confused.com -Any other car insurance comparison sites ??

peter999

Apart from confused.com, are there any other car insurance comparison sites out there ??

Any recommendations ??

Never checked my car insurance quote online, just tried confused.com & I like the flexibility.

peter999

anewman

http://www.tescocompare.com/
http://www.comparethemarket.com/
http://www.moneysupermarket.com/insurance/

Some info here... http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/insurance/compare-cheap-car-insurance

I would also try checking the sites the comparison sites do not cover. One notable one is https://www.ecarinsurance.com

Mr_Pink_3

Worth noting that Direct Line are not involved with any comparison sites so it may be worth running your details through their site.

There's little more boring than filling out the same details on insurance websites time after time is there?

peter999

Just renewed 2 car policies through confused.com.

Saved £67 on 1st policy & £93 on 2nd policy (total saving £160, based on paying monthly).

It's a pity Churchill fell back into the insurance company habit of standard annual increases & decided to increase renewals by 11+% this year, then weren't interested in reducing this.

Bit silly as new policies with Churchill would have been cheaper than cheapest renewal they offered.

Churchill Policy1: renewal quote =£170, new policy quote =£148
Churchill Policy2: renewal quote =£228 then £211, new policy quote =£197

peter999

GH

FWIW I found better prices on comparethemarket.com than on confused.com

raskazz

Make sure you check all the insurers available through Quidco too.

peter999

peter999 wrote: »

It's a pity Churchill fell back into the insurance company habit of standard annual increases & decided to increase renewals by 11+% this year, then weren't interested in reducing this.

Bit silly as new policies with Churchill would have been cheaper than cheapest renewal they offered.

They're covering this gripe on BBC1 One Show now that best deals are for "new customers only".

peter999

peter999

Should have read these articles first.

Slash The Cost Of Car Insurance -It Pays to Watch
http://www.itpaystowatch.co.uk/main-story/3136328846,97522

use the web-based ‘screenscraping’ comparison services. With these you enter your details which are then zipped to a raft of insurers and brokers, scraping the quotes off their screens to bring you back the cheapest price. Yet no comparison site searches the whole market so you need to use multiple ones to ensure you get quotes from as many insurers as possible

The key is to do it in the correct order, that way maximising the number of quotes in the shortest time. This is done by analysing the coverage of each screenscraper.

The current order is as follows:
Moneysupermarket, Confused.com, Compare the Market, Tesco Compare, Uswitch then Go Compare;
it's also worth adding in Direct Line as its often price competitive but not included by any comparison service

MSE: Car Insurance: Tricks and tactics to cut the cost
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/insurance/cheap-car-insurance-tricks?utm_source=week4&utm_medium=internet&utm_campaign=Itpaystowatch

MSE: Cheap Car Insurance
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/insurance/compare-cheap-car-insurance

peter999

claire1847

just going through this car insurance quote process now, could it be any more dull?! also the quotes change dramatically from the results on the 'scrapers' to the final result once they ask a few more questions. My £93 from Post Office suddenly became £272.61 and I sure can't see why the hell that shoulda happened! oh well, onwards and upwards! guess it's all not made for blondes with short attention spans, even those of us that have brains :rotfl:

x Claire

anewman

Peculiarly I had the opposite. Got a renewal quote from my insurance company and shopped around. All quotes were more than my renewal quote, and even confused.com had my insurer down as costing at least £200 more with all the same details.

tali

claire1847 wrote: »

just going through this car insurance quote process now, could it be any more dull?! also the quotes change dramatically from the results on the 'scrapers' to the final result once they ask a few more questions. My £93 from Post Office suddenly became £272.61 and I sure can't see why the hell that shoulda happened! oh well, onwards and upwards! guess it's all not made for blondes with short attention spans, even those of us that have brains :rotfl:

x Claire

This has happened many times to me on moneysupermarket- i find it a scandal - get !!!!!!!! like "it's only a guide price" "we have nothing to do with moneysupermarket" - pure deception as far as i am concerned -OFT should be stopping this fraud