Car insurance - tell us your quotes/renewals

Maybe so. Still wondering why do they need to know the regs of other cars I've access to ? I've easy access to 5 cars including my own but does it matter ?

Part of me feels like ringing and asking 😅

Zurich who I received a quote with after my original post came in at €613 and the sales person reckons he can get more off it when I provide driving licence numbers. Only thing is I'd loose my fully comp driving of other cars.

Currently I am with AIG. I'm looking at getting a new car but I cannot get a quote for a Zafira. (Doing change of Vehicle on the policy I have)

Every other car I try, I get a quote, high years, low years, 2litres even 3litres I get a quote, as soon as I try ANY zafira, it says to call them as they cannot offer me a Quote. Anyone else have this?

Insurance companys don't normally do anyone but themselves a favour,but in this case AIG certainly are doing one for you.

Thank you for that, I will not be getting it so 😂

And it burns burns burns, the ring of fire, the ring of fire, don't park it in Douglas boy!!

I rang chill he said the website quote is not accurate but got mine down to 500 so not too bad.

How far in advance are insurance companies typically sending out renewal quotes?

Shopped around, competition wasn't great.

Zurich €627, Liberty €715, Axa €780, Asgard €902, Aviva would not quote, An Post wouldnt quote, 123 €466. Last year I was with Allianz through the AA. This year I went straight to Allianz.

Allianz, Fully Comp, Full NC and windscreen cover for €321.

got renewal quote from its4women - 465. policy is with AIG. quote direct from AIG is 355 (inc 10% discount) - exact same policy and benefits. best its4women can do is 429. g'luck......

30M, 5yr NCB, TPFT with Class 1 and partner on the policy as well (who has own car). No penalty points.

Best Quotes (rounded to the nearest €5 for anonymity) were

• Chill - Renewal - 420
• AVIVA - 420
• Kennco - 465
• Allianz - 470
• Chill - New - 475
• QuoteDevil - 490
• Hastings - 495
• AIG - 510
• BestQuote.ie - 525
• AA - 555
• GMIB - 555
• its4women - 565
• Acorn - 570
• Liberty - 570
• First Ireland - 575
• QuoteMe.ie - 575
• Glennons - 580
• FBD - 590
• AXA - 620
• Sheridan - 640
• Britton - 650
• Campion - 655
• 123.ie - 660
• GetSetGo.ie - 665
• AA - 675
• SuperValu - 680
• Cornmarket - 705
• Arachas - 720
• AIB - 780
• BOI - 830
• Whoops.ie - 890

The ones that wouldn't quote online and didn't get back to me were: Zurich, An Post, Dolmen, MIG, Insure4Less and CoverinaClick. First year the renewal has been the best quote!

40 year old male with Full Irish license held 21 years and no penalty points, accidents, claims or convictions. 15 years claims free in own name and 5 years claims free as a named driver before that.

2011 Toyota Avensis 2.0 D4D. Comprehensive cover sought.

Last year I paid Allianz €416 (oddly they said on the renewal that they were €475 last year). They were looking for €617 this year as per renewal quotation but when I got fresh quotation of them online with exact same particulars they were coming in at €460....hmmmm.

Axa were €777 and were a lot more on top of that to add extras such as NCD protection and open driving.

AIG €567

An Post Insurance €504.

Zurich which I went with were €389 for comprehensive cover, roadside breakdown assist adding in home start, windscreen cover, Personal Accident and Medical expenses, fire brigade charges, foreign travel cover, replacement of locks, new car replacement, personal belongings, stepback bonus protection and driving of other cars. Did bump the excess up to €1,000 to get that price too though.

I went with Zurich in the end and very happy with the price for the level of cover. There were a few more prices I got that I did not jot down so not noted above - they all would have fell between the Axa highest price and Zurich's price.

Was really very pleased with that price and I think my post highlights (along with many other posts in the thread) that its so worth getting the finger out and shopping around for any general insurance product and for many other services also. Insurance company's are reliant on people's laziness to just stay with them and they do take advantage of that (hey, I would too!)...I think my experience of Allianz highlights that.

Definitely worth the gamble in bumping up the excess to reduce the premium from my own point of view but I will make the caveat that not every individual or family may be in a position to do so. Don't do it if shelling out an extra €1,000 if you were in a tip would end up putting you in dire straits.

Fully comp. Male early 40's €385 including bonus protection (which is a bit of a scam in my view) from AIG my current insurer 123.ie offered renewal at €630. I'm anticipating a call from them in the next few days which may get interesting. I'm looking forward to using terms like gougers, fleece merchants, shambolic and asking them to justify the quote before telling them I've gone elsewhere. Most of the other quotes I tried came in under €450. Inertia is an awful thing to conform to.

29M, Irish license for 3 years, 3 year NCB and 3 penalty points. 2015 C Class, 2.1 CDI.

Best quote - Liberty €697

Axa - €720

Aviva - €2400

AnPost Insurance - €1542

They fit a blackbox to the car which records driving behaviour, speed and acceleration. If you are recorded by the device doing too many errors they restrict cover. There's lots of reports of flaws with these systems if you Google them, particularly in the UK.

That said for starting out this may be the best way for your daughter to get a years no claims built up. For an experienced driver their quotes might only be €200/300 cheaper in which case I'd advise against.

Spend the day shopping around for online quotes, I must confess that the lack of quality price comparison websites in the Republic make things so much more work than when I lived up in Northern Ireland. The best quote that I got today was €410.55 from Zurich that included fully comp, windscreen cover, breakdown assist and full NCB protection with an additional driver although admittedly I went with a higher excess of €750. I am a bit clueless about these things though so I am not actually sure if Full NCB protection is worth it for a 33 year old driver like myself who has had my licence since 2008 and never made a claim. One thing that has shocked me, is that as a FORSA member I expected to be able to get great discounts but when I quoted with trade union brokers the prices were all around the €500 range. This leads me to question if paying for trade union membership is actually worth it at all. I work in the public sector so I would imagine all public service staff have the exact same rights and working conditions regardless if they belong to a trade union or not.

Renewal due on 13th April. I have had the policy for 2 years and now want to take the car off the road for now as we have 3 cars. I called AXA and requested a quote for laying up the car (ie. Off the road) so would expect Fire&theft option to maintain my NCB.

AXA anwered after 2.5 minutes of telling me about all sorts of claims stuff I did not need as I had clearly pressed the "Renewal option 2". Finally speak to a human who confirms I can suspend my policy and confirms my NCB would not be affected. Great please let's do that then.

Your renewal is due on the 13th with a premium of 270 euro - so would you like to pay in full? Eh? What?? You want me to pay the full premium and not be on the road?? Are you mad? I may as well just renew the policy as normal and not drive the car!! Hang on a minute..... goes off to check. Hello sir yes if you want to suspend the policy you need to pay the full premium. OK then I will non renew the policy and request my NCB letter which will be used going forward. I can prove off the road status via the tax office "Off road declaration".

Just so you know the world is going mad.

22 Year old male

Full licence (for 1.5 years, thanks Covid-19😒) and had been insured on a provisional in my own name since 2019 (3 years).

2011 1.8 Mitsubishi Lancer

No points, 1 claim thats still outstanding (never crashed a car myself but wont be lending my keys to anyone ever again, too young for open driving).

Renewal came in from AXA up 100 euro from 1,000 to 1,100 (with claim so understandable). Checked around a few other companies all ludicrous (liberty 2,000, FBD 3,500) only other reasonable quote was AIG (boxclever mind) was 1320.

Rang AXA told them a tall tale about another company giving me a quote for 980, fair play to them they dropped it down to 890😃.

Seriously don't understand how one company can offer me triple another but maybe someone who had a claim can clarify do quotes become more reasonable when the claim is settled.

Age: 43M

Car: 08 Mercedes C Class

Years Driving: 14, full license

No of claims. never had a claim

Penalty points: 3

Policy: Fully Comp, Full NCB Protection

Last Year: €801.74

Renewal: €916.64  Allianz (most they would reduce it to was €80)

Liberty: €678.32

Bank of Ireland €665.29

AA: € 729.28

Did a quote on Chill and that showed Zurich at €552 but when I tried directly from the Zurich Site it came in at €667

Gonna go with BOI on this one

citroen c4 grand picasso 2.0 hdi 45m +42f full ncb, null pointe. comp. fbd renewal quote 725, zurich 475

chill.ie says no quotes so I cant compare

Male, 32, 6 years full license, full NCB, no points. fully comp

161 Mazda 3 Petrol

Axa renewal €430

Liberty - 510

Aviva - 380

BOI : 550

TheAA: 530

Anpost: 440

Called Axa, got renewal down to €360 in a couple of seconds

Try Zurich they were the lowest for me this year.

Jaysus, that's rough, it really is a lottery every year isn't it?

52 year old male, less than 1 year full Irish license (driving test over 30 years ago in Germany, but after coming to Ireland I exchanged my license for an Irish one last year), no driving experience in Ireland, so 0 years NCB and 0 points. 1 additional named driver (spouse), same circumstances. New electric car (2022 Nissan Leaf 62kWh). With all that, I agree this might be a bit of an edge case, but still an interesting experience when I went looking for a comprehensive insurance and checked out 14 insurance companies:

• 9 of them, i.e. AnPost, Arachas, Aviva, AXA, Bank of Ireland, FBD, KennCo, Supervalu (underwriter of AXA), and Zurich refused to provide an online quote without stating any reason. In addition, some of their websites looked like total rubbish from days long gone, so I'm kinda glad it didn't work out. How much can you trust an insurer whose website looks like complete crap, and who are even unable to provide a reason for refusing a quote...? Doesn't bode particularly well when I actually need to make a claim or something. Amateurs. :-)
• 2 of them wanted to install a spying box in my car to trace my every move (speed, acceleration, GPS data and whatnot), which was completely out of the question not because I like to speed (quite on the contrary, I'm a very cautious driver), but for privacy concerns, but at least they were able to provide an online quote: GetSetGo - 1469 EUR, 123 - 846 EUR.
• Its4Women: 1937 EUR
• Liberty initially insured me for 753 EUR, but they got the trim and value of my car wrong from the registration number provided. Their website is so **** that the trim only appeared AFTER paying for the insurance, namely in the documents! So I called them and they said that to correct that, I'd need to cancel and go through the entire process again not online but over the phone, so you can imagine what I said to those amateurs as well. :-)
• Which left me with just 1 company, Allianz, that did EVERYTHING right from beginning to end: modern, great looking, very functional and easy to use website, car trim recognized correctly from the registration number (even including the extra front LED lights!), and the best thing was that they offered the most competitive price of them all, namely 670 EUR, with a better standard package than Liberty. Needless to say I went with them, after a week of searching and scratching my head at the way Irish companies try to do "business" over here. :-D

And just to punish the other 10 amateurs, 2 spying lovers, and 1 prohibitively expensive one, I'm gonna stay with them till I die. :-D