The GoSkippy Car Insurance Blog
Provisional drivers often get a tough deal when it comes to car insurance. Without proven experience or a no claims discount, the worst habits of driving are assumed and provisional car insurance policies are priced accordingly.
New drivers are more likely to make a misjudgement and have an accident and so inexperienced or young drivers have to pay more for car insurance.
Taking your own car with you abroad on holiday can be a great way to travel, giving you the freedom to choose the time and pace of your travel and to pack as much as you like. Your insurance company will often cover you for European travel, making it easy to start exploring.
Here are a few things to consider to make sure you’re covered when driving abroad.
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Third party insurance is the minimum cover you are required to have by law and is a cheap way to make sure you’re covered when out on the roads.
It’s often the cheapest out of the different insurance policies available – comprehensive, third party fire and theft and third party only – but does it offer you enough? Each person will have to decide if the level of cover offered to them suits their needs.
We wrote last week about stupid car thieves who were charged after taking photos of themselves in the stolen vehicles.
Well it seems that the latest lot of thick thieves don’t read the news after it was revealed that another gang posed for incriminating pictures.
If you are going to do the crime you have to be willing to do the time, or so the saying goes.
Maybe that should be amended to -if you’re going to do the crime, don’t take photographs which can be used in evidence against you.
We all know that buying and selling houses can be a tricky business but for one couple it has been driving them insane.
Tom Wardle and his wife Shirley say that they are unable to sell their house because cars keep crashing into the garden wall outside – to be precise six vehicles in under three years!
Beautiful cars have all the characteristics that provoke love in humans – fantastic curves, a deep voice and an elegance that is hard to describe. Here are five sexy cars that are sure to get the pulse racing, whether you see them in the showroom or are lucky enough to take them for a drive.
“Guns don’t kill people, rappers do” - Goldie Looking Chain
There’s now proof that drivers don’t drive badly, it’s all down to the drum and bass.
A Bristol motorist caught driving erratically was "high on drum and bass" a court has heard.
25-year-old delivery driver Aaron Cogley ran two red lights after a series of sharp turns which caused him to be pulled over by police.
Drivers have been misled on the amount of miles they are getting to the gallon (MPG), according to a new study.
In tests carried out by What Car?, which describes itself as Britain’s biggest and best car buying guide, there was as much as a 25% discrepancy between official government MPG and actual MPG. The study looked at over 500 models of new cars which have recently arrived on the road.
Check your balls is the most important message to come out of the It’s in the Bag Fundraiser we recently held at GoSkippy offices.