got it couriered out on the cheap... all good for Krakow departure tomorrow... Whilst sorting through my docs etc before the morning I realise I,m also missing the equivalent of my V5 for the bike.... and the real kicker I,ve no copy(this is a why i never realised it was missing)

What a plonker I feel right now.... I,m off for a beer and think about what to do... thinking of heading back across poland to Germanz-France-Italz mazbe.... ferrz not sailing from Roscoff till 4th June... haha

I tried for 2hrs to get to Auschwity todaz but everz road flooded and hotel staff tell me border crossings PL-SK are closed due flooding....

And this kezboard in the hotel is acting up aswell

Spankz holidaz and more frustrating in that its all mz own stuff-up... now wheres that bar that serves waz to much drink

 

[motoreiter]

What's a V5? As long as you have some official document for your bike with the VIN on it, you should be fine, I have crossed multiple borders like this. PM me for details.

 

[Racey]

What's a V5? As long as you have some official document for your bike with the VIN on it, you should be fine, I have crossed multiple borders like this. PM me for details.

I'm afraid he won't be able to PM you - as you are not a subscriber...

PM services are only available once you have signed up and paid I'm sorry to say...

Top left button is where you do the deed...

 

[Wapping]

What's a V5? As long as you have some official document for your bike with the VIN on it, you should be fine, I have crossed multiple borders like this. PM me for details.

The V5 is the vehicle's log book, issued by the UK government.

Amongst other things, it records the vehicle's legal owner, their address in the UK, the engine capacity, colour, date of first registration, VIN number, number plate number........

In short, it is a single sheet of paper, giving the vehicle's full details. Not many other official papers in the UK show a vehicle's VIN no.

 

[Ropey]

Yup thats the one.. I have nothing with the VIN on!! Nice day here in Krakow but gonna head west and South through Czech, bit of Slovakia and down to Slovenia that I read was good then maybe across to Route Napolean and upto Northern France for Normandy before ferry from Roscoff in 14days...

Does anyone know am I in legal doo-doo without official document for the bike? Should I report it to local rozzers to get a bit of paper or something??

Cheers,
Jr

 

[motoreiter]

OK, V5 sounds like US title and rego combined, I guess. Yeah, sounds like you're screwed. I've ridden quite a bit in Western Europe and have never been asked for any bike docs, but then I've never been stopped either. Will they ask for the V5 when you try to re-enter the UK?