Mertin
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Registered: 12th Oct 05
Location: Scotland
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My cars going in for a service tomorrow and im travelling 60 miles for it and its going to take a few hours. The garage offered me a courtesy car, but then asked my age and cant give me one as im under 21 unless my own insurance covers it
Read my documents and dont see anything apart from driving cars that are issued by approved admiral repair centres.
Going to phone admiral tomorrow and see if il be covered to drive the car, you reckon my insurance will cover it? 19 and fully comp insurance
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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Nope, they'll swap your insurance over to it for a day for a fee though.
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antnee
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Registered: 30th Dec 07
Location: Cov Drives: Clio 197
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You can get temp insurance on your own policy, which can cover it
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Mertin
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Registered: 12th Oct 05
Location: Scotland
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Il need my car later that day and it'll only be for a few hours while I kill time waiting for my car to get serviced. Il just get the bus into town or have a look at car garages if I cant get insured on the car without paying
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deano87
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Registered: 21st Oct 06
Location: Bedfordshire Drives: Ford Fiesta
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I would have said http://www.tempcover.com which is fantastic but you have to be 21 
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AndyKent
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Registered: 3rd Sep 05
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Despite buying a brand new car from my local dealer a couple of years back they still wouldn't give me a courtesy car which happened to cost far less than the one I bought because I was under 21.
I ended up just taking the day off work as I could walk home from the dealer when it was serviced.
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
Location: Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire
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SEAT have given me a couple of Courtesy cars now?
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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Skoda wouldn't give me a courtesy car without getting it insured myself.
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
Location: Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire
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I've had an Alhambra and an Arosa
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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I think it depends on the garage you go to, the one I used was terrible.
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Matt L
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Registered: 17th Apr 06
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Iv never had a courtesy car but then again never taken my car to a dealer 
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
Location: Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire
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quote:
Originally posted by John
I think it depends on the garage you go to, the one I used was terrible.
Mine are part of the SMC group, the excess is £1000 on the insurance.
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deano87
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Registered: 21st Oct 06
Location: Bedfordshire Drives: Ford Fiesta
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There was no ruling brought in with regard to courtesy car insurance.
Murketts BMW in Huntingdon used to have its own 'fleet' of Fiat Seicento courtesy cars or something shit like that. Anyway, you drove them away and didn't need to sort insurance. Then a funny rule came in (not sure whether it was company policy or not) and you had their own cars, but had to organise insurance.
When I had my crash at 19, I couldn't drive the car so was picked up by recovery, taken straight to repair garage and drove away in a Fiesta courtesy car. All I had to do was sign a piece of paper saying the car was in the condition it was.
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