Theory - Crashing into your own car

antodeco

Hey folks,
Juts wondering there. I cam close to reversing into my other car in my car. Luckily, I copped it on time. What would have happened if I wouldve? Would I still be able to claim insurance on both cars, despite the insurance being in my name on both (two seperate policies). Just a thought that popped into my head!

Mr Benevolent

No, you'd claim off the policy of the car you were driving. Trying to claim off both would be illegal and very noticeable.

Berty

Confab wrote: »

No, you'd claim off the policy of the car you were driving. Trying to claim off both would be illegal and very noticeable.

Not if they were with two different insurance companies. Many insurance companies in some cases will share the burden of the claims.

It would be nice to be a fly on the wall for that conversation with the assessor.

As long as you have an Insurable interest in both vehicles there is nothing untoward about it.

antodeco

Berty wrote: »

Not if they were with two different insurance companies. Many insurance companies in some cases will share the burden of the claims.

It would be nice to be a fly on the wall for that conversation with the assessor.

As long as you have an Insurable interest in both vehicles there is nothing untoward about it.

Which is exactly my thinking. Someone could easily scam two insurance companies for two new(er) cars if they were both shitboxes. Not that it would be of any major benefit, but it would be an interesting dispute between both.

trackcar

How could you claim for 2 newer cars if they were both ****boxes ???
the insurance companies will only pay out the market value of the car, and believe me there market value is not the same as the one used by the revenue to calculate VRT

antodeco

Sorry, what I mean is that you would have the claim amounts for both cars, and in turn, buy a new single car. Im not trying to do this, dont worry!

Top Dog

If you only damaged a car by reversing into it (presumably at low speed) would it really be worth claiming at all considering the higher renewal premiums you'd end up getting?

antodeco

Top Dog, Im not acutally claiming, dont worry! It just popped into my head earlier, so got me thinking.

Top Dog

I know mate, I saw in the OP where you said you nearly hit your other car.

I'm just looking at it from the angle that if you just reversed into another car, then the damage probably wouldn't be that huge, so would it really be worth the hassle and higher premiums to claim at all

Dades

Surely the policy on the car you were driving would have paid out on both cars.

Unless of course you did a hit-and-run.

corktina

that would fool them!!!!:D