Waiting on my new 1.5 SE-L ND to arrive. Should have it by end of week or sometime after the Easter break.
My Mazda Dealer and the Mazda Web advise me that I get Mazda European Breakdown Assistance and a 7 day “drive away” Insurance on collection of the car after registration, PDI etc.
7 day drive away insurance sounds good, since it gives me 6 days after collection to search and compare insurance, and the Mazda Breakdown assistance hopefully means that I needn’t include it as an add on in my insurance.
On clinching the deal my dealer didn’t have any details regarding the Breakdown assistance and I am unclear as to where I can find any details on what the 7 day drive away insurance covers.
Will continue to press the dealer for more details, but ahead of talking to them again I would appreciate feedback from anyone who has bought a new ND from a Mazda dealer with these benefits as to what they cover.
These are part of the package with a new Mazda, I got them with my new ND. The insurance gives you cover so that they can tax the car and you don’t need to panic to get your own insurance sorted. The paperwork, insurance document, breakdown booklet are all given to you by the dealer at “handover” when all the necessary stuff is signed, sealed and delivered.
You can get the free 7 day cover with used cars as well.
However the excess may be very high, so you better not crash it!
One thing I find annoying about getting a new(er) car, is that it’s a pain to keep the old one insured for the purpose of selling it (with demo drives etc).
There’s a gap in the market for interim cover to sell your old car (assuming you don’t want to trade it in and get less).
Sounds like your deader is being lazy - every new car he/she sells will have the same insurance and breakdown deals.
You have to arrange the insurance yourself anyway - the dealer will give you a deader code when you get the vehicle registration number.
The 7 day insurance is OK but the excess is high - as well as being a convenient way to register the vehicle it’s really just a hook to try and sell you an annual policy. As my new ND was an additional vehicle I arranged my brand new policy, from somebody else, to run from when the 7 day policy finished - every little helps.
But, they give £250 excess insurance for a year for free regardless of who you insure through .
Nice choice of model - the same as me - did you get the NAV option, what colour?
Ceramic., but although initially tempted no sat nav. Thought the extra £600 a bit steep. Wife has one in her Seat and although sometimes useful rarely use it. Probably being a bit cynical, but If the 7 day drive away insurance is an attempt to get your insurance business does this mean that you have to opt out of anything after 7 days?. How high is the excess likely to be with the drive away insurance?
No - you don’t have to opt out - it just expires - there is no payment required. From memory the excess was £500.
So it’s a Ceramic - good choice - you will love your car - it’s the same car as mine without the NAV.
The 1.5L is just great - I preferred it to the 2.0L, but it’s not my daily drive so it’s just for fun!
Without all the bells and whistles (it does not have the sensor array that takes up a lot of an already small windscreen), the silver wheels and body coloured mirrors it’s a classic combination .
Because mines on an ‘05’ plate people don’t quite know what to make of it - they don’t think that it’s new!
You can add the NAV later if you want it - I have it in my Mazda3 so would miss it if is was not in the ‘5’.
At the dealership today and your memory serves you well, £500 excess it is.
Dealership in a town (designated city in recent years) that I’m not familiar with, lots of one way street and signs to everywhere but where I want to go. Got lost!! Luckily driving my wife’s car, so her sat nav saved the day. Maybe need a TomTom or garnet after all.
Number plates in Northern Ireland have 3 leading letters (one letter being an X or Z) the letters are specific to the different Counties, Cities or Large Towns and depend on where you live or buy the vehicle. The numbers that follow the letters do’nt represent any year. These letter sequences are exhausted and update to different sequences for each area 3- 4 times a year. Because of the large variation in registrations it is very difficult or even impossible to know what year any vehicle is, and wether the vehicles are new or old
Pick ours up in the next 10 days and we opted for no NAV pn SE-L. I think it is easier to use the mobile and it can be set up before getting in the car. dealer seemed to think it was a must for resale but as it is a few years down the road ! Money better spent on leather seats we thought.