Spoke to dealer and told it may be ready for collection potentially in the next week or two?

I got on the phone to Skoda Uk and they confirm its at the docks, so will be ready for transit to the dealership sometime soon. So looks like next week or so it not out of the question?

Anyways, dealer had told me that they can sort out free 7day insurance in order to get things moving as they are keen in getting this delivered before end if the month.

I think they mention insurance was offered via Skoda?

Has anyone else been offered this, and care to give me more info? I'm not sure if there's a catch or am I better getting me own insurance sorted?

Also if the car gets into the dealer, how longs it take to PDI?

Any other advice on checks for delivery would be appreciated !

Cheers

Hung

My dealer says they can do a PDI in less than a day.

I am in a similar situation to you, hoping to get my car by Sat week. If your car came on the same boat as mine they have been in the UK for a good few days now.

The 7 day insurance offer helps them get the car taxed, its arranged via SUK but they wont be the insurance provider.

At the end of the 7 day period they will give you a quote for the rest of the year, obviously you would need to compare that with other quotes from other brokers.

No catch at all. It's completely free, bar having to listen to someone waffle on for 15 minutes!

As it is a new car, insurance is needed to tax and register it. Plus it saves any potential headaches of having your current insurance changed over for that day and having the covernote in time.

Hope you enjoy it Hung!

I went for the free 7 days. I phoned the number at the dealers and my car was insured, registered on my private plate and taxed in under 10 minutes.

Simply brilliant, quick, and effective

May not a catch but you have to go through a grilling on your insurance history for the last 5 yrs

including named drivers history. They were quite pushy in wanting full exact details (claim april 2009 for shunt in car park not our fault for example not good enough).

Too much hassle so didn't bother as got insurance to send insurance note to dealer direct.

They obviously use the info provided to quote you.....mini catch!!

When we had same offer on a Honda you just quote a number the dealer gave us and names and addresses and you where covered. Lot simpler. Not a big risk involved for 7 days and you still

have to synchonise with your insurance continuing cover.

I think the insurance was Allianz but could be wrong. Definately not Skoda.

Edited 18 October, 201213 yr by kibby

Yeah no catch, I did it when I bought a car from an independent dealer, presume this is the same.

Think it was via Aviva - you ring up, give them a PIN code relative to them, they give you a quote, you say thanks and they give you 7 days free insurance. If you choose to go ahead with the full quote I think the dealer get a cut!

....they can sort out free 7day insurance in order to get things moving ....

Yes, this happened in my case. For a new reg, it seems they have to quote the insurance cover before the new reg number is validated (I'm sure someone can give the proper wording). Although I was transferring an existing policy, the cover couldn't be arranged until the insurance company had a reg number. Classic chicken and egg. So Skoda offer a sort of bridging cover to avoid delays, although in fact it was never operational because my insurer had a valid reg number recorded at the point of change-over....

I thought it was illegal to have 2 insurances running at the same time so as this could be an issue to tie up didn't bother but I bet a lot of people end up wth 2 if things don't go to plan but no big deal unless you are planning on claiming twice!

Edited 18 October, 201213 yr by kibby

No catch at all. It's completely free, bar having to listen to someone waffle on for 15 minutes!

As it is a new car, insurance is needed to tax and register it. Plus it saves any potential headaches of having your current insurance changed over for that day and having the covernote in time.

Hope you enjoy it Hung!

Thanks Lee!

I never thought it'd come this early!!

Well in time for the baby too....

I have a private registration which I purchased via dvla.

Already got the certificate thru the post.

If I was to sort out my own insurance, am I able to do this now using the private registration?

Or does the dealer need to register it against the new car first before I arrange insurance?

unfortunately I'm going to have to establish a brand new policy, as I won't be able to use NCB from my existing car policy. I'm still running my other car :(

just hope I can get some intro discount on NCB....

Hung

The reg that you purchased will be on retention. Give the retention certificate to your dealer and they will enter all the details against the Yeti. As it's on retention there's no need to go to local DVLA office so it's an instant plate (if that makes sense).

You can then ring Skoda insurance and they will issue the cover on to the car for the date you want to pick it up.

Glad it arrived long before little'un is due - not long now until the broken sleep

The reg that you purchased will be on retention. Give the retention certificate to your dealer and they will enter all the details against the Yeti. As it's on retention there's no need to go to local DVLA office so it's an instant plate (if that makes sense).

You can then ring Skoda insurance and they will issue the cover on to the car for the date you want to pick it up.

Glad it arrived long before little'un is due - not long now until the broken sleep

Don't know why it posted twice??

Don't know why it posted twice??

Real value for money!

We used it for our new Yeti as we were part exchanging our old Yeti.

Our son used it for his new Citigo .As he was selling his old car privately he just left his old insurance running on his old car until it was sold, then cancelled it,and received a small refund.

He had about 3 months to run on his old insurance policy and we pointed out to Skodas insurers that He didn't want to lose a years no-claims bonus.They agreed to credit him a full year for the 9 months worth with his old insurers.

In both are cases it was cheaper than our old insurers and worked like clockwork.

should have been on the previous post :clap:

used the free 7 day insurance twice with new skodas and it seems very simple and straightforward.....

The reg that you purchased will be on retention. Give the retention certificate to your dealer and they will enter all the details against the Yeti. As it's on retention there's no need to go to local DVLA office so it's an instant plate (if that makes sense).

You can then ring Skoda insurance and they will issue the cover on to the car for the date you want to pick it up.

Glad it arrived long before little'un is due - not long now until the broken sleep

I'm planing to give the v750 certificate to the dealership over the weekend.

But I was planning on phoning for insurance quotes today, using the new registration plate.

As the registration has not been formally registered against the yeti, I assume I can still

Take out insurance.

I used the 7day insurance when I bought the Yeti but I had to phone the insurance company myself, the dealer couldn't do it.

It was with Allianz and they gave me a good quote for the rest of the year but the last renewal was not competive so I went elsewhere.

Fred

You can still get quotes and obtain insurance on the new reg, but it may be worth actually speaking to the insurer(s) just to clarify the whole situation.

It may take a few days or so for the reg number to become recognised on DVLA and the insurance database, hence speaking to someone.

As with most insurance companies hook you in first year then whop it up second hoping you won't notice.

As with most insurance companies hook you in first year then whop it up second hoping you won't notice.

Maybe....I always negotiate

For year 1, I take your point, they quoted me £270, LV charges me £231.

I've used this several times and, yes, it's very straight forward. I only used it so the dealer could tax the car and I had my own insurance covering it from the same date. Reason - it's a £500 compulsory excess if, god forbid, you make a claim in those seven days! Ouch!

No such thing as a free lunch springs to mind

only thing to note / watch is the excess on the 7day offer is £500

We've used the free 7 day insurance for 2 cars. No problems at all.

The Octavia was a dealer demo so effectively second hand but we still got the 7 day cover free.

Also got a quote for a years insurance from Skoda before we took the 7 day.

I was about £150 more than the best quote we had elsewhere so didn't go for it though.