Well re-newal time has come around - but as I'll be changing my car when this policies up I decided the renewal was good only for toilet paper and started looking for a new quote!
At renewal time I'm going to be ditching my current mk3 8v daily and moving into my nice shiney new VR6 - so I did the usual and looked on confused.com, and found the cheapest quotes around the £900 mark!
I was kinda surprised, but though I'd see how much of a differnce it might make if I put the standard alloys back on and it dropped to around £500!! Is that much of a jump normal for just adding alloys?! (I just ammedned the previous quote by the way, so all the other details were identical)
I called the HIC renewal line, explained everything, and their quote, with the alloys was again around £900...without the wheels - over £1000!! That got me wondering, does it sound like the renewal line was cheking all the possible companies and contracts (or whatever they're called) or just the same one that I had previously with new details?
If these prices seem high anyway - I'm told the prices are inflated because I have an unresolved claim, and when it's resolved as a non-fault claim (which it should) the price will drop significantly, and I can get a refund on the difference - so hopefuly that'll come through quite quickly now and help me out, but I could still do with shelling out as little as possible in the mean time!
Also - is there any kind of "theft only" policy that I can insure my VR6 on until the new policy starts? I'm just thinking that it's going to be sitting on my drive for the next couple of weeks, uninsured as it won't be moving, but I'm slightly worried that some toerag might have it away on thier toes with it and leave me with nothing!
