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max no claims recognised in the UK insurance market is 9 years
I'm not sure what difference it makes but when I explained to my insurers that I was fully licensed driver in Australia for years before coming to the UK and getting a UK lic. they reduced my costs. I wished I'd known it earlier because my UK lic. only has an issue date of when I handed in my Aussie one, not the start date of my Aussie one. So it made me look like a new driver to insurance companies for some time.
hippy
Just done the usual car insurance dance, every year takes days of fiddling around different companies until finally one actually produces a reasonable number.
Also interesting point I did not realise, max no claims recognised in the UK insurance market is 9 years (or so the 6 or 7 different agents (not underwriters, no idea which one vend with which underwriter until you've actually gone the whole way)), so with my previous agent I've gone from 9 years to 11 years, however the proof of NCB only came back with 9. When challenged they highlighted it to me, then rang a further 5 or 6 who all said the same.
In the next year I'm considering getting a commercial/ fleet type policy. Currently have 3 cars (2 on road, 1 sort of project), partner has 1 and then there is always at least 1 motorbike. Would like to have more options when it comes to buying and selling random projects instead of currently trying to time it for the end of the policy of the one I'm about to swap about (as every single time I've had to change a policy, the re-adjusted value has always been staggering) and its a bit limiting.