Car insurance successes stories

irish_eyes_r_smiling

just got my renewal from Ecar insurance, Male, 27, 3 years NCB - £652 fully comp + breakdown + legal.

last year i paid £657. gutted!!!

anybody think its worth haggling with them or is a take it or leave it thing with car insurance companies???

sylviesinc

It's always worth checking with other companies via comparison sites and, as has been mentioned before, it's also worth applying to your existing company as a new customer.

RonnieCollins

MSE_Archna wrote: »

Having last week put the Cheapest Car Insurance System in the weekly e-mail I got an email from someone saying it cut his costs down to £48. So I thought it'd be interesting to see who else seared down their car insurance that way. Did you manage it for under £100?

Martin
thank you Martin
today I did the compare thing having received my renewal quote from Privilege. I found 4 quotes significantly cheaper than my renewal quote - one of them being Privilege. I rang them and told them - they offered me the online quote AND offered me monthly payment at 0%interest. I have saved £160 in one hit. Thank you thank you thank you!!:rotfl:

peacemaker77

My renewal was £224, so I used Moneysupermarket to find Sabre quoting £123.90 for fully comp, then I went through Quidcom for £90 cashback making it £43.90 then used my Egg Money Card for another £1.24 off !!, so paid £42.66, a saving of £181.34.

fatbelly

From my Quidco account:

30 Aug 2007 00:21:06 Prudential Car Insurance 157.50 130.00 paid 01 Nov 2007

Net cost £27.50

Suspect I won't do as well this time around

hethmar

Last October, my fully comp insurance with Prudential was £184 - went through quidco, got £100 cash back and Prudential also threw in a years free breakdown cover with Green Flag - which meant I could cancel my AA sub for a year and I used my cash back credit card to pay. In effect, THEY paid me to insure my car with them As Fatbelly says, dont think I shall get a break like that this year.

hethmar

Irisheyes, surely you are going to check out a number of other companies first? You can read what to do at the top of the thread - let us know how much you save.

Will, a 1.8 turbo Peugeot at 17? Cant you look for a cheaper to insure car with 1000 cc or something?

Lucycat

My fully comp policy through Pru last year cost £164 with a year's free Green Flag breakdown cover, £100 cash back through Quidco and paid with a cashback card.

So sub £64 and free breakdown cover - and will be disappointed if I can't beat that this year! :rotfl:

danthemoneysavingman

I got car insurance for £339 fully comp from Tesco back in Feb.

Using the "500points a month" code, that returned £240 in clubcard vouchers.
I also got 10 vouchers for "£10 off spend over £20", which weren't limited to 1 per shop, hence got a further £100 off.

The result? Fully comp car insurance for the equivalent of -£1 ! wahey!:beer:

Oh yeah, that included protected no claims discount too!

hethmar

Lucy, you got same deal as me - the AA sub I cancelled was about £130 I think.

A couple of months later Pru had increased to £130 cash back through quidco.