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But they'll still lump it on your insurance because it's all recorded on a database who attends the courses.

Even if you go on the course your insurance will go up £200, it's a no win situation.

They'll find out because everyone who attends is put on a database, that's how I got found out some years ago. There's hundreds of thousands of drivers out there driving round with void insurance because they haven't told their insurance company.

I dont recall any other questions than "do you have any motoring convictions or points on your licence in the last 5 years"

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

Neither did I but then a few days later I got an Email saying I didn't declare that I'd been on a speed awareness course. It will show up on your policy as an endorsement SP30. The hike in price was £200.

Was the hike for the SP30 or was it for not telling them?

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Grandad,

Did you already have any points on your licence or was that £200 just for having the three points ?

Mine didn't

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

Did you tell them?

Now that is a nice round figure! I wonder as to how they arrived at the figure concerned.....what is the yardstick/criteria?

If there is none then they are just plucking figures out of the air, in my book that cannot be right and should be challenged.

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Common sense........is just not that Common.

I did challenge them to it, when I said the instructor on the course said we don't have to tell our insurance companies they returned with, "he's got no right to tell you that," you've been caught speeding and that's it.

I am on about the £200! How did they arrive at that figure?

To my way of thinking it should be something already laid out like the "Banks", whereby they display a series of cost charges if you/I say go into an unauthorised overdraft, or other unauthorised non compliance......not just a plucked out of the air figure.

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Common sense........is just not that Common.

I don't know how Admiral work but they lumped £200 onto my Policy £100 for each car.

I didn't have to I was on the phone in a three way conversation with the DVLA who told them I had no convictions. So if I have no convictions I don't have to tell them

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Note to self: Just because it pops into my head does NOT mean it should come out of my mouth!!

That's right, Toots. Answer the question that's asked, not the question you think is asked.

If the insurers ask 'have you had any convictions in the last 5 years?' The answer is no.