21 replies to this topic

[alicetheauto]

If you get problems, try mentioning if it is not resolved by a certain date then you will be contacting the FSA. Anyone issuing credit (monthly payments) has to follow a code of conduct. Look in the Traders reviews section, I have a thread there about Lancasters doing the renewal thiing on me. I got all the money back (except a tenner, but I had lost the will to argue!). I have found HIC is the cheapest for me, at 24 with a standard 998 in a dodgy Leicester postcode. £216 tpf&t.
Watch out for the renewal prices they send you on auto renewals, as mine went from £198/year in year 1 to £604 in year 2 (without my even knowing I had a policy with them!).

[scsracing]

How much are they asking,i can insure my 87 mayfair with a 1275 for £816 fully comp with £350 excess or £486 3rd party.I am 17 soon and got this quote today when i was at bingley hall.

Was that on your provisional?

All of my quotes are over £1400+

It was with footman james and the guy did the quote as if i had my full licence for only 1 day as i don't even have my provisional yet,although it is in the post

[Matt.P]

Well, I gave those peter James chaps a ring and they knocked a grand off my previous quotes! Top guys that can see that we're not all chavs wearing hats backwards.

[Clubby 73]

I can't get classic car insurance with a provisional so have to pay £1700 until i pass and even then some people wont come near me because im not 23+
However my mate has told me he is getting learners insurance for something like £90 a month and you only pay for three months at a time i think, good times
Luke

[nicksuth]

Bloody AA have just done same to me, I even have an email from them saying my membership will be cancelled at midnight 31/01/10 and how sorry they are to lose me, *melon*'s !!!

[pepper20]

has any body else heard about the age discrimination? wen i turned 21, my insurance dropped 400 over nite. as far as im aware im still the same i was wen i was 20 so not a clue why they did this. oh, and its not just me, loads of my mates have had huge reductions just for geting older. the weird thing is tho, we all drive faster and with better cars so guna cost more when we crash.
my first insurance was £2500 for a 1.7td astravan, it well takes the micky
im now 21 and pay £1800 for a 1.6i astravan
but hey, im self employed so i get it back! yay!

[alicetheauto]

To me £1800 for a 21year-old on a diesel van seems excessive really, I have never paid more than £900 even when I had an MG Midget 1500 as my first car when I was 19. Wrote that off 5 years ago, got a modded Mini and the premium went DOWN to £570, even with the smash declared? I gvuess its classed as a business vehicle, so maybe rates are different?