Should I try and Haggle Insurance quote?
Should I try and Haggle Insurance quote?
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wallywalts

Original Poster:

11 posts

182 months

Monday 19th September 2011
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I followed Money Saving Experts excellent guide on how to find the cheapest car insurance and managed to get the insurance down from £1600 to just over a £1000 on my Cayman 2.7 (picking it up on Saturday!) with Admiral (with 0 years no claims too!)

Now I know I have the cheapest quote is there anything to be gained from ringing them up and haggling for more off or am I just wasting my time?

RedSpiseeBalls

441 posts

190 months

Monday 19th September 2011
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No harm trying

kustard

51 posts

224 months

Monday 19th September 2011
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Yeah, give it a go smile Out of interest do you have a link to the MSE article? Trying to find a good quote for the missus at the moment

wallywalts

Original Poster:

11 posts

182 months

Monday 19th September 2011
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just follow this:
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/insurance/compare...

To save time you should try Tesco Compare, came up with the cheapest quote with Admiral, then once I had that I was able to go Admiral's site and tweak the quote to further reduce it.

Interestingly Moneysupermarket (with the same details entered) came out at £300 more expensive with Admiral.

wallywalts

Original Poster:

11 posts

182 months

Monday 19th September 2011
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Heres the link to Tesco Compare

http://www.tescocompare.com/car.shtml

speed8

5,128 posts

304 months

Tuesday 20th September 2011
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Be careful with the Admiral quote.

They gave me a suspiciously cheap quote online (own website and comparisons) and when I looked at the details to figure out why i noticed that they had changed the car value from my input of what it would cost me to replace it to their estimate of what you would get from webuyanycar or equivalent. Based on that I didn't go with them as it made me wonder if they would try and get away with offering a pittance and claiming that I input the low value to get a cheaper rate.

Tino

1,948 posts

314 months

Tuesday 20th September 2011
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Give Henderson Taylor a try
0161 437 7442

wallywalts

Original Poster:

11 posts

182 months

Sunday 25th September 2011
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Thanks for the advice, I rang Admiral to haggle the price but they said thats the cheapest they could go and I believed them.

rhkumar

164 posts

187 months

Monday 26th September 2011
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Speak to bill Morley at Clifton Morley associates and tell him rohit gave you the number. Hve had 7 cars done and no one has come close to him. And the underwriters are the top 5 companies.

Hyper10

432 posts

200 months

Monday 26th September 2011
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We insured our cars with Admiral for 7 years, this year despite no claims the premium jumped nearly 60%, every year I've sort of haggled but this time I just looked around.
Privilege were way,way cheaper for exactly the same cover and they do a type of mutlicar policy.
Admiral just continued to take the p**s for too long

clarkmagpie

3,710 posts

226 months

Monday 26th September 2011
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Bridal are looking the cheapest for me this time round
6 track days thrown in as well.

Still looking but they maybe worth a try.