Are there any online car insurance companies which allow you to print out the insurance certificate or a cover note as soon as you have set it up online? I want to do this so I can get car tax right away. Is a cover note ok for getting road tax?
Any car ins. companies that allow you to print out insurance cert or cover not?
Aug 30, 2005
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Yes. Mike.
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Yes. Mike.
Aaargh! I went through this last week. Confused.com gave me 2 good quotes (for a change) for my new toy Mondeo: its4me.co.uk and Swintons.
its4me.co.uk are fully online so I tried them. First try I made a booboo
*but* then it wouldn't let me print the cover note anyway - NP says they, we'll post it. I needed it that day, hence going with them... They cancelled that policy so I could do it again. Lots of re-entering data later, same problem - couldn't print it. They can't email me the PDF I should have printed - 'policy', 'data protection act', etc.So I cancelled that one too and phoned Swintons in town. Got an extra £5 off the web price, and picked up the cover note on the way past to pick up the car 10 minutes later.
So I spent about an hour trying to get it done online and 10 minutes tops getting it by phone!
Just waiting to see if its4me take the money or not *twice* now....
Well that's a new one on me? T.P.F.T £254.98 Fully comp £208.91
Probably the policy excess - Mine is cheaper on fully comp. too
I've also noticed that most insurers offer cheaper quotes if you add the Mrs / partner as a named driver on the policy.
Yeah, just don't tell them you are a PROFESSIONAL driver!!. I Drive around
150,000 km a year in my truck, accident and conviction free and just for a laugh, i tried a few insurance co's stating different professions. Guess who pays the most! yes you've guessed it, the HGV driver. This system sucks and as I can only drive for so many hours per week BY LAW, (unlike the ford sierra reps who drive 300k a year 12-15 hours a day with no increase in premiums) I feel utterly ripped off!
^^^^^^ In what century exactly?
Why would a rep care about his premium? His employer would be paying it!
i used to do around the 80,000m per year mark but now i'm in the office, my years of driving have ocme in usefull as i've got 5 years ncd from my company (and i'm insured by them too :) )
yes, but you see some won't insure you if you are a certai age, you need to be able to drive to keep your job, any sort of accident will put you in the s*it if it's going to be problomatic, no mater who you are insured by or who pays the premium, you get the s*it for it if youhit someone at the end of the day my mate was lumbered with a £7k bill for an accident that wasn't even his fault so it's not all that great i've got a driver going to court on friday for an accident which the police said was his fault and they are doing him for speeding in a seperate case (though i'm not too sure how that is going to work) but he's going to lose his job when they find out he was doped to the eyeballs on the green stuff
40 in a 30 into the back of a stationary vehicle waiting at a junction bent the vito fairly well and punted the crv a proper fair way across the junction and up onto the roundabouti'll let you kow how much they fine him
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