car insurance renewal time again

smoky_joe

now i know everything in life gets more expensive but car insurance is a law off its own
two years ago the insurance cost £248 for fully comp, last year £265 and this years renewal is £330 now thats a joke surelly :rolleyes:
after all the car is another year older and has devalued by a good few thousand since i purchased it, so why has it jumped up by such a large amount if it had only been £20 odd pounds then i woud have stayed with them;)

so which are the best insurance comparison sites as it looks like i will have to shop around:mad: which i hate doing takes ages and then your never sure if the company you choose is any good.

Swans1912

Have you tried to get a quote from the same company online? May sound silly but we save £180 by getting a new quote online from direct line and then spending 10 minutes on the phone (using a geo number ) while they put the renewal through with an additional discount. Oh and we paid on the AMEX cash-back so 5% discount again!

wornoutmumoftwo

Try and go through a cashback site such as Quidco or Topcashback
We got 40.00 back from doing our insurance this way.

abr

beware of quidco:mad:
i tried them last year it never tracked
cleared cookies used firefox said i could get £120 cashback using quidco and LTSB
cost me more money in the end
my advice don't rely on the cashback site

wornoutmumoftwo

My car insurance tracked ok, but they losy my butlins transaction

abr

well i've used quidco about 6 times and it has only tracked once that was for 54p late last year
i have never received any cashback from them at all:mad:

Steve1981

a lot of people are going on about premiums going up - everythings going up, shopping is about 20% than it was 18 months ago. Remember all the flooding that happened in the last year - this will have an impact on premiums. Also take into consideration that companies add between 5 & 10% to a policy at renewal, if you go online you might get a 10-15% discount - so you could be up to 20% with the same company as an online customer - add that to any cashback you might be able to get and you might be laughing.

Steve1981

abr wrote: »

well i've used quidco about 6 times and it has only tracked once that was for 54p late last year
i have never received any cashback from them at all:mad:

you must have a problem your end then, out of 154 purchases I have had 152 track and pay - only 2 that didnt was from HMV and they were downloads, so that probably had something to do with it