Black Boxes, Smart Drivers Club
- Thread starter Jimmi
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My 17 year old uses one but its enforced by the insurance company, big saving though of about £1000.
Daughter has one fitted (18 years old)
Was still over 2k to insure
And nothing but grief
Limited milage/bad scores if car is started and stopped over 5 times s day
She gets perfect 10s in scores(through the app)
Then a week before shes due a bonus bit of money back
The scores suddenly go into negative for no reason whatsoever..
Got to the point where she cried her eyes out and refused to drive the car .
I be glad when feb comes and we get to change insurers
Edit. I tried driving it the other week , and couldn’t get anywere near my daughters perfect scores lol
Was still over 2k to insure
And nothing but grief
Limited milage/bad scores if car is started and stopped over 5 times s day
She gets perfect 10s in scores(through the app)
Then a week before shes due a bonus bit of money back
The scores suddenly go into negative for no reason whatsoever..
Got to the point where she cried her eyes out and refused to drive the car .
I be glad when feb comes and we get to change insurers
Edit. I tried driving it the other week , and couldn’t get anywere near my daughters perfect scores lol
I'd never get Insurance again if I had one of these fitted.
We've had this conversation before, and my daughter is 17 next week, with a bulk load of lessons for her Birthday. She's dreading one of these boxes, and says her friends hate them because of how hard they are to please. I'm sure the last thread there was a mention of how dangerous someones Son's driving was, simply because he was so fixed on the speedo, and not the road.
I thought that, then my mates lads experience was cheaper in year one not a big reduction in year two whereas 1st year no box, clean license year two decreased third year a major decrease. Overall outcome cheaper in the long run without box and as long as the kids are responsible and mature in attitude I definitely wouldn’t bother with the black box...
Do the insurance companies offer the option to have one or not have one? Obviously with 2 different prices.
Some do, majority only one or the other. Best deal I got for a cheeky little Corsa was £1,600 still 3 times the value of the car! Could have saved nearly £400 with black box, but in it for the long term.
I have a box fitted by Smart Driver Club. I did post a thread on them sharing the benefits - see link.
Little Black Box
I know the owner well, no scam, just decent motivated women trying to offer something different.
They measure the below - as you can see I need to improve on my speeding lol
Little Black Box
I know the owner well, no scam, just decent motivated women trying to offer something different.
They measure the below - as you can see I need to improve on my speeding lol
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Blimey, i'd be awful at that, but I bet it would improve my driving. Is it anything to do with the insurance industry, or just a drivers aid to improve their driving?
That would be my one on a good day.
You can either just be a member or you can also take out insurance - the device plugs in the ODB port so nice and hassle free. Some more pics
Does that act as a tracker too?
You can view where it was last parked, you can if stolen contact them and they can give the police live directions in regards to where it is currently and if on the move they would relay that to the police.
They dont give YOU that info due to people going all Liam Neeson on the thieves asses ha
Further to that you can set alerts everytime it moves so if on holiday you would know it was stolen immediately.
