Admiral just sent me my multicar quote for the next year. 4 cars, inc. one insured directly for 18yr old daughter.

�2472 (increase of �500 on last year, with the added bonus that daughter passed her test which generates an increased premium in any case!)

So half an hour on confused.com produced the following quotes:

From Admiral: �1715

From four separate companies: �1208

I'll be going back to Admiral for a price matching session, but I am tempted to give them the finger and deal with four companies to get best price.

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Pain in the ass every year joe but you are doing it right I end up changing nearly every year to the best quote only thing I do is stick with a named company because M Mouse insurance brokers might have folded if I prang it!! Mine was a blue one!

tim, go through 'compare the market.com' and get a meerkat toy..anyone got a 'sergai'... ... - .- -.




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You should count yourself lucky, I pay nearly �2500 for two cars (FFRR SC / Mazda RX-, and thats with the missus on the policy too! 

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Admiral wanted more to add the other halfs new Fiat 500, to a multi car policy for the remaining ten months, than it was for a seperte (12month) single car policy. The bizarre thing was they were the cheapest single car policy?

Admiral multi car with my FF, 10 months policy - �268 please
Admiral single car, 12 month policy - �206 please

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I even passed them the quote numbers and the response was sorry sir, we don't price match against our single car policy quotes.... 

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I looked at a multi car policy and it's just not worth it for me either.

Four cars on one policy was going to cost me �600 per year more than just getting a local broker to insure them all seperately and do the hunting around. Plus the multi car policy wanted double the excess at �500 !!!

Just going through the same thing myself. Renewal Quote for 4 cars on a Equity Red Star Multicar �1315. Have been on three different multicar policies over the last 5 years and they worked for me up til now. But a couple of hours with the Meer Cats and Opera Tenor and I had them all individually down to a total of �703 across 4 different insurers. Amazing price differentials. One place offers best price on one car but then a daft price on another even as an individual car not a multicar. When I went multicar, the individual insurances had risen to over �1300 and the broker did the lot for �800. In five years the situation appears to have have reversed! Have passed the info back to the broker to see if he still wants to play, but I suspect I'll be shown the door. PITA to have to go through it every year though. Mike - MPx

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Being a curmudgeonly old Simes these days - when I get the renewal and (as always it's gone up) I do the get a million quotes from elsewhere thing, and when (as they often do) the orginal insurer offers to match it, or even get a bit nearer to it I always now tell them to shove it.

The renewal letter is always full of smarm about how this is the best price, so, either they are liars or conmen - so they get binned for a a bit. Hopefully if enough people did this they would learn the error of their ways!

As above with Simes, but i found on my last renewal with a change of address thanks to the skank, without her on my insurance dropped �50, but the renewal was still more than a new policy from admiral so i let them price match but fibbed and said i had a quote from some obscure place for �20 less. They matched that and im a happy bunny Dont be afraid to cut some off other quotes to drive down your current insurance premium  FFRR MY06 facelift With TDV8 Alloys Zeros/ATR's
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My mother got her renewal from direct line for �540 so I did the comparison checks and found a few companies including Privilege offering the premium of only �270! She called DL and they said the best they could do was �470. Oddly enough Privilege is the same company as Direct Line so it seemed a bit odd that they would not match.

In the end we decided to avoid DL (she has been with them 8 years) and also Privilege (same company so sod them) and go with one of their competitors Sheila's wheels which was the cheapest and better deal.

Never be loyal to an insurance company, their business is to scam their existing clients and hope you won't notice. Tom

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Well did the deed today, having spoken to a relative in insurance, who couldn't do any better.

Told Admiral where to shove it.

Spent about five minutes each online activating (and paying for) the best quotes and emailing off proof of NCD.

As a reminder:

Admiral renewal for 4 cars
�2475

This years premiums from Chaucer, Swiftcover, LV and Diamond
�1208

Off down the pub (walking!!) .
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Good work Joe and good way to show them they are being stupid with some prices  FFRR MY06 facelift With TDV8 Alloys Zeros/ATR's
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I had a similar renewal experience with Admiral military car - individual quotes came back cheaper - in my case they were all Admiral or Diamond (owned by Admiral) so ended up with individual policies for less than the multi-car !

stan wrote:

anyone got a 'sergai'...

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so you got a maiya, sergei and yakov..

i'm stuck with bogdan and vassily. ..need to get home insurance or credit card now to get a sergei..  ... - .- -.




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