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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: Catnapper on 19 June 2020, 20:00
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Renewal through and £50 more than last year.
Onto comparison websites and cheapest equivalent is £100 more.
Even going to existing company website for new quote and it's £150 more.
Anyone else finding this.
Only thing different is I've turned 50!!!!
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Same as you.
Mine was around £30 more this year, could find it any cheaper even using the meerkats, confused and direct. Must be an age thing as I'm also in my 50's. Even tried Saga, but they were way more.
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Got my renewal through, gone up from £264 last year to £274. We're both in our fifties....
I couldn't see any justification for a price increase when the press says premiums are coming down so went on Moneysupermarket. Accepted their second best quote ( I hadn't heard of the first company) of £185 fully comp for me & SWMBO, business cover for both of us....
Saving £90 took about 45 minutes faffing but I was on lockdown anyway...
That's faster than I can earn it..... :cool:
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Mine's not due for renewal until the end of August but I got hammered when I changed my car in February. Just hoping the change from partial fault to no fault from an accident will make a difference.
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Mine is due in September. It’s always been under or around £200 but it’s going up this year. Two weeks before lockdown I was caught speeding and incurred my first points in 28 years of driving. The perils of owning a GTI... However, I’ve gone from doing 150 miles a week to about 45 miles a month, so the saving in fuel will more than offset it.
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If I'd have been in the GTI for another year, was looking at around £700 up from £400 last due to a house move. Couldn't find anything under about £800 for an R or TCR as was considering opting out of the company car and buying my own.
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Mine is due in September. It’s always been under or around £200 but it’s going up this year. Two weeks before lockdown I was caught speeding and incurred my first points in 28 years of driving. The perils of owning a GTI... However, I’ve gone from doing 150 miles a week to about 45 miles a month, so the saving in fuel will more than offset it.
Those speeding tickets, the gift that keeps giving. The period of endorsement only lasts 3 years yet the insurance companies punish you for 5 years.
Got my 1 and only speeding ticket in 2013 for doing 46mph in a 30mph zone that had always been a 30mph zone up until about 2 weeks before I was caught (found that out afterwards). The mobile sneak units had been parked illegally to capture everyone - there was uproar about it.
The reason for the speed limit decrease? A pedestrian fatality. Some might say fair enough, except the fatality was a police car that mowed down someone in the early hours of the morning doing about 70mph with their blue lights on (which they'd do again in an emergency situation, even though the speed limit is now 30mph).
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Mine is due in September. It’s always been under or around £200 but it’s going up this year. Two weeks before lockdown I was caught speeding and incurred my first points in 28 years of driving. The perils of owning a GTI... However, I’ve gone from doing 150 miles a week to about 45 miles a month, so the saving in fuel will more than offset it.
Those speeding tickets, the gift that keeps giving. The period of endorsement only lasts 3 years yet the insurance companies punish you for 5 years.
Got my 1 and only speeding ticket in 2013 for doing 46mph in a 30mph zone that had always been a 30mph zone up until about 2 weeks before I was caught (found that out afterwards). The mobile sneak units had been parked illegally to capture everyone - there was uproar about it.
The reason for the speed limit decrease? A pedestrian fatality. Some might say fair enough, except the fatality was a police car that mowed down someone in the early hours of the morning doing about 70mph with their blue lights on (which they'd do again in an emergency situation, even though the speed limit is now 30mph).
There's no winners in that story is there...
I got a speeding ticket at 18 and paid the very expensive price for 5 years after that, at a time when because of my age premiums were high anyway. I tried to learn my lesson from that....
Your 46 in what you thought was a 40 ( but was 30) is just bad luck, nearly been caught out like that a few times, but an ordinary speedo would have been indicating nearly 50. One you will have to take on the chin I think....
And the police car incident is a real tragedy, I know the pressures they are under at times when colleagues are calling for urgent assistance, but as per their training, absolutely no incident they are going to is worth having an accident en route..
But as you say, perverse that that was used to justify lowering the limit.
A few lessons there for all of us.
On a similar theme, two dual carriageways near us have had the limit reduced from 70 to 50 to cut pollution ( !) Lots of letters in the local press asking if it will be raised to 70 again when EV's take off. I can guess the answer to that....
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^ Typo on my part. It had been a 50mph road. It's not residential.
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We have just had insurance renewal through for our 2nd car which is a 10 year old Polo GTI, gone up from about £180 to just over £200. Still a 10% increase. :angry: