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Car insurance and winter tyres

My Mercedes-Benz E320 is insured by Mercedes-Benz Insurance. Following your advice recently I contacted them to inform them I was fitting winter tyres. They refunded £53 of my premium - an unexpected surprise.

Asked on 31 January 2012 by icymike

Answered by Honest John
Only Mercedes Insurance and Toyota Insurance seem to do this. Must be the same underwriter.

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