Temporary car insurance issues.

[gtidriver]

Hi, I'm looking for some advice, please. Our Son has had a licence for 1year and a few days and a year's no claims bonus. His car is scrap as it'll fail an MOT on a rusty subframe. I have a company car, which my wife doesn't use as parking is a premium at work. I've tried so many different temporary Insurance companies with no luck, five companies have surgested tempcover, they wont even cover for an hour let alone a month, Vergo was a yes at a quite resonable £200 for five weeks cover but then i reread the t&c and its not available for company cars as they wont offer business use, it wont be for business use but computer says no and theres no person on the phone number to chat too. Any other ideas.??? The AA which the car is insured with is over 25s, so that's out.

[Hustle_]

Why does he need to motor for five weeks? Surely he will either no longer have a car or a replacement car will be bought?

Borrow somebody else's car? Strategic hire car use?

[gtidriver]

Five weeks was the longest, I think, it just means we can be more selective in his car purchase. The spare car has sat on my drive for the last month as it's not needed, but can't be returned till November.

[OddCat]

Why not just buy a new car now rather than in 5 weeks time?

Or just keep the MOT failure car at home, insured, and scrap it once he gets a new car transferring the insurance over at that point?

Otherwise, I think I must be missing something....

[gtidriver]

I have a small budget of around £3500, He currently has a Mercedes A150, and I want to get the same or a B150. There are loads of cars for sale, but when folk can't even bother to wash them before taking photos, I sort of shy away from them. What else can't they be bothered to do??

We drove from Ramsgate to Luton airport yesterday, b160, lovely photos, mot history not too bad, but the mayonnaise was thick and gooey the tyres were swapped from Contis to unknown, and the aircon was blowing lovely and warm. I can't be bothered, hence why I want to find the right car and not rush.

[OddCat]

Not sure I'd be busting a gut to buy a baby Merc when there are things like this available for just a tiny bit more: