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Does car mileage have any effect on insurance?

20784 · 2018-10-03 15:21:05

Buying a car with mileage like 219,465 km. Diesel 1.7 car,. Will this make my insurance go high? Or mileage has nothing to do with Insurance?

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03-10-2018 4:21pm

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Buying a car with mileage like 219,465 km. Diesel 1.7 car,. Will this make my insurance go high? Or mileage has nothing to do with Insurance?

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#2 03-10-2018 4:26pm
bazz26

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I don't think my insurance company has ever asked over the years what mileage was on my cars. It doesn't really have any relevance to them anyway because if the car has a mechanical failure they won't cover the cost of repair anyway.

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#3 03-10-2018 6:57pm
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Don’t be giving them ideas!

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#4 03-10-2018 9:41pm
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colm_mcm wrote: »

Don’t be giving them ideas!

I don't understand what you mean

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#5 03-10-2018 9:43pm
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They usually ask you what mileage you will be doing when you are looking for a quote, the NCT now prints a record of the mileage on your NCT disc/cert so if you were to say you do 10k km a year and you actually do 50k km a year they would know from NCT disc should there be a claim.

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