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None of us like to think it may happen, but in the event of an accident in your vehicle, would you know what to do? How to make a car insurance claim If you’re involved in a road traffic accident, you will need to prepare to make a car insurance claim – or, at the […]
Do you have or did you think about arranging GAP (Guaranteed Asset Protection) insurance when raising the finance to buy your car or motorcycle? Either way, you will have discovered that many GAP insurance providers – under pressure from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) – have agreed to temporarily suspend the issue of any new […]
Perhaps because it’s a legal requirement, arranging or renewing your car insurance can seem like a merely routine chore. In fact, the agreement between you and your insurer involves much more than that – essentially based on mutual trust. For that trust to work, you each rely on full disclosure of all the relevant information: […]
Statistics published by the Department for Transport on the 28th of September 2023 show that there were 135,480 casualties in accidents on British roads last year. That figure represents a welcome 3% reduction in the number of such casualties compared with 2019. Nevertheless, with more than 320 billion miles currently travelled by vehicles on our […]
Before you know it, the winter will be well and truly upon us – at times making the roads more than a little treacherous. Throughout the winter months, of course, driving conditions are likely to prove more challenging than usual – what with rain, sleet, snow, and ice, with the dusk falling earlier as the […]
Electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming more popular with each passing year. More and more drivers look to them as a means of reducing the carbon footprint of their transport – and, of course, to save money on the petrol they’d otherwise have to buy. As that population of EV drivers spreads wider, a new issue […]
The annual cost of owning a car has shot up by 17% – nearly £3,600 – in the wake of escalating petrol prices and the cost of car maintenance. You cannot do much about the price of petrol at the pumps or maintaining your vehicle, but there are several ways of potentially reducing your motor […]
The uninitiated might be surprised to discover the intensity of the debate that rages over just what makes a classic car. Classifications such as veteran (any vehicle made before 1918) or vintage (between 1919 and 1930) may be precise enough, but the definition of a classic car remains altogether more vague. Unless you are an […]
Did you know that classic car insurance is frequently cheaper than the premiums you pay for standard motor insurance? Frequently, this is less a case of classifying the car as a classic – a definition on which there is in any case no universal agreement – but the way in which such vehicles tend to […]
It is that time of the year once again when temperatures may plunge at any moment, leaving freezing conditions that see our roads covered with ice. Although it comes around on an annual basis, it might nevertheless be helpful to review some of the dos and don’ts when driving in icy weather: Do you need […]
