Dealer requests daily insurance on loan car while mine is being serviced

[AbuG]

Booked my car in for rattling of roof and tapping noise. Next available is in 4 weeks.

Also they want £12 per day insurance for the courtesy car.... That's a first for me to be charged insurance from any dealer.

 

[kiltox]

Quite a few do this now actually, I was surprised the first time too (at a Renault dealer, courtesy car was a Twingo, it was terrible ?)

 

[MAS]

Booked my car in for rattling of roof and tapping noise. Next available is in 4 weeks.

Also they want £12 per day insurance for the courtesy car.... That's a first for me to be charged insurance from any dealer.

I was asked £20 a day insurance by Glyn Hopkin East London for courtesy car, when I took my car for BMS update

 

[Mark Holmes]

I was asked £20 a day insurance by Glyn Hopkin East London for courtesy car, when I took my car for BMS update

Really I’d tell them to poke it...couldn’t you wait for the update to be applied.

 

[MAS]

Really I’d tell them to poke it...couldn’t you wait for the update to be applied.

I did not take it, waited for their call and went back to pick up the car.

 

[Mark Holmes]

I did not take it, waited for their call and went back to pick up the car.

Was this a same day service?

 

[notdodgy]

Booked my car in for rattling of roof and tapping noise. Next available is in 4 weeks.

Also they want £12 per day insurance for the courtesy car.... That's a first for me to be charged insurance from any dealer.

I had a courtesy car for a month.
It was covered by my own insurance (LV).
I had to show them the policy - fortunately I had it saved to google drive and I could show it on my phone. (In the section that describes your car).
If you don't have your own cover, then £12 is not unusual.

 

[AbuG]

I had a courtesy car for a month.
It was covered by my own insurance (LV).
I had to show them the policy - fortunately I had it saved to google drive and I could show it on my phone. (In the section that describes your car).
If you don't have your own cover, then £12 is not unusual.

I thought most policies don't cover anything in connection to the motor trade.

 

[kiltox]

I thought most policies don't cover anything in connection to the motor trade.

Driving a courtesy car you’ve been given isnt motor trade use.

 

[notdodgy]

My policy has the words

"Comprehensive cover will apply to any car loaned or hired to the policyholder
and any named driver under our Recommended Repairer Service or by a garage
or vehicle repairer while the vehicle in 1a) is in for service, repair or MOT.

It's worth checking - other sections do state exclusions for hire cars and that you are covered 3rd party driving other cars.

 

[Deleted member 2158]

Aviva also cover a courtesy/loan car - third party i think.
I have used this a number of times over the years.