Insurance - recommendations?

[Dibble]

Just about to start trawling the web for insurance for the new (to me) VFR - should be picking it up next Thursday.

Any recommendations on insurers? I'm looking for ease of use/straight online quote, without having to leave a load of personal details so I get endless calls/spam from them for ever after.

If you've ever had to claim, who has been good, and not so good?

Direct or borker?

Or should I just do what I normally do, go into Swinton, get them to do (most of) the hard work, then just phone the best three direct and get a few quid off?

[Sossige]

I rang around a few brokers/companies yesterday - I tried Swinton but just got a gut feeling that I shouldn't go with them. Not sure why, but it definitely didn't help the chap on the phone calling me "mate" every other word. Quite happy for him to have used my first name, but every other word being "mate" was just a bit off putting.

I got my best quote and then rang Carole Nash back. They were able to get pretty close to the best quote, so I went with them on the recommendation of my friends.

I get the impression that it's pretty competitive, so don't be afraid to palm them off against one another!

[Momentofmadness]

H&R were always competitive until last years' quote http://www.insurance2000.co.uk/

Now with Bennetts http://www.bennetts.co.uk/

[welsh blackbird]

The cheapest for my Blackbird, surprisingly, is:-

http://www.honda.co.uk/insurance/

Beat Carole Nash/Bennets etc by some margin.

Hope you enjoy your VFR, Dibble

[Yoda954]

I used to be with MCE, but after them 'forgetting' to list my mods so as to be able to offer me a competitive quote last year (luckily I checked before going ahead!) I'm now with NU (via a broker) who are much more 'mod' friendly FWIW etc

Honda insurance (who I originally insured the 'blade through, cheaply) are, or were (?) Devitts...who have a pretty dreadful customer service IME etc...and wouldn't touch a modified bike by which I mean even an aftermarket 'legal' exhaust

If you've got no modifications (at all!) you should have an easy 'quote ride' I'd imagine...but maybe give NU a go

Edited by Yoda954 on Sunday 15th June 18:57

[dern]

H&R for me after seeing them handle a claim from france when a mate had an accident. All smoothly handled, hire car provided there and then, claim handled very favourably and speedily.

[Rubin215]

I've had some amazing quotes for both car and bike from gocompare.com.

Last car one was £100 less than renewal.

Wifes quote for her TT600 was less than the same company (motorcycle direct) quoted her directly, then when we followed the quote through from the gocompare site, it was suddenly £10 cheaper still!

[R1_JON]

Another vote for H&R...

[smack]

Used to use eBike.

Now Bennetts because they started to become cheaper.

Both have been fine.

[Busamav]

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