Car Insurance - who are the usual suspects these days?

Conanius

Conanius

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Its renewal time.

Car is totally boring to insure - 2011 Fabia VRS 1.4 TSI - but I'm thinking it will be remapped during this insurance period. So, I want a remap friendly insurer.

I'm currently with LV, and they have quoted £380 FC (9 years NCB, Protected NCD, 2 non fault accidents in the last 3 years, SP30 opts £60 in Apr 2010, Parked on Driveway, 12,000 Miles P/A) Which on the face of it seems fair.

I'm going to try Chris Knott, Sky, Noel Dazely (sp) and A-Plan on Monday, but just curious if anyone has any others that I should be looking to check other than the usual stuff on comparison sites.
 
Conanius said:
The companies I mentioned in my opening post usually beat them by price, and by policy quality, by a significant margin.
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Surely you can't not run a comparison quote though, for all the time it takes. Then try the companies not on the comparison to see how it compares.

I did this recently and my cheapest quote was from the comparison site, followed by direct line.

Just not bothering and assuming they won't be any good just seems a bit daft.
 
I've not said that?

I can use go compare/moneysupermarket/meerkat/whatever... and unsurprisingly I don't need reminding to use them.

The ones I posted are specialist insurance brokers, and are usually cheaper with better policies (NCB Protection included, lower excess, euro cover, whatever). I'm curious to know if I've missed any out as times change...
 
Year by year I use a few comparison sites to get a rough idea of how much I will be paying minus 150 quid.

Year on year I get accurate results via specialists to the above theory lol.

I've swapped between a few besties for me over the years, Brentacre, Chris Knott, Sky and Greenlight tend to do me well. Golf 1.8 20vt, Civic Type R, Astra 2.2 SRi, Corsa 1.6 Sport years back and Fiesta ST at the mo, all the above are the best for me and my modded bangers.
 
Comparison site got me the cheapest I could find last year, £345 with theinsuranceline. Nobody else came remotely close. Very cheap considering my age, history and car.
 
Comparison sites aren't usually the cheapest, but the cashback offers through things like Quidco do then make them competitive!

I'll be insuring with Brentacre this year though!
 
Me and my girlfriend have our cars (import mx5 and Abarth 500) insured by Greenlight. They where by far the cheapest for both of us.
 
Aiva were the cheapest for me this year by a country mile, and they seem quite mod-friendly too (they didn't increase my premium when I declared my exhaust)
 
I'm glad this thread came up- Having being informed by my mechanically competent Dad that my car is likely to go to the 'car park in the sky' before too long and advised me to look for something to get once I turn 24, I have been looking at the comparison sites and notice that some insurers are massively cheaper than others.

What's the deal with insurance providers like.. well the top few in my screenshot:

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This was for an Octavia RS if you're wondering.
 
I played admiral and elephant of against each other (same company) on my multi-car policy. I got the two cheapest quote (one from each) in one policy.
Incidentally. It dropped £150 this year which is a quarter of last year's overall price so I stuck with them :)
 
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