car insurance auto renewal

RedDog123

It is 3 weeks before my renewal and i got an invitation to renew via email, this also informed me that my compulsory excess was going up from £450 to  wait for it !! £5,000.
Had i not seen this email warning me then my insurance would have "auto renewed" and when / if i were to make a claim i would then have to stump up the £5,000 excess.  I spoke to One Call (my insurers) and all they could do was offer me a £650 excess but with a policy premium of £2500.
so i have cancelled it.
So just a warning out there to be vigilant at renewal time

Mr.Generous

Those Ferrari's are expensive to cover!

RedDog123

I wish !!
Range rover Evoque, one of the most common cars around

daveyjp

One of the most common to be stolen too.  A friend had to sell his Range Rover as the insurance went up to well in to 4 figures.

400ixl

RedDog123 said:

I wish !!
Range rover Evoque, one of the most common cars around

Lucky you can even get insurance then. And its far from a common car.

Everyone should check the details of their auto-renewal and ensure it is competitive every year. So nothing new really on that front.

Good luck in finding something reasonable, hope you do.

Mr.Generous

daveyjp said:

One of the most common to be stolen too.  A friend had to sell his Range Rover as the insurance went up to well in to 4 figures.

Also expensive to repair which affects insurance costs. Apart from electric cars the highest depreciation car's in the UK are all Range/Land Rover luxury cars. My mate has one and is hoping it gets nicked because trade in is less than finance, it has electrical faults regularly, it consumes fuel like a bus and his insurance has doubled from an already high premium.