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Guide · Car insurance · 7 chapters · 34 min in total

Understanding your car insurance policy

Read from the front page to the exclusions, in the order the document is actually built. Each chapter takes one section of a real policy and explains it line by line.

2 of 7 complete
1

The schedule: your policy in one page

Where your premium, excess and named drivers actually live

Read · 4 min
2

What third-party liability really covers

The minimum required by law, and where it stops

Read · 5 min
3

Excess: the part you always pay

Standard, voluntary and compulsory excess, and how they stack

Continue · 6 min
4

Exclusions, and why they are written that way

Six clauses that decide most rejected claims

5 min
5

Named drivers and permitted use

Who may drive the car, and for what

4 min
6

Making a claim, step by step

Deadlines, evidence and the words that matter on the form

6 min
7

Renewal, cancellation and switching

Your deadline, and what carries over to a new insurer

4 min

Educational, general wording. Your own document decides what applies to you.

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