Re: Suggestion for Advanced Driving Course

[IcedKiwi]

fatboy18 said:

How much do these advanced driving courses cost? I have recently been asked if I have any Advanced driving certificates when getting estimates for car insurance. Im trying to work out whether the cost of the instructions and test is worth shelling out for to reduce motor insurance?

The IAM course is £149 including copy of the materials, (observed runs with your local group,) test fee and 1st year membership for the IAM and local group. The RoSPA course is cheaper.

But I believe the general wisdom is that ticking the box for "I have an Advanced driving certificate" won't reduce your motor insurance by any significant amount. However hopefully the skills you learn will allow you to build up more NCD and keep it for longer hence giving you savings over the long run.

[p1esk]

IcedKiwi said:

fatboy18 said:

How much do these advanced driving courses cost? I have recently been asked if I have any Advanced driving certificates when getting estimates for car insurance. Im trying to work out whether the cost of the instructions and test is worth shelling out for to reduce motor insurance?

The IAM course is £149 including copy of the materials, (observed runs with your local group,) test fee and 1st year membership for the IAM and local group. The RoSPA course is cheaper.

But I believe the general wisdom is that ticking the box for "I have an Advanced driving certificate" won't reduce your motor insurance by any significant amount. However hopefully the skills you learn will allow you to build up more NCD and keep it for longer hence giving you savings over the long run.

...and of course there is the potential for a non-monetary benefit in the form of enjoying your driving more and feeling that you're making a better job of it. If you have an interest in the subject at all, that should count for something.

[PhilAsia]

waremark said:

On a page about track driving, this is all I found about the road:

"ROAD: If you take one of our road sessions first you will see how road skills can be further honed and track skills can feed back to great advantage into your daily drive. If you want to use your own car and take trackday insurance, having us instructing you for the day will usually reduce your premium (Give us a call), so that the instruction cost is, in effect, significantly reduced."

This sounds a fundamentally unsuitable place to go to if you want find out how to exploit a high performance car on the road - which is 95% about roadcraft, 5% about car handling (just put numbers in so people can have an argument about them!).

"which is 95% about roadcraft, 5% about car handling (just put numbers in so people can have an argument about them!)" - made me 97.354% chuckle...