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Originally Posted by ChrisG
...If you loan it we'll give you a loan car for the weekend ...
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Check the small print before taking them up on this offer...
It's not like the good old days where you just sign a piece of paper to say that you're borrowing the car before driving it away and returning it with fuel replaced.
They now want your money just to take their loan vehicles off the premises and have a basic minimum excess of £1000! The alternative being that you can add the vehicle to your own insurance, but don't expect it to be an easy ride, the last time I attempted to do so, maybe 3 years ago, the dealership were unable to provide enough details for the vehicle that they were loaning me to be able to satisfy my insurance company.
I can understand their need to be more cautious these days, especially in view of loaning a £20K-£30K vehicle, but when I've been using said dealership for 18yrs and have driven plenty of their courtesy cars in that time, it did kind of make me think that maybe I should get them to sign something with a huge excess implied and insist that they hand me money when I leave my car with them.
