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Quote: Originally posted by snowy747 on 02/10/2012

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Yep but if you have a car to sell that is still insured you can't transfer it to your new car to drive it home.

Ali

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That's right of course,  but this is what we've done when in this situation in the past with motorbikes - you just have to take out another policy untill you've got the other one sold.

Of course it costs - but we couldn't see any better option tbh. 

Yep !   Not sure about the NCD though  (thinks) OH will probably remember but he's in the bath ! ...  no doubt you're right though.   At any rate it didn't work out too badly for us.  We got some really good quotes & got the new vehicle insured for a great price with good cover on the policy.

Don't really see another way round it.  If anyone else does I'll be delighted to hear it as we'll probably be in this situation again soon.

Quote: Originally posted by lockie on 02/10/2012

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I have just got back from buying a car.I got some quotes via the registration and noted down the reference number needed if i liked the car.I bought it so rsng the insurer and got it insured before i came home,not hard to sort out if you do it this way.

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Yep..That's probably what we'd be doing..

(..it is actually what we'd thought of doing,prior to starting the thread...But I had assumed,wrongly, that there would be simpler ways, than having to "pre-set up" insurance for multiple vehicles...)

See Pepe,  there you go again - burstin' my bubbles !!

    .... been watching your thread hoping someone would come up with a better solution so we can benefit too - once we find the right van ! 

'Penny...I asked the question on SBMCC and apparently it's easy(and cheap) enough to just get "1 day insurance"....

I put a couple of "ordinary" van details into the "get quote" bit on here and they came back as 20 odd quid!...      http://www.dayinsure.com/

(..although no mention of "minibuses",so still not sure about my idea..)

EDIT: It seems that I may've got my hopes up prematurely....just had email back and it appears that the company linked to above, don't insure "minibuses",even if the seats were removed prior to purchase..because they do not cover any vehicle which has, quote "been modified after manufacture..this include performance and cosmetic"...

(...and B'Penny, I would think,strictly speaking,most campervans/motohomes would've been "modified" in some way since being "manufactured" as well..  )