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Aviva insurance laughable

Post by mwmackenzie » Tue Jun 25, 2013 12:51 pm

Well I'm 30 something lateish lol, clean licence, full 7 years protected no claims and one accident when we had all that snow, minor bump. no visual damage to other car and I didn't claim, paid for the repair myself as it was so minor I didn't want my insurance affected. I did mention it as the 3rd party might have put in to get their bumper buffed, even if replaced max must have been £500 as it was a sheddy old vectra I nudged lol..

Car is an Audi A4 1.8T sport that i've had for over a year, renewal came in and it's gone up a little so I decided to shop around.

Renewal £440
Compare the meercat.. £287
AVIVA £1080! :shock:

Clearly do not want my business lol! :roll:

They must prey on folk who do not shop around and just buy into TV advertising??

That or they clearly do not want anyone with a previous on their books!

Looks like I'll be getting another stuffed meerkat toy this year lol :thumbsup
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Re: Aviva insurance laughable

Post by j2 lot » Tue Jun 25, 2013 12:55 pm

I noticed similar ridiculous amounts when I was getting a quote for home & contents insurance. The most expensive quote was over £600 more than the cheapest :shock:
I dont remember the companies involved but cheapest and most expensive were both household names. Clearly some companies simply dont want new business :?
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Post by bertieduff » Tue Jun 25, 2013 12:56 pm

You didn't expect logic, surely? :lol:

For balance, I went with an Aviva mulit-car policy recently, as it was the cheapest deal I could find.
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Post by BiggestNizzy » Tue Jun 25, 2013 12:58 pm

They did both my BMW and elise for £480
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Post by Doc883 » Tue Jun 25, 2013 1:20 pm

bertieduff wrote:You didn't expect logic, surely? :lol:
For balance, I went with an Aviva mulit-car policy recently, as it was the cheapest deal I could find.
Another :thumbsup for Aviva from me after a hideous renewal quote from Admiral Multi-Car. I have the A4 (business use), S3 and S-Max with Aviva for £615 a year with Guaranteed NCD and that's with a fault accident in 2009 plus a few windscreen claims :D
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Post by woody » Tue Jun 25, 2013 1:25 pm

BiggestNizzy wrote:They did both my BMW and elise for £480

:shock: Thats cheap! Just paid £400 for the elise alone.

Though, is yours parked up insurance? :wink:

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Post by BiggestNizzy » Tue Jun 25, 2013 3:36 pm

woody wrote:
BiggestNizzy wrote:They did both my BMW and elise for £480

:shock: Thats cheap! Just paid £400 for the elise alone.

Though, is yours parked up insurance? :wink:
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Post by mwmackenzie » Tue Jun 25, 2013 4:11 pm

Looks like their multicar might be worthwhile but not a single policy?? fekers have had their chance with me, I'll not be looking for them to quote me sad again :evil: looking forward to a new meerkat though ;)
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Post by vet111s » Tue Jun 25, 2013 4:48 pm

My experience was similar to mark's. apparently weren't taking my no fault claim into account but were £250 more than admiral for landy and BMW for equivalent cover.

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Post by renmure » Tue Jun 25, 2013 6:06 pm

Aviva have been good to me with the F360 Spider. Premium has been £300ish for the past 2 years which was about £200 less than most quotes. By coincidence the renewal came in this week at £325 which I was going to just auto-renew but I got a quote online with Admiral for £220. :shock:

Previously Admiral were in the silly money "we-don't-really-want-the-business" price and I was so surprised that I had to phone them to check that everything was above board. No doubt next years renewal will be double or triple that, but it will do for now.
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Post by David » Tue Jun 25, 2013 6:50 pm

Of the 4 cars I insure, I used to use Adrian Flux but then got a silly renewal for one of the cars. The renewal letter invited me to phone them if I got a more competitive quote, I did phoned them and said if they were unable to give me their most competitive quote up front they would loose my business, I then declined their renewal and moved to the NFU. Funnily enough when the next car came to be renewed it was a good quote. I guess the sales software is programmed to find the suckers - don't give in!
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Re: Aviva insurance laughable

Post by j2 lot » Tue Jun 25, 2013 8:06 pm

I won't take out insurance with Aviva while they persist with sh*t adverts with Paul Whitehouse in them - utter utter crap
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Post by Dominic » Tue Jun 25, 2013 8:12 pm

j2 lot wrote:I won't take out insurance with Aviva while they persist with sh*t adverts with Paul Whitehouse in them - utter utter crap
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