Saluki
World class procrastinator
- Location
- ...Norwich over the water.
On Friday my beloved tatty Rover Streetwise went bang.
It threw all its coolant over the A14 and stopped working. The upshot is that I need a nice new engine as the old one is knackered.
We went off today to see our mechanic to see if an engine is viable or if he has a different car that we could have (in our budget) instead. Turns out that this morning he took a Rover Streetwise in part ex. Identical model to the one that just died. It has 50k less on the clock, the bodywork is infinately better and it has a good service history as our mechanic has been looking after it for the last 8 years over its last 2 owners, as they lived in the village. He's going to get the £50 of fuel from the old Rover so I can put it in the new one. He's also taking off my 2 lovely new wheels with their new tyres off and putting them on the new Rover and taking the brand new exhaust off so we can store it for when we need it in the future. He will then weigh it in for scrap and has already knocked the weigh in cost off the price of the new Rover.
My insurance company won't insure the new car, even though its the same make, model and colour as the original car. They don't know what the group is and the underwriters and not in until tomorrow afternoon. They can give me a new policy though (the old one has 6 months to run). They want £42 a month instead of £16 for the original car (only the reg number has changed here remember) plus to cancel the old policy is £192 payable today or £205.97 if I pay by installments.
Its only £96 for the rest of the year by installments so I am not sure there the extra ton comes from.
Am I allowed to name and shame the insurance company on here?
It threw all its coolant over the A14 and stopped working. The upshot is that I need a nice new engine as the old one is knackered.
We went off today to see our mechanic to see if an engine is viable or if he has a different car that we could have (in our budget) instead. Turns out that this morning he took a Rover Streetwise in part ex. Identical model to the one that just died. It has 50k less on the clock, the bodywork is infinately better and it has a good service history as our mechanic has been looking after it for the last 8 years over its last 2 owners, as they lived in the village. He's going to get the £50 of fuel from the old Rover so I can put it in the new one. He's also taking off my 2 lovely new wheels with their new tyres off and putting them on the new Rover and taking the brand new exhaust off so we can store it for when we need it in the future. He will then weigh it in for scrap and has already knocked the weigh in cost off the price of the new Rover.
My insurance company won't insure the new car, even though its the same make, model and colour as the original car. They don't know what the group is and the underwriters and not in until tomorrow afternoon. They can give me a new policy though (the old one has 6 months to run). They want £42 a month instead of £16 for the original car (only the reg number has changed here remember) plus to cancel the old policy is £192 payable today or £205.97 if I pay by installments.
Its only £96 for the rest of the year by installments so I am not sure there the extra ton comes from.
Am I allowed to name and shame the insurance company on here?
