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General => Insurance => Topic started by: Devilz on 29 May 2012, 17:03

Title: Why
Post by: Devilz on 29 May 2012, 17:03
Why is insurance so bloody high????????????????

I'm trying to get insurance for my 19 year old brother who got his full UK driving licence two months ago. No matter which car I check for insurance, cheapest quote I got is around £8K third party only  :shocked: :shocked: :shocked:

Title: Re: Why
Post by: mcgee9t2 on 29 May 2012, 17:09
cause hes a new driver, and every fooker in this country sticks a whiplash claim in, the £1k+ compo has to come from somewere.

forget anything new and powerful. 1 letre micra or something for a year till he has a years experience and a years ncb, then possibly might be able to get a reasonable quote on a 1.4 or something.
Title: Re: Why
Post by: Ant1981 on 29 May 2012, 17:21
Whiplash claims, accidents caused by sh!t foreign drivers (how they ever got a licence is beyond reasonable grasp) and the payouts from the older crowd who cause accidents. Despite what people think, from what I've seen, between the youngens and the 'experienced', it's the older crowd who are the worst, and possess a combination of impatience, risk taking and incompetence.
Title: Re: Why
Post by: Seanl on 29 May 2012, 18:28
If your only looking at 3rd Party only, try F+T and fully Comp. Most of the time 3rd Party only is more expensive with a new driver as they expect them to not take care of the car and generally not really give a toss.  :wink:
Title: Re: Why
Post by: scarr89 on 29 May 2012, 18:32
Insurance is just savage. For my self, after next years annual renewal I will have paid more than the car is worth on insurance...I know for new drivers that will probably be in their first year!

The whole 'claim' culture that the world has gotten it self into is a f**king joke. The insurance companies greed, and our own, have bought it upon our selves. Always telling your mate to stick in a claim for whiplash for a 10mph collision and then if it isn't your mate it will be insurance companies telling you to turn down £xxxx as it is too low and they think you can get more!

Know we ALL have to pay for it...
Title: Re: Why
Post by: JC on 29 May 2012, 19:47
Why is insurance so bloody high????????????????

I'm trying to get insurance for my 19 year old brother who got his full UK driving licence two months ago. No matter which car I check for insurance, cheapest quote I got is around £8K third party only  :shocked: :shocked: :shocked:



and the cars you have been look at are ?
Title: Re: Why
Post by: Devilz on 29 May 2012, 21:17
Why is insurance so bloody high????????????????

I'm trying to get insurance for my 19 year old brother who got his full UK driving licence two months ago. No matter which car I check for insurance, cheapest quote I got is around £8K third party only  :shocked: :shocked: :shocked:



and the cars you have been look at are ?

The last one I looked at is 2001 Suzuki Ignis, I got 11 years NCB and added him as second driver and quotation was £8126 to be exact  :lipsrsealed:

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Title: Re: Why
Post by: JC on 29 May 2012, 21:20
thats why, they class it as a fronted policy.

Get him out on his own policy ASAP

Add in a OLD, clean record driver, brings it down a LOT

and no point in running him as a named driver as he wont get on the NCB ladder .

Title: Re: Why
Post by: Devilz on 29 May 2012, 21:37
thats why, they class it as a fronted policy.

Get him out on his own policy ASAP

Add in a OLD, clean record driver, brings it down a LOT

and no point in running him as a named driver as he wont get on the NCB ladder .



My licence is clean and shinny like new  :rolleyes: guess I'm not old enough right now

I have changed the policy other way around, made him main driver and added my father as secondary driver and the cheapest quote is £4635 - third party fire & theft  :undecided:

its absolutely joke, car is Nissan Micra 998 CC and the price we paid for it is £450
Title: Re: Why
Post by: mcgee9t2 on 29 May 2012, 22:58
yepp it is a joke, try with out people on too.

i know for my first year mine was about 500 quid cheeper with my dad on my policy (5+years ncb, 15+years driving, 0 points ect ect ect)
but the last two years it has made it about 400 quid more expensive
Title: Re: Why
Post by: dTEA on 30 May 2012, 08:15
What is the craic with all the different variations to be able to bring the price down. It's just dumb. It's nearly as bad as the power suppliers variations for gas/elec and online billing, paid monthly on a supersaver with the first x amount of units at higher price.

This country needs to regulate these barstewards better and enforce simple clear policies for people. They throw that many options you could take a week "finding" the best deal. The amount of hidden things you may not need on the policy (breakdown/legal assist/courtesy car) are all things that add to your price.

We live in a just in case society  :lipsrsealed:
Title: Re: Why
Post by: Devilz on 30 May 2012, 22:04
any other way to get him insurance which is not this much high  :undecided: :undecided:
Title: Re: Why
Post by: golfyste on 31 May 2012, 08:24
My first years insurance when I was 17 was 3000 which about the cheapest you can get it for your first year nowadays and that was on a 1.3 Toyota starlet, puttin older males on doesn't make much differnece try and add women I had and still do have my mum and my brothers fiancée on my polish and it makes it a goo £400+ cheaper
Title: Re: Why
Post by: Egg On Toast on 04 June 2012, 22:13
tried money supermarket? im 21 with 3 years no claims and insure my 2.0 8v gti for 603 a year :)
Title: Re: Why
Post by: Shady Pioneer on 04 June 2012, 23:04
Insurance also really depends on what you're after. I'm 23 with 2 years no claims. Insured with Sky Insurance and covers all my mods like for like (unlike places like Admiral who will only replace mods with manufacturer spec).

I pay just over £1K mind.
Title: Re: Why
Post by: Jay on 05 June 2012, 10:10
Definitely try other comparison sites, because there can and WILL be huge differences in price. To get my learner wife on my current policy is impossible (she is 29), any other way bumps it up significantly - but it has to be done.
Title: Re: Why
Post by: 1stevester1 on 05 June 2012, 17:40
Depends lots where you live I.e postcode I moved 15 miles away mine dropped from 1700 odd to 1197 if you go with tesco and got a club card they give and extra 20% off may help
Title: Re: Why
Post by: Dogbot on 05 June 2012, 17:46
Go direct with reputable companies, my wife's lupo is her first car, she is 26, no Ncb, engine conversion (doubled horsepower) updated brakes, coilovers alloys and agreed insurance value, £670 a year I'm on as a named driver an I added £26 to the policy with my 4 years Ncb, go figure her insurance is £32 cheaper than mine! It makes no sense at all, trying to get my 17 year old brother a quote less than £1700 on a 1300 mk2  at the moment but go direct to companies like sky, HIc, admiral and such always bestest!! Good luck, that seems to be working for us anyhow
Title: Re: Why
Post by: thfc_123 on 04 July 2012, 12:42
With my insurance my sister brings it down for some reason. I put my mum and dad on there and they have clean licences plenty of years experince etc and they bring it down a couple of hundred, but when I put my 24 year old sister who has only had a licence 2 years longer than me brings it down by a grand. Strange :-\