HanSolo
New Member
Having been convicted of drink-driving in April I was given a 2-year ban and the opportunity to attend a drink-drive rehabilitation course.
Now...I have the course dates set. However I am in two minds about whether to even take the course. I have read the (obviously) good feedback comments left on course websites by people. But I'm so humiliated that I even committed this offense I don't know if I could take 3 days of talking about it. There's absolutely no doubt I have learnt my lesson.
It will cost me £155 to take the course, at the moment this is a lot of money for me to pay out. However it will cost me £30 just to cancel it.
I've managed to find myself some part-time work, currently it's the only source of income I have and the course dates just happen to fall on days I would need to work. Again it is a £30 fee to change the dates again.
I actually have begun to enjoy not driving and will be leaving the country for 6 months next February. I don't really feel that there will be any point reducing my ban down to 18 months if I won't be driving anyway.
The only positive I can see for taking it is to potentially reduce insurance premiums in the future...as a 23 year old lad convicted of drink-driving within 18 months of passing my test my insurance will be so high it wont be worth driving anyway. Does anyone have any experience just how much of a difference it makes to the prices given out by insurance companies?
Thanks for your time
Now...I have the course dates set. However I am in two minds about whether to even take the course. I have read the (obviously) good feedback comments left on course websites by people. But I'm so humiliated that I even committed this offense I don't know if I could take 3 days of talking about it. There's absolutely no doubt I have learnt my lesson.
It will cost me £155 to take the course, at the moment this is a lot of money for me to pay out. However it will cost me £30 just to cancel it.
I've managed to find myself some part-time work, currently it's the only source of income I have and the course dates just happen to fall on days I would need to work. Again it is a £30 fee to change the dates again.
I actually have begun to enjoy not driving and will be leaving the country for 6 months next February. I don't really feel that there will be any point reducing my ban down to 18 months if I won't be driving anyway.
The only positive I can see for taking it is to potentially reduce insurance premiums in the future...as a 23 year old lad convicted of drink-driving within 18 months of passing my test my insurance will be so high it wont be worth driving anyway. Does anyone have any experience just how much of a difference it makes to the prices given out by insurance companies?
Thanks for your time