Chip

Now that Admiral has a nice customer base of scooby owners it seems that it has decided to rip people off with their renewal premiums.
Had mine this morning and it,s gone up from £520 to an amazing £1200.

Has the SIDC got round to arranging it,s own insurance yet or anyone got any ideas where to go for a cheaper quote.

I,m 37 , max no claims , 1 speeding conviction.

Any ideas welcome.

JON HUGHES

Oh no...
Mine was £700 last year with admiral which went up from £278,did change from a legacy turbo to sti3 though.
jon

Blow Dog

Admiral are a bunch of tossers.

I am paying £1600.00 for my premium, I went with them out of desperation. If they even THINK about increasing that premium, they will have one less customer.

Cem

chrisp

I am with admiral and its due 12/2/00. Just had the renewal £591, last year is was £550. Whats going on ? Mines a MY98 UK spec, with exhaust mod and quickshift (both declared) and class 1 business and father to drive. I know insurance has gone up accross the board. I am quite happy (relatively ) with my renewal but I now seem to be in the minority. Best other quote was 815 quid, no business use, me to drive only.

chrisp

Chip

Chrisp
Dont understand this.Just spoken to Admiral and was told rise was due to Personal circumstances,postcode,and type of car.
Funny this as none of the above have changed since last year.

MarkF

I was with Admiral until my last renewal. The quote went up from £800 to £995 for my MY93 WRX. I bombed them off after they gave a load of excuses about how they had "under-estimated this particular vehicle". I now use Adrian Flux who gave a very good deal. I believe that if you have a scoob and can prove you use another car most of the time (eg work) you can get up to 60% discount!! Worth looking at....

chrisp

Hi Chip,
I do sympathise with you and cant understand it myself. I was all geared up to hunt for a new insurer as I expecting a renewal of £800 minimum.

Is yours a jap import ie STi or WRX ?

cheers

chrisp

Chip

Chrisp

No, it,s a bog standard 99MY in DBM.

Chip.

ptholt

Read my other post re admiral in another guys rant re the insurance company.
Basically the company have or are being bought out and need to balance the books pdq, so are doing this by hitting renewals hard.

Yosser

I used Keith Michaels for my STi 3 5dr- £1093 - I told the dealer I wouldn't buy the car if he couldn't get me insurance for less that £1000 so he paid the difference!.
London E2 parked on the street.
32 no convictions - Girlfriend to drive, 31
Everyone was surprised at work (but then they have no idea about scoobs - all Merc and Saab drivers).
Although I was with Woolwich car insurance on my old Granada 2l 1990 - they tried to put it up to £900 from £458 - no change in circumstances - I think they might be targeting certain areas and say well we don't mind loosing those customers cause they live in a high risk area, so they hike the premiums up !
Just an idea
Yos

Tim Bomford

Why do you all pay soooo much for insurance. Myself £580, 1993 wrx, 27yrs old , 1 named driver with full no claims. This price is the same for an STi. It will cost me £200 more when I get my EVO. Bell Direct are who I, and many others here use. They know all the import types and don't load for the "normal" modifications either
TIm

Bajie

Tim.
What is the situation regarding modifications to your car?

Admiral are crap by the way. Wouldn't even entertain my Terzo.
That after accumulating 6yrs NCB which I had protected and guaranteed on my Merc!
Bastids!!

EdwardH

I think Admiral are becoming Scooby un-friendly.

When I ordered my Turbo in July 1999 they wanted £800 fully comp with no ncb.

When I came to get a policy in Jan this year they wanted £2000!!!! No change in details.

I shopped elsewhere.

Ed

lee_m

Sympathys Chip,

You and the other posts have got me nicely worried. I'm with Admiral bog std MY99, garaged, Surrey. £440 last year - due early March - this year its a lottery!

I'm another that would be interested in joining some form of bulk buying discount insurance (with known quality of cover etc)

I don't expect to be anywhere near as lucky with my premium next year

sunilp

Lee_m..youre just a tight wad

PS..Cheam Subaru were excellent, and Ewell village has a very high porportion of attractive young blondes and brunettes.

Chip

Got about five quotes today as follows:

Norwich Union Direct £730

Bell £900

Privilige £730

Local broker £910

Coming down but still want to go lower.
I'll just have to keep on trying.Any other companies no.s gratefully received.

Chip.

James Neill

iTrader: (1)

Bell Direct is a sister company of Admiral (they even use the same layout for the paperwork - which probably means they're using all the same back-end systems).

Bizarely enough whilst Admiral is getting slated for crap premiums, Bell Direct (who I went with) give some of the better premiums.

IainT

CHIP
try Quoteline Direct (can't remember the number now but I can dig it out if you want)they have a special deal with AXA which has been the best quote by miles (rang over 38 companies)£495 32 5yrs NCB 27Yr old wife on too, and they OK with mods too.
Regards
Iain

IainT

Chip,
try Quoteline Direct, they have a special deal with AXA and have given me the best quote by over £100.
£495 %yrs NCB 32yrs old and 27yr old wife on too. Oh they are fine with mods too.
I rang over 38 companies last week and they were the best.
Hope it helps
Iain.

DAVE MARSH

just got a quote from NFU £428!!!! HOORAY!!!!

Chip

IainT
Yeah , could you dig out the number for me. I take it NFU is the farmers union,if so do you have to wear green wellies to get a quote from them.
Cheers
Chip

DAVE MARSH

NFU No is 01604 883726, ask for Karen.
All the best
DAVE

IainT

Chip
didn't mean to post twice, I think the bbs was a bit slow in posting replies, so I posted again when I didn't see the first!
Quoteline direct are on 0990 143424
Worked for me, hope it helps!
Cheers
Iain.

Chip

Have got it down to a reasonable £660.Name of company : Frizzell Direct. Any one had any dealings with them , are they any good?

Chip

Nigel G

Try Bennett's Elite on 0870 60 61 62 6 - they were the cheapest by quite a long way for an MY99 UK Turbo when I was phoning round in December (also underwritten by AXA).

Si

Try Kwik Fit, they might be crap for tyres etc. but they're cheap for insurance (for me anyhow).

Cheers

Si

[This message has been edited by Si (edited 14-02-2000).]