Car insurance quote oddities

[Snoopy]

I overcame the THW's insurance problem by insuring her ONLY when she is at home for the vacations.
Just ring my insurers (L&V) and organise insurance cover on her mother's car once she arrives and to end at midnight the day before she gets on the train back to uni ~ Instant cover for £23 a week.  Since this year she expects to be home only for 6 weeks in total (rest of vacations she is on "Field Trips" abroad) I am not spending munny to insure her when she is not driving ~ Additional cost to me will be around £140 for fully comp etc over the year and she gets to maintain her no claims for future use.


Well ~ There's no point in getting older if you don't get craftier.

[Barman]

Good plan...

TBH I don't remember paying astronomical sums for Miss Piggy's insurance when she was at Uni a few years back - even after she wrote off the first car we bought her... 

I guess this is all as a result of EU regulations and ambulance chasing whiplash claims...?

[Snoopy]

Growler did mention "Sheilas Wheels" insurance. They are, of course, part of "esure" who are a large insurance group owned by HBOS banking group so never likely to be a cheap option despite their adverts.

[Snoopy]

Good plan...

TBH I don't remember paying astronomical sums for Miss Piggy's insurance when she was at Uni a few years back - even after she wrote off the first car we bought her... 

I guess this is all as a result of EU regulations and ambulance chasing whiplash claims...?

Well I could see no point in paying to insure the kid when the car is in North Wales and she is sitting in lectures 230+ miles away in Surrey.

[Barman]

Good plan...

TBH I don't remember paying astronomical sums for Miss Piggy's insurance when she was at Uni a few years back - even after she wrote off the first car we bought her... 

I guess this is all as a result of EU regulations and ambulance chasing whiplash claims...?

Well I could see no point in paying to insure the kid when the car is in North Wales and she is sitting in lectures 230+ miles away in Surrey.

Quite right...

Ours went off to Oxford Brooks so we bought her a Nissan Micra so she could bring her washing home at weekends... 

And then another when she broke it... 

[Darwins Selection]

I overcame the THW's insurance problem by insuring her ONLY when she is at home for the vacations.
Just ring my insurers (L&V) and organise insurance cover on her mother's car once she arrives and to end at midnight the day before she gets on the train back to uni ~ Instant cover for £23 a week.  Since this year she expects to be home only for 6 weeks in total (rest of vacations she is on "Field Trips" abroad) I am not spending munny to insure her when she is not driving ~ Additional cost to me will be around £140 for fully comp etc over the year and she gets to maintain her no claims for future use.


Well ~ There's no point in getting older if you don't get craftier.

I hadn't heard of that, sounds very sensible.

[Snoopy]

Thanks DS.

Actually there are a number of companies (findable on the www) that offer temporary, short-term insurance cover but they proved to charge about twice as much as my own insurer.

[Barman]

Growler did mention "Sheilas Wheels" insurance. They are, of course, part of "esure" who are a large insurance group owned by HBOS banking group so never likely to be a cheap option despite their adverts.

Bummer to spend millions advertising Sheilas Wheels only to have some unelected EU commissioner render your entire business illegal....