How do you test drive a car if you haven’t got car insurance?
I’ve a heads up for you, Living reader: at some point in the next few months I’m going to be performing a U-turn.
That might sound like absurdly advanced warning of a simple driving manœuvre – everyone else just uses hazard lights – but it’s a more general U-turn to do with me and cars: I’m buying another one.
In my defence, it’ll be a much-loved classic, rather than an everyday runabout. The problem with buying a popular classic, though, is that you have to do a lot of looking before you find.
So I recently found myself in a hire car, setting off for a date with a promising example. And remembering, slightly too late, that I’d need car insurance if I wanted to have a test drive when I got there.
Running late, I pulled over and called a broker who I knew specialised in the kind of car I’m after. I explained my need, and got a reasonable quote for a year’s cover which, I was assured, I could cancel for a refund if I decided not to buy the car.
I didn’t decide to buy, as it turned out, but when it came to cancelling the insurance my refund came minus a broker’s fee and a smaller surcharge for the insurers themselves. I was ?
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Originally posted 2009-01-15 14:31:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
