Stully

Hi all,

I have recently worked through a number of Insurance companies to try an get my renewal down from £976 from Bell Direct (0800 140 180). Last year it cost me £620 that's a 57% increase!!!!!

Well this is what I found out for fully comp with protective NCB and £250 excess.

The car each company quoted for is a 5 door MY97 P the only mods being 16" gold speedline wheels, blacked out windows and cruise control, great for staying within the law. Alarmed with a Sigma M30. A Clean license and full NCB.

Master Quote (0870 241 4543) would not quote.

GreenLight (01277 263 030) would not quote as higher than best quote. This happened a lot.

RAC (0800 015 4435) £1444

Norwich Union Direct (0800 068 2668) £870

AxA Direct (0800 013 8292) £1326

Lloyds TSB (0800 917 4899) £690 underwritten by Churchill

Hill House Hammond (0800 068 3866) would not quote but passed to.
Performance side to HHH (01733 345 761) would not quote as higher than best quote.

Hastings Direct (0800 001 066) would not quote but passed to.
Performance side (0800 068 2939) would not quote as higher than best quote.

Budget Insurance Services (0800 521 408) £925

Quote Seekers (0800 068 3266) would not quote as needed to see an Engineers report regarding cruise control.

Admiral (0800 600 800) £1300

Direct Motor Line (01473 346973) same company as Admiral

Prudential (0800 300 300) would not quote as car needs to be garaged.

Peoples Choice (0800 11 22 33) £850

Auto Direct (0800 085 5456) could not get through at several times of the day.

AA (0800 444 777) £797 told that if the car had been standard £696 underwritten by Churchill

Privilege (0845 246 8485) £863 need a tracker fitted and car not covered for theft this must be covered by Tracker.

Direct Line (0845 246 8913) same company as Privilege.

Royal Sun Alliance (0800 300 220) would not quote as car alarm not listed? No Sigma alarms where listed the woman said!!!

Abbey National (0800 328 6400) Do not insure this vehicle.

Kwik Fit (0870 054 4815) £1000 but need to know % of the blackout film. Told that if the car had been standard £682

Churchill (0800 200 300) would not quote.

Schofield Insurance £1067

Blackpool Insurance (01253 393106) £967

Tesco (0845 300 44 00) £770 with £250 excess, £727 with £350 excess.

Barclays (0870 600 1414) £1592

that's the lot...

I know that location and the ability to garage the vehicle may bring the price down. But its getting hard to find a good competitive price for your pride and joy.

One Insurance company stated that due to the increasing volume of grey Imports the car may be re-classified as Insurance group 20 where at the moment it's 16/17 she said.

This would certainly put the cat among the pigeons.

regards.

boomer

Stully,

thanks for the info - i too am currently on the "insurance phone-around", so it is great to have a few pointers!!!

Cheers,

mb