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I have a car that is fully taxed but not insured. The car is parked on a private driveway and always has been since the insurance ran out in April. It's taxed until November but the DVLA has now issued...
What is a Cat D repair?
What is black box insurance? Do I buy my own ‘black box’ or does the insurance company supply it?
I'm thinking of fitting a dash cam to my 2016 Honda HR-V but the large sensor housing on the windscreen does not allow me to fit it behind the rearview mirror. Any ideas about the next best place?
We sold our car to a garage and it was then involved in an accident. We were in the middle of changing insurers for our new car and the claim has gone against us even though we were not the owners of the...
You mentioned that, for insurance purposes, fitting a hard wired dashcam could count as a vehicle modification. If unannounced, it could then invalidate car insurance. Is it not time that insurance companies...
The quotes to insure my Nissan Leaf are generally much higher than those to insure my Skoda Kodiaq. Is this a disincentive to buying electric cars and could it put people off buying them?
My daughter, who's 23, is thinking of buying a car and she would really like a convertible. She has a Fiat 500 cabriolet and finds it underpowered, though she might find the same of any car she can afford...
Trying to get through a narrow gap to get off a garage forecourt, I scraped my car against the bumper of a large lorry. No damage at all to the lorries bumper, but I have a slight depression in the rear...
I’m after a performance car but I don’t want to pay ridiculous insurance premiums. Am I living in dreamland?