Sorry, never started a thread before and no idea if this is in the right topic....
But AIBU to think that over the last 12 months, given that I have not made a claim, my no claims bonus has gone up a year (it's ten years as it is!) and my one single speeding conviction has completely expired, that my car insurance shouldn't have gone up by TWO HUNDRED QUID?
My insurance company charged me £500-odd quid last year, which seemed reasonable as I live in a city centre, car is parked on the street and it is an easily stealable soft top (nothing fancy, just a cheapy Mazda). Nothing has changed yet I am now more of a risk to the tune of 200 smackers!
Is this down to these people faking claims and raising everyone's premiums as a result, the fact that they are now steering away from women getting lower premiums (although the law won't actually change till next year) or is it simply down to everything going up generally?
The Meerkat and Annoying Singing Man sites have come up with a few prices at roughly the same as last year but they are with insurance companies that I have never heard of and that review sites say are shite.......
Who do you have insurance with? Are there any obvious ones I'm missing that don't come up on these comparison sites?
Any suggestions gratefully taken on board....
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AIBU?
to think that my car insurance should have gone DOWN???
PaintedToenails · 15/07/2011 21:08
Hello, I work in car insurance & we've been told by underwriters that insurance prems have gone up by as much as 40% in the last 12 months. Try Mazda insurance as well for a quote - 08448003612...
Btw, after 9 years no claims bonus, your discount comes to a halt 
It's an Ahhhtrage!
Do the elderly still get discount insurance from Saga? If so, I shall complain that this is discriminatory also, as I cannot help when I was born and therefore should not have to suffer financial loss as a result!
Plus, I am less likely to crash into the back of the car in front because I am hunting through the glove box for Werther's Original instead of looking where I was going (albeit at twelve miles an hour, whilst wearing a hat)!!!!
P.S. I'm not actually stereotyping ALL people over 55, or whatever Saga's recruitment age is, I'm just having a rant at the inequalities of...well.....car insurance....
Steffi Welcome! Firsts all round....
Clean Thanks, I'll look into those, may have to just give the better part of tomorrow over to insurance hunting....oh well.....
Born...just saw an advert for LV so I checked them out...guess I'm not one of the millions laughing happily at their ridiculously cheap insurance...they quoted me over 800 quid! 
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I'm with Swiftcover already, pantaloons....it's been fab as all I have to do is just print off a certificate if I need one, as opposed to having to find the original under 18 tonnes of crap in my beautifully organised filing system.....I guess Iggy is just charging more this year
Christ on a bike, altinkum, my first car was a 1l Micra....I think the insurance was about 120 quid a year.....it's truly shocking!
we had 2 cars on admiral's multi car policy - the quote doubled this year from last year 
I followed most of the info about getting the best insurance price on the www.moneysavingexpert.com website and got it back down to almost half of what the quote had been - ie about the same as last year.
I had to go with different insurers for the two cars but for that sort of saving was happy to! (Admiral had been very much cheaper for the first year of the multicar thing, obviously to draw us in) I ended up paying a bit more because I went for insurance with a couple of big name people that I had already heard of rather than the ones that I'd never heard of.
However when I rang up Admiral to cancel my policy and told them why they were able to match it (too late by then as I'd already paid for the other insurance) - the lady i was chatting to was saying that - especially if you say that you have several quotes around the cheapest price there is a good chance you might get it matched. I'd also put your details in again through their website and see what they would give you if you were a new customer so you can point out that they wouldn't have to pay any referral fees if they matched the price. But definitely worth asking them directly to match it once you have all the figures! Also then if they do get down to an acceptable price it is much easier if you stay with the same company as you don't have to start sending no claims certificates etc around!
good luck...
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My car insurance goes up every year. I can't remember the last time it was static let alone went down.
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