Public Transport Bound
So my parents have decided to buy a new car, which is a good thing. Unfortunately they’re replacing the K reg 1.4 Escort (The Fanfare) I drive with a two year old 1.5 Proton Wira. This means I won’t be insured on their new car so I was hoping to get insured on my Dad’s 1.6 Proton Persona which although it has a bigger engine is an older car so I thought that might be okay. My Mum phoned Frizzell to sort out changing the insurance policies, they took me and my brother off of her’s and changed her insurance to the new car. Then she asked them how much it would be for me (who’s 21 next month) to be on my Dad’s insurance. The man told her that there would be no extra charge for it. We were all quite happy about that.
However my Dad wasn’t happy about the quote they had given my mum so he got her to ring back to check it. They couldn’t do it cheaper they claimed that it was because it was a new car the parts cost more. She also checked to make sure I had been put on My Dad’s insurance, the man asked for my date of birth and said that I couldn’t be insured as you have to be over 21 to be insured on any car in group 10 and above. My Mum waited to speak to a manager as this was quite a serious mistake. If I’d driven my Dad’s car and had an accident in the belief I was covered, I would have been in fairly deep shiznit with the police for driving without insurance as well as having to pay all the costs involved. The “manager” apologised and promised that they would make the person involved aware of their mistake so that it wouldn’t happen again.
I am not pleased.
May 8th, 2004 at 1:39 pm
Thats bollocks man. For a start, newer cars are quite often cheaper on insurance because they are safer. Secondly, the 21 yr old/group 10 thing is bollocks too. I think you should try a new insurance company if thats what they’re telling you!
May 8th, 2004 at 1:52 pm
Hmm, well it’s up to my parents really. They did eventually say that they’d insure me for £43 per month after my birthday. Still I’m stuck without a car for over a month. I guess I’ll have to get on with finding my own wheels.
May 8th, 2004 at 3:33 pm
hehe cool
Can’t wait for the modding to commence…
May 9th, 2004 at 6:43 pm
I’m getting the new BMW Series 1 when it comes out, no worries though I’m far too old to be driving around like these 21yr olds and thier loud music, tut-tut!, insurance isn’t an issue but my missus wanting to drive my new motor will be!
May 9th, 2004 at 6:55 pm
Oh Dean, I’m disappointed. A BMW?! I’d always thought you were a man of taste and refinement but then you go and choose a Beemer. Why not go for a Mercedes all the comfort but some class too?
May 10th, 2004 at 3:07 pm
Iiiiiiaaaaan!!! BMW all the way!!! :-p heheh buy a Zuki SJ - so much fun
May 11th, 2004 at 7:09 am
Ha I’m going for the Beemer cause I can afford it, it’s going to be between 15 - 18k. The merc I want (SL500) would cost about 25 - 30k, I need to work for a few more years to afford it - and hey there is nothing wrong with BMW, have you seen what they did with an X5 and a LeMans grade engine? people thought it was an F15 Tomcat going past
May 11th, 2004 at 9:23 pm
Hi !
I hope you won’t mind, but I couldn’t find your email to write directly to you, so I thought the comments might be a way to reach you.
Since our blog is now powered by iBlog and we want to move to MovableType for more power and felibility, and we have nearly 800 posts, we wanted to import these to a MovableType database automatically.
That’s how I found your post at MT.org :
http://www.movabletype.org/support/index.php?act=ST&f=13&t=35099&hl=iblog&s=44fca7d5d93b4af6115c4eb94bdbc4fd
I’m not very technical and I was hoping you did finally find a way to automate the process and could help me. Could you please help me or point me to a way out ?
Thanks !
THieRRy
May 11th, 2004 at 10:16 pm
Unfortunately I never did find a way of automatically importing the posts. I spent about six hours copy and pasting and correcting the date. But I had nowhere near 800 posts. I’m certain there is a way to do it but I got no help from the iBlog people or the MT forum as you saw. I tried making a template that would output data in the format MT wanted but it never worked properly. i found that it would pick up only the titles and ignore the date and body of the post.
I’m sorry I could not be of more help. Good luck with the migration, I do not envy you.