mechanic took car home without permission?

vaio

A fiver for two mirrors?

I remember the days when you could get two mirrors, a trip to the cinema, 6 pints and fish & chips on the way home and still have change from a fiver.

mikey72

If it helps, I remember buying an entire car for £25.

Hammyman

BAA1 wrote: »

Sorry, I cannot believe a Motor Trader Policy that only costs £500 per annum would cover the trader to drive any car and also cover damage to all those cars, it sounds far too cheap to me.

There are online sites for motor trader car insurance, having just done a quick dummy quote, one such site came back at just over £2,500 which sounds much closer to the mark, and even that is cheap, I did not bother to look at the detail of what was covered, but it was Fully Comp for car values upto £50K

The company was Roadrunner or something similar. Covered any vehicle he had on stock, any in for repair and covered customers for test drives.

proactive

vaio wrote: »

A fiver for two mirrors?

I remember the days when you could get two mirrors, a trip to the cinema, 6 pints and fish & chips on the way home and still have change from a fiver.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

colino

Please dream on if you think you can have a repair garage with sales cars and get change out of £10k for full insurance.

dacouch

Hammyman wrote: »

The company was Roadrunner or something similar. Covered any vehicle he had on stock, any in for repair and covered customers for test drives.

Roadrunner normally excludes theft / damage cover within 1/4 mile of your business premises (Not home) for vehicles parked up. It's designed for motor traders working from home. If you have bona fide business premises you have to pay a very big extra premium to cover damage to the vehicles at the premises

proactive

be interested to know what happened to the op's car

Sally_A

colino wrote: »

Please dream on if you think you can have a repair garage with sales cars and get change out of £10k for full insurance.

Colino - I wish every one of my customers would read your post, believe it, and not give me an ear bashing when I apologise it's gone up from £4800 to £5300 this year.

Road_Hog

Sally_A wrote: »

Long gone are the days when you bought a pair of mirrors for a fiver from Halfords and screwed them in to place.

Halfords sell very few parts for cars these days (as I think you probably know). You can still buy brake pads, but the discs seem to have disappeared.

If you want to buy a, tent, mountain bike, sat nav, I could go on, then you're in the right place. Car maintenance has gone out of the window.