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ainarssems 9th April 2023 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by steamship (Post 172654)
Does your insurance not have windscreen cover, whereby you only pay a small fee around £65, and it doesn't affect your premium? I had the rear window on the S8 replaced and the renewal price didn't increase.

It does not affect NCD but you still need to declare as claim for the following years, insurers does not say it openly but I strongly suspect it does raise premiums, why else would they be asking to declare. If it's expensive screen it's worth doing on insurance even if premium increase a bit. I had it done for Tesla as it would have been £1k. But for some older/ more common cars you can get aftermarket screen supplied and fitted by independent fitters for £140 or pay £85-100 excess to insurance company and likely also to get increase in insurance premium.

HPsauce 9th April 2023 07:25 PM

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Originally Posted by steamship (Post 172654)
Does your insurance not have windscreen cover, whereby you only pay a small fee around £65, and it doesn't affect your premium?

It does indeed, and that is the theory so I only paid the (small) excess, but I just don't trust them (Privilege)! :tuttut:

Interestingly I had the windscreen replaced on my Volvo during the early days of lockdown, which turned out to be rather a logistical nightmare as it had to go away to a specialist to have the cameras etc. recalibrated as part of the job. Full fat job; heated windscreen and lots of cameras and sensors up near the mirror.
But that cost me absolutely nothing! The windscreen excess is a sweet fat zero on that policy (Aviva) and it didn't go up at all, in fact reduced on renewal. :cool:

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Originally Posted by ainarssems (Post 172655)
It does not affect NCD but you still need to declare as claim for the following years, insurers does not say it openly but I strongly suspect it does raise premiums, why else would they be asking to declare.

It actually shows as a claim on my renewal paperwork; I arranged the work via my insurers so they are fully aware.

Nothing shows on the Volvo policy though, again all arranged via the insurers. :Confused:

Simon Wallwork 25th June 2024 12:20 AM

I had to pay Bulgarian Leva 950 this year. That's 475 Euro or about 400 Quid.

My S8 soldiers on.

steamship 25th June 2024 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Simon Wallwork (Post 175347)
I had to pay Bulgarian Leva 950 this year. That's 475 Euro or about 400 Quid.

My S8 soldiers on.

My VED which is due at the start of October will now be £405! That's up about 10% on last year, and seems to fall into the same group as the S8 in terms of CO2, yet mine runs on LPG which I'm supposed to get a 'discount' of £10 on.

pete-p 28th June 2024 10:30 AM

Just be glad ye aren't in the Republic of Ireland.

It's €2,400 a year to tax my 4.2 tdi Q7. :mad:

Simon Wallwork 10th August 2024 12:17 AM

Well, your country has gone a bit potty!


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