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Offline leighj

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cheap insurance companies???
« on: 12 March 2008, 14:01 »
My brother has just turned 17 and bought a 1.6 focus the other week
been looking at insurance prices for him and all seem to be bout 2 grand, bar 1 which was £1600

do you know of any insurance companies that are cheap?

Offline Wizzkidd

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Re: cheap insurance companies???
« Reply #1 on: 12 March 2008, 20:44 »
Try LV Liverpool Victoria.

im 19 got a 1.4 golf and live in a very high risk area in manchester and mines £1600

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Re: cheap insurance companies???
« Reply #2 on: 31 March 2008, 15:02 »
Kwik Fit aren't bad on insurance, at least they weren't for my 1.8 Golf.

Offline VapourTrails

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Re: cheap insurance companies???
« Reply #3 on: 31 March 2008, 15:05 »
dont think your goner get much better, my cousin got it on a Ka 1.3 and it was £1400 for his first year.

Offline 20vt_paul

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Re: cheap insurance companies???
« Reply #4 on: 31 March 2008, 15:38 »
i'm 23 got a traders policy and can drive anything including cosworths, lambos and skylines for £1150 per year

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Re: cheap insurance companies???
« Reply #5 on: 01 April 2008, 01:25 »
bell.co.uk

even if you have to do the 9month policy.

Offline Kermit

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Re: cheap insurance companies???
« Reply #6 on: 01 April 2008, 11:06 »
I've just been on the insurance treadmill the last 2 weeks - the most competitive was Swiftcover and you can manage your policy online. The attraction for me was that the standard policy covered factory options whereas on some other I had to declare these and this bumped the price. HIC couldn't get near the quote....  But I'm 29, 7 NCB, 07 GTI and SP30

As Mikester said - if this is his first policy it may be a good idea to do one of the bonus accelerater schemes as you get 1yr NCB after 9-10 months
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Offline Tom H

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Re: cheap insurance companies???
« Reply #7 on: 01 April 2008, 11:27 »


As Mikester said - if this is his first policy it may be a good idea to do one of the bonus accelerater schemes as you get 1yr NCB after 9-10 months

Be wary of these though, not all companies will accept your no claims bonus if you get it with one of these.

Offline Kermit

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Re: cheap insurance companies???
« Reply #8 on: 01 April 2008, 11:46 »


As Mikester said - if this is his first policy it may be a good idea to do one of the bonus accelerater schemes as you get 1yr NCB after 9-10 months

Be wary of these though, not all companies will accept your no claims bonus if you get it with one of these.

Tom - Can't comment on this as I did the accelerator with Bell and they were competitive on the renewal so carried it over no probs
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Offline gtibob

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Re: cheap insurance companies???
« Reply #9 on: 01 April 2008, 11:50 »
As someone else said on this subject, cheapest might not be the best. You are only likely to find out if you make a claim. Recently Post Office insurance cancelled my policy due to an admin. error and left me driving uninsured. I received the letter informing me 2 days later.