Originally Posted by
Metric1
I think I had a similar problem with my new car.
We have this little piece of paper that basically has your name, car make/model/year/vin/insurer and expiry date and you keep it with your registration in the glove-box. When I bought my new car I bought it from a Honda dealer, so it came with temp tags and a month’s insurance from the dealer. I wanted to get it sorted ASAP because the insurance was on my other car and the dealer insurance was ****. So I called and the insurance company wouldn't accept my temp tags because they said it had to have proper tags from the DMV.
So, I had to take the tags off my old car, take them to the DMW and get the information switched so that my old car had temp tags and my new car had the real plates. The girl thought I was trying to pull a fast one because the car was the same, same color, just different year and different VIN, she even asked for a bill of sale, which I had!
The excuse "I'm just waiting on the tax" may be true, but it sounds fake, it's like "I'm just waiting for my licence to come" - it might be true for 5% of people, who get stopped, but the other 95% are trying to pull one over on the cops, so it ruins it for the other 5% of honest people. (If you get what I'm saying)
I think you should argue that you have been greatly inconvienced by this whole thing, and they are wasting valuable coverage time. I'll use Adam for an example of this, his policy is for 2700 pounds a year, divide that by 365 days in a year = 7.40 pounds a day, multiply that by 4, the amount of time with out a cover letter, that’s 29.6 pounds WASTED! That’s like $60 US MONEY, I'd be ******* PISSED!