Driving other cars (insurance I'm afraid)

Driving other cars (insurance I'm afraid)

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onomatopoeia

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Thursday 30th July 2015
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A friend (an actual friend that I've known for over 30 years) has asked me to help out with some driving in a couple of weeks. This will involve driving his car a couple of times. So, I have the driving other cars clause on one of my insurance policies (with Direct line), my question is at what point does a car turn into a van?

The car in question is the superbly named Mazda Bongo Friendee, which while it is described as an MPV, has glass in the rear and seats and a pop-up roof, looks, sounds and feels like a van. MY VW Caravelle also has (factory fitted) glass in the rear and rear seats, but I'd not class that as anything other than a minibus and don't let my friends drive it on DOC cover.

I'm going to put myself through the torture of talking to a call centre to get an answer that I probably can't rely on anyway, but am throwing the question out there in case anyone already knows.


onomatopoeia

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3,472 posts

218 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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Is a Mazda Bongo a car or a something else (e.g. a van)?