When you really DO need your car insurance
Car insurance is something of a peculiar product. It’s something that we are legally required to buy and many people if they were given the choice probably wouldn’t bother to buy it at all.
However, we’ve just had a guest who really did need it and the money that he’ll get back from the insurance company will be pretty substantial.
What happened is that his car caught fire as he was driving along the motorway in France yesterday afternoon. That’s not really something that you expect to happen, is it? Anyway, the towing would have been several hundred euro, the transport to his hotel over EUR 100, the hotel another EUR 80 or so and it looks like the repairs will cost well over EUR 1000. Oh, and then there’s the not so insignificant matter that he’ll probably end up having to fly home and then back to collect the car as this is a holiday week and so it probably won’t be repaired for at least another week.
So you can get your money’s worth sometimes!
One thing to watch when you’re buying your car insurance online is that there are a lot of optional extras that can be included in your policy. Obviously most of the time you’ll not need them but if you hit a situation like that above then they are very, very handy to have. For instance, because this is the peak holiday season, he’d have had quite a lot of difficulty to get booked into a hotel himself but it was his insurance company who organised that for him
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