[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":599},["ShallowReactive",2],{"cms-blog-how-ai-helped-me-add-my-mitsubishi-delica-d5-to-uk-insurance-databases":3,"cms-blog":20},{"title":4,"excerpt":5,"slug":8,"rawDate":9,"date":10,"modified":11,"content":12,"readingTime":13,"acf":14,"tags":17,"author":18,"featuredMediaUrl":19,"featuredMedia":19},"How AI helped me add my Mitsubishi Delica D:5 to UK insurance databases",{"raw":6,"plain":7},"\u003Cp>Earlier this year I bought a 2007 Mitsubishi Delica D:5. The D:5 has been sold in Japan since 2007 but was never officially sold in the UK. Mine is a Japanese import, which means that while it is perfectly legal and registered with the DVLA, getting insurance for it can be a little more complicated […]\u003C\u002Fp>","Earlier this year I bought a 2007 Mitsubishi Delica D:5. The D:5 has been sold in Japan since 2007 but was never officially sold in the UK. Mine is a Japanese import, which means that while it is perfectly legal and registered with the DVLA, getting insurance for it can be a little more complicated […]","how-ai-helped-me-add-my-mitsubishi-delica-d5-to-uk-insurance-databases","2026-11-06T13:00:13",["Date","2026-11-06T00:00:00.000Z"],["Date","2026-11-06T00:00:00.000Z"],"\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this year I bought a 2007 Mitsubishi Delica D:5.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003Cpicture>\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fcdn-cgi\u002Fimage\u002Fformat=auto,quality=80,fit=scale-down,width=577\u002Fhttps:\u002F\u002Fcms.joebailey.xyz\u002Fmedia\u002Fa578605549e9f90022436bc58701717979359356da1f3aa88087f09dfe4db88f\u002Fa578605549e9f900-1000062815-577x1024.jpg\" srcset=\"\u002Fcdn-cgi\u002Fimage\u002Fformat=auto,quality=80,fit=scale-down,width=480\u002Fhttps:\u002F\u002Fcms.joebailey.xyz\u002Fmedia\u002Fa578605549e9f90022436bc58701717979359356da1f3aa88087f09dfe4db88f\u002Fa578605549e9f900-1000062815-577x1024.jpg 480w, \u002Fcdn-cgi\u002Fimage\u002Fformat=auto,quality=80,fit=scale-down,width=577\u002Fhttps:\u002F\u002Fcms.joebailey.xyz\u002Fmedia\u002Fa578605549e9f90022436bc58701717979359356da1f3aa88087f09dfe4db88f\u002Fa578605549e9f900-1000062815-577x1024.jpg 577w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1200px) 1140px, 100vw\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" width=\"577\" height=\"1024\" class=\"wp-image-222\">\u003C\u002Fpicture>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The D:5 has been sold in Japan since 2007 but was never officially sold in the UK. Mine is a Japanese import, which means that while it is perfectly legal and registered with the DVLA, getting insurance for it can be a little more complicated than a normal UK-market car.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I first insured it I ended up using a specialist insurer. Most mainstream insurance websites either didn’t know what a Delica D:5 was or wouldn’t recognise the registration at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I could have just accepted that as one of the quirks of owning a grey import.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, I asked AI why.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Going down the rabbit hole\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I started asking ChatGPT how UK insurers actually know what car is attached to a registration number.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I assumed there must be some central database somewhere, but I’d never really thought about where the data came from or who was responsible for it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After quite a bit of research, we ended up at Thatcham Research and its Vehicle Risk Data.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thatcham maintains the ABI vehicle data used throughout the UK insurance industry. Vehicles are assigned an eight-digit ABI code which gives insurers and other systems a standard way of identifying a particular vehicle derivative.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That immediately gave us a possible explanation for my problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe insurers weren’t refusing to recognise the Delica because it was an import. Maybe the vehicle simply didn’t exist in the dataset their software was using.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next question was how to get it added.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mitsubishi UK couldn’t help\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our first thought was that the data probably had to come from Mitsubishi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I’d recently been speaking to a particularly helpful dealer about getting a windscreen for the Delica, so I asked whether they could escalate the insurance database issue to Mitsubishi UK.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately, Mitsubishi UK’s answer was basically what you’d expect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The D:5 is a grey import. Mitsubishi UK never imported it, never supplied one to Thatcham for testing and doesn’t officially support the model in the UK.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fair enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At this point it would have been very easy to assume we’d reached the end of the road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, I went back to ChatGPT with Mitsubishi’s response and we started looking at the problem from the other direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rather than asking Mitsubishi to add the car, could the owner ask Thatcham directly?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Asking Thatcham\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I contacted Thatcham’s Vehicle Risk Data team and explained what I was trying to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their response was surprisingly simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They already had listings for imported older-generation Mitsubishi Delicas, but \u003Cstrong>no Delica D:5 listings existed at all\u003C\u002Fstrong>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More importantly, they confirmed that an ABI code request can come from:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003Cli>the vehicle manufacturer\u003C\u002Fli>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>the importer\u003C\u002Fli>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>the owner\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only requirement for an imported vehicle is that it must already be registered for use in the UK.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That was the breakthrough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I didn’t need Mitsubishi Japan to send technical information to Mitsubishi UK. I didn’t need an importer to do it. I didn’t need to convince an insurance company to manually create a vehicle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I could just submit my own car.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Adding the first D:5\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thatcham asked me for fairly basic information about the vehicle, including the registration, model, original registration date, trim, engine, transmission, number of seats and whether it was 2WD or 4WD.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fortunately, I already knew far more about the car than anybody reasonably needs to know.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mine is:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>Mitsubishi Delica D:5\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cbr>\u003Cstrong>2007\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cbr>\u003Cstrong>2.4 petrol\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cbr>\u003Cstrong>CVT\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cbr>\u003Cstrong>4WD\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cbr>\u003Cstrong>8 seats\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cbr>\u003Cstrong>G-Premium Package \u002F Roadest\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The VIN also identifies the exact classification as \u003Cstrong>LTXHZ\u003C\u002Fstrong>, which corresponds to the G-Premium Package\u002FRoadest 4WD CVT.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I sent everything over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few hours later I got this response:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ABI code 34195253 has been created for your vehicle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Fblockquote>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That was it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Something that had been making the car difficult to identify throughout the UK insurance industry was fixed with an email.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thatcham told me that the new code would first be published on 16 October and warned that it could then take several weeks for insurers to absorb the listing into their own systems.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Did it work?\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>Yes!\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few days after the ABI database was updated, comparison websites started recognising my registration as a Mitsubishi Delica D:5 rather than an unknown vehicle or an Outlander.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Initially, that was as far as it went. The car was correctly identified, but neither comparison website would actually provide any insurance quotes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That’s now changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Compare the Market is returning genuine insurance quotes, including \u003Cstrong>Admiral at around £600 per year\u003C\u002Fstrong>. That’s a perfectly reasonable price for an imported Japanese vehicle, and importantly, it’s being quoted as a Mitsubishi Delica D:5.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Admiral also recognises the registration correctly through its own website.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I’m still insured with Adrian Flux until April, so I haven’t switched insurers just yet. But when renewal comes around, I now have the option of moving the Delica onto my existing Admiral MultiCar policy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What started as a frustrating problem with an incorrectly identified imported vehicle has turned into a proper solution. The Delica is now recognised by the UK insurance database, comparison websites can identify it, and mainstream insurers are actually willing to quote for it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>So yes, it worked.\u003C\u002Fstrong> And hopefully, getting this particular Delica added to the database will make life a little easier for other owners importing the same model.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What about everyone else’s D:5?\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My ABI code doesn’t suddenly cover every Delica D:5.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The D:5 has been around for nearly 20 years, and there are a ridiculous number of combinations of engines, trim levels, drivetrains and seating configurations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even the early CV5W alone has classifications for G, G-Power Package, G-Navi Package, G-Premium Package, M, C2, Chamonix and Roadest variants, with different 2WD, 4WD, seven-seat and eight-seat configurations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rather than trying to catalogue all of them myself, I posted what I’d discovered in the UK Delica Facebook groups.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Any owner with a UK-registered D:5 can contact Thatcham and provide the details of their car.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hopefully, as more owners submit different variants, the D:5 gradually becomes properly represented in the UK insurance databases.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That should make life easier for existing owners and people importing them in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This is the sort of thing I wouldn’t have done before AI\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The interesting part of this isn’t really the ABI code.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It’s that without AI I probably wouldn’t have even tried to fix it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few years ago I would have gone to Compare the Market, discovered the car wasn’t listed and concluded:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cem>“It’s a Japanese import. That’s just how it is.”\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I might have done a few Google searches, found lots of pages about specialist import insurance and then called Adrian Flux or another specialist broker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What I almost certainly wouldn’t have done is research the data architecture behind the UK motor insurance industry, work out who maintains the vehicle records, investigate how ABI codes are created, contact Mitsubishi, interpret their response, find the right department at Thatcham and then work through the process of getting a new vehicle derivative created.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The problem wasn’t impossible before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All of the information technically existed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The problem was that the amount of effort required to find and understand it wasn’t really proportionate to the problem I was trying to solve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That’s where I’ve found AI particularly useful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It can research the boring bits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I could ask a question, get enough information to ask a better question, give it the response I’d received from Mitsubishi or Thatcham and then continue from there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It also remembered the ridiculous amount of information I’d already gathered about the car, including its chassis code and Mitsubishi classification, so I didn’t have to start every conversation from scratch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It wasn’t always right either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our initial assumption was that Mitsubishi would probably need to supply the vehicle data to Thatcham. Mitsubishi UK quite reasonably told us they couldn’t because they never sold the D:5 here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So we changed direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That’s quite different from simply asking an AI a question and blindly copying the answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It became much more like having someone alongside me to investigate the problem with.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lowering the barrier to doing slightly ridiculous things\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Software has done this for years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A problem that would once have needed a custom server can now be solved with a Lambda function. Something that would have needed a bespoke application can sometimes be solved with a spreadsheet and an API.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think AI does something similar for research and administration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It lowers the amount of effort required to investigate something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That makes projects worthwhile that previously wouldn’t have been.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Getting a 19-year-old Japanese MPV added to an obscure insurance industry database is a pretty good example.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was no financial incentive for me to spend hours learning how the UK insurance industry’s vehicle data works. I already had insurance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was just annoyed that the car didn’t exist when I typed the registration into a comparison website.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But because AI made the research so much quicker, the threshold for saying \u003Cem>“I wonder if I can fix that?”\u003C\u002Fem> became much lower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And somehow that ended with the Mitsubishi Delica D:5 getting its first ABI listing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003Cstrong>ABI code 34195253.\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A tiny and incredibly niche achievement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I’m quite pleased with it.\u003C\u002Fp>",8,{"project_url":15,"github":15,"icons":16},"",[],[],"Joe",null,[21,129,253,367,471,578],[22,29,41,52,63,74,85,97,109,119],{"title":4,"excerpt":23,"slug":8,"date":24,"modified":25,"readingTime":13,"acf":26,"tags":28,"author":18,"featuredMediaUrl":19,"featuredMedia":19},{"raw":6,"plain":7},["Date","2026-11-06T00:00:00.000Z"],["Date","2026-11-06T00:00:00.000Z"],{"project_url":15,"github":15,"icons":27},[],[],{"title":30,"excerpt":31,"slug":34,"date":35,"modified":36,"readingTime":37,"acf":38,"tags":40,"author":18,"featuredMediaUrl":19,"featuredMedia":19},"Scaling ECS on PHP-FPM workers instead of CPU and memory",{"raw":32,"plain":33},"\u003Cp>Our ECS services scaled on CPU and memory, which meant traffic spikes took the platform down before a new container ever started. 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