Tesco car Insurance!!!

samuela66

Just a quick vent about tesco car insurance, I received a letter yesterday saying my policy runs out blah blah and here is your new one, which will automatically be renewed if we dont hear from you!
Oh no it wont not at double the price it was last year! I called to ask for the reason why, and they said I changed my car last year and this is the price of the new policy, to which i told them I changed my car nearly 8 months ago and you charged me £16 for 8 months difference so how can it be £400 more this year! The chap just kept repeating the same spiel.
I said do not renew and send me a letter stating it will not be renewed.
Went on line and got it for £377 as opposed to £798, robbing sods!

Sam

apesxx

i had a terrible time with tesco when some scumbag wrote my car off in a hit and run in the night earlier in the year. i tried to get what i thought my car was worth considering other online prices but the guy on the phone spoke to me like i was dirt and to top it off i've had the company they sold my car to on the phone asking for the key (went with car) and the service book. even though tesco would not pay me until they recieved the service book they have told the people they sold the car too that they havent got it so they been hounding me i would never insure my car with tesco's ever again, even if they were £200 cheaper than the rest!

cherie1122

The AA would automatically renew too and when I read that bit on my last renewal I phoned them up and told them they were not to renew it unless I agreed. I was unhappy about it - I thought it was cheeky.

I wouldn't trust Tesco insurance. Scammers took two car insurance policies out using my debit card to pay for them. Tesco obviously didn't check the name and address of the policy holder with my debit card details.

Kite2010

Sadly some car insurance companies (and I would imagine more do it now since the continuous insurance rules came in) automatically renew on your "behalf".

Shop around, get the best quote you can then phone up saying "please don't auto renew it, I've got a better quote from *name company* and watch as they will "review" your account and amazingly try and match the new quote, if they want to keep your custom.

paulofessex

I too refused to renew with Tesco this time round due to price doubling. I found the cheapest this time was Marks & Spencers insurance and if all goes well l may even get £35 cash back via TCB.

PZH

Kite2010 wrote: »

Sadly some car insurance companies (and I would imagine more do it now since the continuous insurance rules came in) automatically renew on your "behalf".

I can totally understand Insurance auto-renewing though - it is better (in this instance) to auto renew if you forget rather than find yourself uninsured.

pulliptears

I refuse to insure anything with Tesco after a run in with them some years ago.

We bought an ex dealer demo PT Cruiser. As standard it would have had alloys on but for some reason dealer had put steel wheels on it. We insured it and the dealer sourced the alloys that should have been fitted initially for us and fitted them.

We informed Tesco. They demanded another £70. When we pointed out that the car was standard they refused to budge. We ran a quote on our car with standard alloys on their site and it was the same price, yet they still wanted £70.

With that I cancelled all 3 policies with them and have never been back.

eilidh_s

My home insurance auto-renewed due to me being called back to work early and missing the new premium letter and being blonde and thinking I still had a month to go anyway but as soon as I got home, found a better quote and phoned them they just charged me for the two weeks of insurance that I had with them.

My car insurance is another beast all together. I once had two insurance policies running with Elephant because I was going to away to work two months before the renewal date. I phoned them and told them this and asked for a renewal quote there and then which was quite expensive. I did a few comparisons and found if I became a "new" Elephant customer then I saved about £200! I took out that policy online, phoned Elephant and used my old policy number to tell them I didn't want to auto-renew but used the same policy number to get my no-claims bonus. It seemed too simple and it was.

I got home four months later and found out that my old policy had auto-renewed and my new policy had started! the first person I phoned was an idiot who wouldn't refund me, luckily my mobile signal "dropped out" and I had to phone again and got onto a normal person who read my file, saw the record of my previous phonecalls and refunded me the cost of my auto-renewed policy.