Insurance renewal - where should I be shopping?

JohnCleary

Hi folks,
As title says, my insurance is up for renewal. Been with Quinn for 5 years now and think it's about time I started shopping around. Apart from local brokers, can anyone recommend any direct websites where I should be shopping?

So far, I have:
Quinn www.quinn-direct.ie
Hibernian www.hibernian.ie
FBD www.fbd.ie

Anywhere else that anyone can think of? Best so far is Hibernian with €807 on a 320d, 24 male, Full NCB

(This price includes windscreen, NCB protection, breakdown etc)

Del2005

JohnCleary wrote: »

Hi folks,
As title says, my insurance is up for renewal. Been with Quinn for 5 years now and think it's about time I started shopping around. Apart from local brokers, can anyone recommend any direct websites where I should be shopping?

So far, I have:
Quinn www.quinn-direct.ie
Hibernian www.hibernian.ie
FBD www.fbd.ie

Anywhere else that anyone can think of? Best so far is Hibernian with €807 on a 320d, 24 male, Full NCB

(This price includes windscreen, NCB protection, breakdown etc)

Start at page 709 and go through to page 740 of the 01 Golden pages. It's the only way to get the cheapest policy.

djimi

Chill.ie supposedly compare something like 12 companies. Worth trying them, then ringing the company directly to see if they can better the quote (worked for me a few years ago; Eagle Star came in at €100 cheaper direct than the quote Chill gave me for them).

CoDy1

Ring your local broker, Brokers can quote from up to 25 different insurers and can usually beat the direct companies on price on the same policies as they buy policies in bulk.

h3000

I renewed my policy last month and the best quote was with 123.ie

Fresh Pots

Some people I know have moved from Quinn to Aviva recently and got a good chunk taken off their policies.

Gumbo

get out the yellow pages and ring every company and every broker.

well as much as you can, thats the only way to get the best price.

Anan1

kceire wrote: »

get out the yellow pages and ring every company and every broker.

well as much as you can, thats the only way to get the best price.

+1. And ring them, don't bother with onilne quotes.

Regarding Aviva, i've found them cheapest for me over the past few years, but mainly because they give 30% discount for an IAM license. They do, in my experience, seem more amenable than most to negotiation.

rebel.ranter

What about:

http://www.insure.ie

http://www.123.ie

Is there a reason to avoid these ones?

Also Hibernian is now Aviva (as is Landsdowne Rd)

http://www.aviva.ie

Alanstrainor

I went through firstquote, great guys to deal with, got me a really good quote with Aviva in the last few weeks. Definitely ring them, it's so much easier to compared to online systems. And i got better quotes on the phone than on the online systems.

Anan1

123 and donedeal wouldn't quote for a Forester XT at all, apparently it's too 'high performance' for them. It also surprised me how few ins cos are doing open driving these days - AXA won't, Zurich won't, and none of the cos the AA deal with will either.

jaffa20

kceire wrote: »

QUINN DIRECT 1850 77 1850
FBD 4093200
AXA 8343222
ARRANN 4782020
HIBERNIAN 8302955
ARB (JEFF)
ONE DIRECT 1890 22 22 22
BRITTON INS 749721304
OREILLY CULLEN 4033700
WRIGHT GROUP 5365600
PETER O BRIEN 8437231
AA 6179999
MIKE MURPHY 6714288
INSURE 4 SURE 1850 204 204
DOLMEN 8672121
GLENNON 1890 453 666
GOGGINS INS 8724444/8340251
INSURE .IE 1850 43 43 43
TOP QUOTE 1890 78 87 87
FIRST IRELAND 8820882
NATIONAL DIRECT 1890 48 48 40
QUICK QUOTE 4651964
BARRINGTON INS 8217577
BROPHY AND Co. 8213071
CAROLE NASH 1800 930 801
COTTOR INS 2800319
COYLE HAMILTON 6616211
GALLAGHER INS 2802785
ALLIANZ DIRECT 1850 48 48 48
EAGLE STAR 1850 44 79 99
123.ie 1850 222 123
X-S Direct Holdings 6610999 / 6288666
bestquote 818223223
25plus 1890 927 334

Quoting from this thread

There really should be a sticky about this imo.