A8 Car insurance time

[Singh]

Yep, I bought the RS6 when I was 20 and couldn't get insured. So my dad insured it under his name and I locked it away, Dad is 59, Manager,5 Years NCB,20k Value,Tracker and he paid under £200 iirc, I cannot remember exactly but it was stupid cheap. I am paying £1600 at 21 with 0 NCB, policy in my name and 1 fault claim at £3k as I tapped someone in my Beemer last November, quite pleased at that to be honest, I was paying £1900 on the BMW and that was only a 2.0 D! OK, so the excess is £1,000, but you can get insurance to cover your excess for £50 a year and it saves your a few hundred upping the excess in my case.

[Adrian E]

Originally Posted by Adrian E

Mine's due next week - having a nightmare on quotes for both s8 and a6 and can't get below £1k for the 2 despite 9 & 6 yrs no claims bonus and clean licenses. Claim for s8 mirror theft not helping....

Originally Posted by sloss

I just renewed recently with Swiftcover

Well with a combined renewal at £1032 for my S8 and A6 3.0 petrol estate I've had to spend a few hours this week looking at options.

Doesn't help that the mirror saga cost over £2k to resolve and we also had a new windscreen on the A6 this year.

For the A6 I was getting all sorts of prices as we've 'only' got 6 yrs NCB on that, but after doing a meerkat quote Swiftcover (part of Axa) came in WAY below anyone else. Unfortunately they seem to think our model of A6 only came as a manual, when in fact it was only available as an automatic so cue some phone calls where they manage to change it to a 4.2 and increase the excess by £250 as a result and double the premium! After much messing about they did finally manage to change it to an auto after I'd bought the policy for just under £305, compared to renewal of £545 from Adrian Flux.

The S8 ended up being a bit simpler, despite the mods. Ruled out '1st central' as they're Gibralter based and not fully covered by FSA which sounded far too dodgy. Despite Admiral being the insurer who covered me when the claim was made for the mirrors they came in very competitive. Renewal was £487 (9 yrs NCB) and Admiral quoted £450. Rang Adrian Flux back and they've done it for £440 so broadly happy with that in the circumstances.

Nearly £300 saved, albeit at the expense of doing anything 'fun' on a Saturday.....good job I sorted it, as it expires Sunday night and I'd have had to declare the S8 SORN to avoid a fine if I waited till Monday!

Adrian

[think_or_thwim]

I had a lot of hassle with my present insurer Adrian Flux as all my no claims is on the S4. Only got 2 yrs on second car so reasonably happy with quote. Group 47 out of 50!

Chris Knott very good and half of AF. Sky insurance was also pretty close but wanted a big deposit.

[Goran]

Admiral are trying a new trick this year, they have not even sent me a renewal notice, there is only 7 days to go. I almost forgot it was running out. I'll have to prod them to see whats going on.