Admiral Multi Car not so cheap anymore

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Admiral Multi Car not so cheap anymore

Post by gdr » Wed Feb 09, 2011 3:55 pm

Thought Admiral MC were great when Ifound them a couple of years ago - last years premium for the fleet (Panda 100hp, RR Sport, BMW 330i and 2-Eleven) was under £1000. This years renewal £1340.
So got on compare the muskrat and got quoted Iggy Pop Swiftcover insurance for the non Lotus cars, very reasonable (esp £242 for RRS) and then called CCI who quoted £302 for the Lotus including the usual :6 TDs.
Saving £465 and for the first time ever, I will be insured for TDs (well 6 anyway). :thumbsup
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Re: Admiral Multi Car not so cheap anymore

Post by Dominic » Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:01 pm

We have Multicar for our two everyday cars. Tried them for the elise, but were working our more then CCI, so CCI got the business. As you also mention, that comes with the added bonus of cover for 6 trackdays - and CCI don't get tied in knots with a few mods to the car.
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Post by SAJ » Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:22 pm

Our family uses Multi-car,

Audi A4, Seat Ibiza, Nissan Micra, Lotus Europa and Lexus IS200 - Saved just over £1000 when we switched to them, so was very happy with that.
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Re: Admiral Multi Car not so cheap anymore

Post by Shug » Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:26 pm

I think the moral of the story here is don't assume that because they quoted you awesome to get your business, they will remain the best option on renewal...
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Re: Admiral Multi Car not so cheap anymore

Post by H8OAG » Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:28 pm

Just finished trawling about for Jaaaaag insurance after my Aviva renewal came through with a £80 hike.
I applied to Aviva as a new customer and got quoted £316 ..........£64 cheaper

Usual call followed to call centre chump who refused to be drawn into any " why do you hump existing customers and throw money at new business" discussion.

(I also have three cars covered by Aviva and they refuse to cover them on one policy)

Compare the Meerkat got me Direct Line for £290 which now gets my vote.
SAGA were looking for £580 before any of you jokers pipe up :D
Direct Line will no doubt employ the same tactics and hike it up in twelve months time

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Re: Admiral Multi Car not so cheap anymore

Post by Stu160 » Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:33 pm

We have done the same, swift for 2 cars, and elephant for the VX.
Our multicar nearly doubled!!!!, saved £700 doing it seperate again.

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Re: Admiral Multi Car not so cheap anymore

Post by BiggestNizzy » Wed Feb 09, 2011 5:19 pm

when you get your multicar quote in go back onto the website and accidentally put in another email address and your neighbours house number and see what a new customer gets.

Then phone up with a new reference number and ask why it's different, they blamed a computer error and after the fixed some errors on their system it cam out a further £60 cheaper all in saved about £100
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Re: Admiral Multi Car not so cheap anymore

Post by j2 lot » Thu Feb 10, 2011 1:49 pm

I found them to be really expensive when trying to add a third car to our multi policy. Ended up taking out a separate policy with another company for the third car and paying less than half of the Admiral quote. :?
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Re: Admiral Multi Car not so cheap anymore

Post by TophaTron » Fri Feb 11, 2011 2:18 am

BiggestNizzy wrote:when you get your multicar quote in go back onto the website and accidentally put in another email address and your neighbours house number and see what a new customer gets.

Then phone up with a new reference number and ask why it's different, they blamed a computer error and after the fixed some errors on their system it cam out a further £60 cheaper all in saved about £100
+1 on this.

I was on an Admiral multicar policy and went through the new quote procedure at renewal time which came out with £800 for the Jeep, Lotus, Smart and Jaguar. When I called up I found out that the renewal price was scheduled to be £1600!

Needless to say they matched the online quote and all was well.

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Re: Admiral Multi Car not so cheap anymore

Post by vet111s » Wed Apr 06, 2011 3:25 pm

Seem to be getting a pleasant surprise from admiral renewal. £861 for the lotus, swmbo's bmw and a '83 landy. Business use on all. Cant seem to find anyone who can touch those prices together or separately!

Sometimes the renewal is a fair price apparently

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Re: Admiral Multi Car not so cheap anymore

Post by BiggestNizzy » Wed Apr 06, 2011 3:36 pm

Got mine in yesterday £600 and something for the clio/elise thought it was steep but doing the rounds everyone seems to charging the same :(
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Re: Admiral Multi Car not so cheap anymore

Post by vet111s » Wed Apr 06, 2011 3:45 pm

yep, even tried the whole fake name/same details thing on their own website and as a new customer I'd be paying even more! Though in reality I'm fairly happy with the results so far esp as 2 of the cars live on the street and class 1 business use for both.

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Re: Admiral Multi Car not so cheap anymore

Post by renmure » Wed Apr 06, 2011 5:23 pm

I insured the R300 today fully comp for £152 through a broker called Frank Pickles (Insurance Brokers) Ltd who were recommended on one of the se7en forums which I though was fairly competitive. Think they are a sort of Adrian-Flux type broker who do odd stuff very cheap and other stuff expensively.

The multicar thing never seemed to work for me. Some things were cheap, some were expensive, and the total cost always came out no less than doing it individually.
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Re: Admiral Multi Car not so cheap anymore

Post by tut » Wed Apr 06, 2011 5:37 pm

Having gone through a family policy with Mary at REIS for all nine cars, the brokers were not happy with Clare on the MGF and Ian on the Audi TT, seems that they are Group 34 and 38. The other five came out at £2.7K, so more than the individual policies.

Biggest laugh was the cheapest of the lot was me on N3 TUT.

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Re: Admiral Multi Car not so cheap anymore

Post by Lazydonkey » Sat Jun 11, 2011 4:22 pm

Got my renewal through.....one phone call after some web research and they dropped the price by 817 quid.
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