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Insurance premium increase when add reg plate

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  • halkineso
    halkineso Posts: 54 Forumite
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    edited 19 December 2025 at 8:30PM
    marlot wrote: »
    Are you an existing customer for the company who are quoting?
    Yes I'm existing customer I've liability insurance with them.
    Nodding_Donkey wrote: »
    Use the vin number to insure it
    All I can use is reg plate or choose from list (later you have provide reg plate anyway)

    [quote=[Deleted User];71639422]Is it a personal plate? Maybe they assume those owners have more money than sense?[/QUOTE]
    No its just regular
  • peter_the_piper
    peter_the_piper Posts: 30,269 Forumite
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    Do personal plates stand more chance of being vandalised etc, at least according to insurers database?
    I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
  • dacouch
    dacouch Posts: 21,636 Forumite
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    Fat_Walt wrote: »
    You need to give us a clue.

    Maybe your van isn't listed as what you think it is.

    Agreed, entering the plate could mean the DVLA data has the van as being younger than the OP is declaring the van as
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