Tesco Insurance quote bizarreness

[CraigAlsop]

Just trying to get an insurance quote through the Tescos web site & find that if my Chimaera was a 5 litre it would be £511, but as it's a 4.5 litre it is £744.
WTF!!??!!

[squirrelz]

What about a 4-litre, £1k+ ?????

[imuir]

You could try Peart on 01539730666, I used them for the Boxster S then the Griff same price

[xxplod]

Just insure it as a 5.0L. They'll never know.

[CraigAlsop]

imuir said:

You could try Peart on 01539730666, I used them for the Boxster S then the Griff same price

Just tried them - £880

[roadsweeper]

Craig

One of these guys should be able to give you a good deal:

A Manning UK Ltd: [phone]
A1: [phone]
Cheam: [phone]
Classicline TVR: [phone]
Heritage: [phone]
Norwich Union Direct: [phone]
Peart: [phone]
Sunninghill: [phone]

A Manning insured my 1999 TVR Chimaera 400 for £670 fully comp, living in Cheshire, with NCB protection, track day cover and legal cover. I had 8yrs NCB and limited the mileage to 5,000 p.a. The car is garaged overnight.

I hope this helps.

[icb]

Got my Griff 500 with Tesco for £548

[JonRB]

I got similar situation with Elephant

A 1999 S4 2.7 Twin-Turbo worth £16k came out at £508 whilst a 2001 RS4 worth £36k came out at £501.

[anonymous-user]

Tesco's are very erratic.

They quoted me a figure, can't remember which car now, but they gave me a figure and an excess.

I asked to up the excess to bring the quote down.
It did the opposite the excess went up and so did the premium

So I asked him to revert back to the original excess, which he did, but couldn't get the quote back to the same figure he originally quoted.

Needless to say I didn't bother with them.

My Supra is through AA, and the TVR through Sunninghill who have just quoted me £792

A bit better than the £917 I was paying last year.

Lee

[pesty]

have you tried liverpool victoria?

[DustyC]

Tescos gave me an excellent quote BUT...
I called back to change a small thing...quote still good.

Called back a third time to confirm everything before collecting car* and suddenly the quote doubled!
They totally cocked it all up.
I put in a formal complaint since they had already wasted poo loads of my time.

(*and then to top it all the car was gone too )

[RichardR]

I just got a good quote from Cheam for the S3 which was £120 cheaper than my renewal quote from NU Direct.

DustyC said:

(*and then to top it all the car was gone too )

You don't seem to be having much luck tracking a TVR down, but just remember that good things come to those who wait!

Does that make you feel any better?

[DustyC]

What does make me feel better is that I havent even been looking for as long as a lot of TVR owners did for their cars.

The weekend searches are interesting days out anyway so I dont mind too much.

[Painey]

Can't recommend Sunninghill enough personally. Just renewed the insurance on my N Reg Griff which is insured for £16,500, garaged overnight and limited mileage to 6,000. Plus they cover trackdays and include legel expenses etc etc.

I've got one years no claims bonus, 28 years old and live a few miles north of Brighton. Cost of premium = £530. It's a deal, it's a steal...

Cheers - Chris

[swindorski46]

Got a gleaming quote from Tescos for my Cerb, but every time I called back and quoted my reference it came up with a BMW Z3?

End of the day, the paperwork says TVR Cerbera, so if they want to insure me for the cost as a Z3 that's up to them!

[jessica]

imuir said:

You could try Peart on 01539730666, I used them for the Boxster S then the Griff same price

They quoted me 2,135 ;ast yr this yr it's Wait for it!!!!!!!!!!!!


£1350.

I went to classicline £876....can you work out why???

edited to add 5 litre Chim 1 yr no claims(full no claims on other car) aged 40 not points 1 accident 2 yrs ago. in my other car popped a sill on a low brick wall..

>> Edited by jessica on Thursday 25th March 22:34

[CraigAlsop]

roadsweeper said:

Craig One of these guys should be able to give you a good deal: I hope this helps.

Many thanks for all the numbers - here's my rundown of figures (might be useful as a comparison for other folks)
A Manning were over £1,000
Peart were £880
Sunninghill were £840
Tescos (phone) were £803
A1 were £799
Performance Car Insurance (0161 2785226) were £650 (they haven't confirmed this yet to me)
Cheam were £575 and included track days

At this point I stopped & went for Cheam (they were cool about my Mark Adams chip & different brakes as well)
The other thing was that this included commuting to/from work & the car ungaraged - apparently people like A1 can do it for under £500 if I didn't want to commute, and also garaged the car.

[DustyC]

Craig, is that insured as a second car?

[CraigAlsop]

DustyC said:

Craig, is that insured as a second car?

Nope - both my cars are insured with "first car" status - e.g. commute, not low mileage, not garaged etc.

[TT Tim]

These quotes are all well and good, but who are the underwriters?

I personally pay a bit extra for a known underwriter and the knowledge that should I need to make a claim I'm not going to get shafted!

Just my 2 penneth, and for the record Tescos just quoted me £690 on the 500 with a lower excess than my current insurer, unlimied mileage and protected NCD. Underwriters were Equity Red Star.

I'll see what they quote come Setp when my renewal is due.

Tim

>> Edited by TT Tim on Friday 26th March 11:08