Wednesday, 10 April 2013

Insured *insert HUGE smile face here*

It has caused one big stressed headache since yesterday but I can safely say Miss Pug is insured, as of an hour ago.

Long story short, the pillocks who I was last with fed me with lies, telling me my no claims couldn't be transfered and 'recovered' if I went elsewhere.
Problem is, even without no claims and fully comp, it was £300 cheaper than they could do me for.
I got through to customer service today, asked if they had proof of my no claims, they do - and have sent them. So I went on with my way getting quotes from the likes of Money Supermarket and Compare The Market websites.
(For those who are interested, Money Supermarket returned much cheaper options).

The first cheapest company on fully comp, with my no claims was ''Sheilas wheels, model driver'' who wanted to play Big Brother with Miss Pug and me.
There's a tele-wotsit me-jig box they ''screw'' into the dash, which monitors your driving standards, you're braking distance and even the time of day you drive.
Should you speed, you apparently get fines from them (even if the police are not aware), should you be out past 9pm it can affect the policy prices.

I'm sorry, I don't do DRILLING HOLES IN MY DASH, nor this big brother bollocks, so made my way through the list.
Second cheapest (Motor quote direct) were incredibly helpful.

It turned out my previous insurance (last year) only had the car down as a 5 seater estate :shock: so I asked MQD if it came up as a 7 seater on their database, yes was the answer. We then got into a bit of conversation, he said 'I am sure Peugeot were the first to bring in a 7 seater estate weren't they?' I said I didn't know but Volvo came close I think. :oops:

Anyway, with that out the way I asked the question.
I couldn't remember the proper name: ''telematic box'' so I said 'Oh, do you install those telephone-wotsit, mejigs' his reply was 'Well I've never heard of those before, oh yes those - no we don't' I was like 'Ok, good I will go with you, no way is someone drilling holes in my dash' :shock:


So, in long and short, the car is finally insured. Costing an arm and leg but that's what you get for such a big engined car, a posh one at that lol.

Next thing is to conquer the abs screw, fit new sensor and to get her through her MOT (in Swindon, if you see us on our way, blown your horn, raise your hand) and then to go to Oxford DVLA to tax her. (Or I could ring DVLA and see how much a replacement V5 costs, and how long it would take to come).



Either way, one very happy girlie right here :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

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