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Judith Proctor ([personal profile] watervole) wrote2011-11-06 01:34 pm

Car insurance

 When I got my car insurance renewal from ASDA, it was £1869 (and they could no longer include breakdown cover in that as the car was getting older).

Thank goodness I shopped around.  My new premium is under £800 and includes RAC Roadside.  And my new insurer has a telephone number.  ASDA used to stress me out terribly as you could only communicate by email - and they didn't always reply even then.  Most things had to be done by logging onto the policy and manually editing it to change anything (like a new driver) and I just hated it.

I'm now with IGO4, via Moneysupermarket.com

If that sounds like a bit of an advert, I guess it is.  Saving £1000 means a lot to us at the moment.  And having an insurer where I can also speak to a human being (I phoned up to ask a question about one part of the policy and had an instant helpful answer) is important to me.
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[personal profile] crazyscot 2011-11-07 09:03 am (UTC)(link)
Egads! Hadn't realised that insurance for the young was really quite such a premium loading :(
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[personal profile] matgb 2011-11-08 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Yup. It's got to the stage where it's cheaper for a young male to get caught driving with no insurance several times a year and paying the fine than it is for them to go legit. Of coruse, that messes up their insurance costs in the future, but young males not always into planning.

Utterly ridiculous setup now, insurance is a horrible thing. Very glad I gave up owning a car.