I bought a manufacturer approved used car last week. As part of the deal I was offered seven days insurance cover among other things. I was also contacted by insurance company to extend the seven day cover to noe year. The quote was good so I called them to extend it.

In my conversation with the insurance company I found out that the dealer had misrepresented my information to the insurance company. Most important fact was that he put down that I've held a valid UK license for 15 years whereas I've only had it for less than an year.

I promptly had this corrected but I was told that not only can the company not give me insurance for next year but my 7 day cover was invalid as well. They also told me that dealer must have deliberately entered wrong information because he knew that their company's system would not have allowed a quote otherwise.

All of this happened even though I had given my license to the dealer to examine and I think he even made a photocopy. At no point did he ask about the time I've held my license.

At this point I feel that I have been cheated and put at great financial and personal risk because I was told by insurance company that in case of any unfortunate event any claim would have been refused. So I was driving around for 3 days with an invalid insurance cover. In fact, I had not called them I would have not known about it.

I have now obtained insurance elsewhere but what are my options? What should I do?