Renting a garage

[tdog7]

Hi all,

I live in London and am thinking of renting a garage to keep my TVR in. Problem is, any available ones are usually around a 15 minute walk from my flat. The idea would be that once I had a garage, the TVR would live there, and I would purchase a suitable shed type vehicle for day to day use in London, and leave the TVR for weekends. The only thing I'm worried about is that doing this may mean I use the TVR less and less, due to it not being parked just by the flat. On the plus side the TVR would be dry and protected from the elements during this delightful summer, and the winter to come.

So has anyone done such a thing, how did it work out?


thanks

[standardman]

Buy a cheap folding bike. bike goes in TVR boot job done.

[Garlick]

I've done exactly the same thing!

My TVR is garaged 15 mins from home so I either leave 15 mins earlier and have a nice stroll over, or I take my push bike and leave that in the garage to ride home later.

This weekend we were going away for a wedding so I popped down 25 mins before we left, drove home to collect the Mrs and pack the luggage and reversed that process when we returned.

Lexus is used daily, TVR less frequently, but 15 mins is no bother. If it was two hours it might be a different matter. Honestly, it's not that hard

[saaby93]

How do you insure a remote garage? Or is not worth the bother?

[Gruber]

I've done it for the last 8 years or so. Keeps the P&J nice and safe, and isn't that big a ballache in the grand scheme of things. Even easier now I've got the little Vespa: scoot over to the garage, car out and scooter in, jobs a good'un.

[Garlick]

saaby93 said:

How do you insure a remote garage? Or is not worth the bother?

I only leave the car there (bar the few hours the bicycle is there) and the garage address is on the policy as where the car resides.

[bungle]

Garlick said:

I only leave the car there (bar the few hours the bicycle is there) and the garage address is on the policy as where the car resides.

Is this seen as more or less of an insurance "risk" than leaving it, say, on the road at your main address?

I wonder if insurers see a block of lock-ups (say) as being prone to break-ins and therefore as a high risk?

I'm thinking of getting an older car that I can put on classic insurance and park in a lock-up garage near my house (about 10 mins away). Quotes are cheap (based on my actual address), but I'm not sure how they will perceive a lock-up and whether the previously cheap quotes will rocket? And what's the address on the policy? "The lock-ups down the end of xyz street"?!

[Garlick]

bungle said:

Garlick said:

I only leave the car there (bar the few hours the bicycle is there) and the garage address is on the policy as where the car resides.

Is this seen as more or less of an insurance "risk" than leaving it, say, on the road at your main address?

I wonder if insurers see a block of lock-ups (say) as being prone to break-ins and therefore as a high risk?

I'm thinking of getting an older car that I can put on classic insurance and park in a lock-up garage near my house (about 10 mins away). Quotes are cheap (based on my actual address), but I'm not sure how they will perceive a lock-up and whether the previously cheap quotes will rocket? And what's the address on the policy? "The lock-ups down the end of xyz street"?!

My rented garage is in the same postcode as my house and in addition the garage is situated in a residential area too.

With three padlocks on the door I wondered if I might get a premium reduction, but it actually stayed the same as when parked on a driveway in the same area (I moved house and lost the drive, hence renting the garage).

[saaby93]

I've wondered/worried about doing this too
Typical building isurance doesnt seem to want to touch a lock up. They ask will the building be unoccupied for more than x days in y weeks. Over 3 months and they dont want to know.
So is the answer to insure the car at the garage address and dont worry about insuring the garage?
If its made of asbestos and brick it wont burn much anyway

[nagsheadwarrior]

I keep some of my cars in storage and some at home on an alternating basis, the insurance company just goes off the postcode of the highest risk area either home or storage, in fact even the cars which are shown as primarily living in storage are priced the same as they would be kept at home as the home address is a slightly worse postcode than the storage place.

[tdog7]

Thanks for the replies people. I'll be keeping my eyes open for a nice garage to rent.

[Dreamspeed]

Move out of London, Buy a house with a garage next to the Buttertubs Pass; TVR problem solved!

[SEE YA]

Hello found this for you may help?

http://www.parkatmyhouse.com/uk/garages/london/?gc...

[Richie Howard]

where in london are you?

get on the waiting list with your council. they work out to be about £11 a week.