Car Insurance

[thewestwind]

Just wondering what car insurance you lads find to be the best value.
The wife has just received her renewal quote and it's gone up a stupid amount.
I know there's loads of price comparison sites out there but don't fancy getting bombarded with loads of phone calls from the b@sturds once they have your number.
Any ideas

TA

 

[tonynufc]

try swinton mate.

 

[willywetegg]

Hi mate, your not wrong about the phone calls mind SWMBO decided to try one of those damn sites out on Saturday despite me warning her about what would happen. She eventually told them today to rmove her details from their records

Our insurance was our house insurance and that had gone up to a stupid amount. The best offer I got was from the AA which we are going to take.

We were with Fortis for our car insurance and they have always been canny but they went up a bit this year. I didn't really want to go to another one as when I have had to claim in the past they have been very good. I think the longer you stay with anyone the more they treat you with contempt. We changed to Axa this year and got a much better price, I bet if I go back to Fortis next year they will give me a better price again :casstet::casstet::casstet:

Jim.

 

[greggthe1]

Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury all do very good rates. Sheilas wheels is good for women, saved the wife a fortune using them. Don't be put off by price comparison sites tho as they normally just send me emails with quotes. I normally save all my family lots of money using them!!

 

[davie]

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just got a new car for my partner phoned around all over then try the Internet and Churchill was the best by alot shes only got 3 years noclaims and I've got 8 and hers was still cheaper than mine.

 

[mark]

top tip for them damn sites....

when they insist you enter a phone number....... the wee bit of webby software doesn'r really understand the numbers it just wants numbers...

type 999 in, or if it demands extra digits enough 9's to make it happy

the numbers end up being fed into the automated dialler (can you see where I'm going with this )

so the automated dialler dials what ever number you entered, even if you put 10 9's in, the first 3 will make the connection!

works a treat. part of my personal crusade to rid us of automated diallers - if the operator sees company x making repeated silent calls to 999 someone somewhere will get a visit hopefully

if you're a bit twitchy about entering 999, have a look for the number of a company that has really hacked you off with nuisance calls, and stick there number in, or better still enter the number of the company whose web site you're on.

if it enough people do it it will tie their automated dialler in knots and it will fall over, and as the fall over is a software error, it could take them ages to find it!

stuck a premuim rate sex line number out of the paper on one site a while ago!

and if they insist on an email address as well, [email protected] is my currently preffered one to enter!

 

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

I like the way you think Mark ,I'll use the advice should the occasion arise where I need it.

 

[Charlton]

used go compare, after my last quote was absolutely stupid, with Aviva (Norwich Union) to my suprise the AA came out the best for my needs, being in the AA I always got a quote from them, but they where always way above everybody, obviously they have learned. Save £150 on my Aviva quote, got discount for being in the AA, and normally I always pay the lot, don't like paying extra, but believe it or not, by getting a quote for my house insurance, i got a discount on the direct debit, which worked out less than if I paid the lot.
ps and the cover was much better than with Aviva

 

[thewestwind]

Thanks for the input lads it's much appreciated.

mark I love your philosophy I'm going to have some of that.

Cheers lads

 

[Lowrider]

Must admit i have been looking at quotes of late.
After 6 years of a Motabilty car but doing sod all mileage we have been thinking of saving some cash and buying our own.
But i was amazed at the quotes i was getting,insurance has really shot up over those 6 years

 

[5150]

I've been through all the comparisson sites, varies on the car I'm renewing, found gocompare, comparethemarket and quotelinedirect are usually the better quoters for me. Annoyingly my family car's premiums shot up this year (Zafira) and yet the weekend toy (Porsche) dropped, though it is on classic (£140 a year fully comp).

 

[Mike.Haley]

Got a phone call from a company called Acadamy and they give me a quote for my Ford Mondeo 2.0 Ghia it was so low I had to ask them to repeat it then send it in writting. No neeed to say who I swithched to.

 

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just put son on policy (20 yr old ) couldnt beat AA