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21 Aug 2009, 15:54 (Ref:2525620) | #1 | |
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Insurance for non UK resident?
Any tips on getting a non UK resident listed as the main driver of a car without incurring a huge surcharge? She is currently living in Copenhagen but is over every few weekends. Bought a little Seicento for her yesterday but the insurance is a mare. I really want to get her listed as the main driver so she can start earning NCB before she comes here permantly hopefully around Christmas. Other reason os - should it all go wrong and she has a ding - I'll not have to declare it on my own policy...
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21 Aug 2009, 16:03 (Ref:2525624) | #2 | ||
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You may find that if she has an existing policy then any NCB may be transferable.
When I moved to Ireland the insurance company was happy to give me 5yrs NCB when I could produce a letter from my employer saying I'd been on the company insurance scheme and hadn't had a claim. |
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21 Aug 2009, 16:12 (Ref:2525628) | #3 | |
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She hasn't driven (apart from twenty minutes in the rental car on our recent holiday) in 15 years since she returned from a year in the States. So we know we'll be starting with zero NCD either way - a) she has no NCD to bring b) I have a million years NCD but it is tied up in another (commercial vehicle) policy. With that in mind it makes sense I think to list her as the main driver. But then the insurance companies seems to want everyone to be a permanent resident in the UK.
Anyone know if it is possible to do what I want to do without breaking the bank on a car which only cost a grand? |
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21 Aug 2009, 17:14 (Ref:2525656) | #5 | |
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It's in the terms and conditions... first line in the case of many of those I have seen.
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22 Aug 2009, 18:29 (Ref:2526212) | #6 | |
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Best I could do in the end was to get a policy in my own name and add her as a named driver. She's not covered until she is a permanent resident here which kinda defeats the object of getting the bloody car in the first place. But at least we don't need to change policies when she does come. Went with fully comp as, strangely, it was only a few pennies dearer than 3rd party after I'd added my old man to the policy. Never realised that adding extra drivers might reduce the cost!
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Sadly I think that now she never will take her test so I shall probably remain her taxi driver for a long time. |
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22 Aug 2009, 20:11 (Ref:2526246) | #8 | |
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I think it's discrimination! I guess they think female and/or older drivers are safer options (as proven by my little bump on the M25, I am sure!) and, if we are sharing a car with them, they presume they are having a calming effect...
Incidentally, adding my old man and his clean driving record saved fifty quid. Adding K - who has not driven in fifteen years since she left the US (and never in Europe!) - added just four quid to the total! I feel somewhat gutted at how much it cost me to insure such a poxy little car!! |
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22 Aug 2009, 21:25 (Ref:2526270) | #9 | ||
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Is the policy with Admiral or Elephant?
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22 Aug 2009, 21:32 (Ref:2526274) | #10 | |
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It's with some company called Bell
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22 Aug 2009, 21:49 (Ref:2526282) | #11 | ||
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I think they're part of the other two. I use them both alternately for my daughter's insurance, it gets even cheaper with two other named drivers then starts to go up if you stick a third on.
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22 Aug 2009, 21:55 (Ref:2526287) | #12 | |
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Yeah found that when I thought I'd stick my mum on too! Fifty quid discount for adding my old man, adding K cost four quid, adding a third named driver (my mum - identical driving record as the old fella) added 75 quid more to the bill!
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23 Aug 2009, 00:08 (Ref:2526337) | #14 | |
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They don't. Until she causes a ten car pile up on the M25. At which point they look into ways of not paying out... they really don't like to pay out.
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23 Aug 2009, 07:24 (Ref:2526440) | #15 | ||
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Very true of Bell, Admiral, Elephant. My daughter rear ended a BMW on the M1 a few years ago. She was with Admiral and when I came to renew the insurance with Elephant they wanted to know how much the claim was. Upon speaking to the claims man he told me it had been £3.6K, I said the impact wasn't that bad and eventually he sheepishly fessed up that the damage was about £700 and the rest was car hire charges from the 3rd party so I expect they kept ****ing about delaying authorisation.
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