Car insurance quote goes up big time

[malvolio]

Doubt it. It's Group 17. My version will out-drag an 4.4 litre X5 to 100mph (we've tried it) and will frighten hot hatches down the lanes (I've tried that too, regularly!). The manual version is quicker. Think of it as an Impreza built for grandads.

Still looks like a bag of bolts though...

[websurferbill]

Just was checking my current car insurance company and even though my NCB gone up from 2 to 3 years, they quotes me £1,000 - a lot more than current's years £600 - wtf? The are broker, so the only explanation I have is that they switched to a rip off insurance company - they claim that insurance rates gone up, but surely not by 50%?

In light of norwich unions rate increase announcement I bet we'll start to see far more occurances of ridiculous price rises like this. I looked at quotse for mine on here http://www.moneysupermarket.com/motor/ and it gave me a price for the company I'm currently with that was £100 a year higher than present. thinking this had to be wrong i rang them up but the price they offered for renewal was indeed more than £100 higher than at present. Needless to say i didnt renew and moved instead to the one offering the cheapest prices on the supermarket result table. (have to call my new insurance company up now to see if Im covered while abroad as im taking my first foreign contact to holland). Does any one have any advice for contracting in holland?

[Numptycorner]

www.swiftcover.com

[Ardesco]

When I got my renewal through I logged on and got a new quote from my insurance companies website. The quote they provided me online was 40% cheaper than my renewal quote so i phoned them up, got them to cancel my existing policy and start up a new one. the nice chap I talked to couldn't explain the huge difference in prices, Also did this for my wifes car insurance and the house insurance with the same results every time.

Nice big discount and they already have my NCB information so no faffinf about getting a copy and sending it on the the new insurer.

From this experiance i deduce that they don't give you extra discounts if you renew because they know that you can afford to pay them the same amount next year. If you want a renewal get a new quote from them don't sit on your laurels and pay too much !!!

http://www.thepru.co.uk if you are interested, at least i think it was .co.uk, may have been.com

[Troll]

Slightly off topic... does anyone else have a mortgage company who if you change the household insurance policy they will charge you an 'admin' fee for entering a change of details?

And yes.... I know lots of you don't have mortgages

[Viktor]

Who?

I drive a van. Real men drive vans. Women and poofs drive cars, Trannies drive estates. AtW drives a specially adapted invalid carriage for the limbless.

Ford Ranger or Nissan Navara?
The good reason with vans is that you can recover VAT in full and the feeling when you drive a pick-up beats those posh cars and their dickless drivers...

[Andyw]

sasguru takes the tube !

[Mordac]

When I got my renewal through I logged on and got a new quote from my insurance companies website. The quote they provided me online was 40% cheaper than my renewal quote so i phoned them up, got them to cancel my existing policy and start up a new one. the nice chap I talked to couldn't explain the huge difference in prices, Also did this for my wifes car insurance and the house insurance with the same results every time.

Standard industry practice, unfortunately (I'm currently contracting at a large insurance company). They know that only about 20% can be bothered to shop around at renewal time, so they hike up the premiums knowing that 80% will pay up. Think of it as a sort of tax on the lazy and the stupid.

[Flubster]

(I'm currently contracting at a large insurance company).

L&G at Kingswood?

[Mordac]

L&G at Kingswood?

Nope, a Swiss one (because tulip happenz...) and I'm all over the place (geographically, rather than metaphorically).