Admiral motor insurance

[Freddyfruitba...]

I know Admiral come in for a bit of flak on this forum, so here's my two penn'orth...

My son recently needed to insure his first car; among the offerings provided by the Irritating Meerkat was Admiral at £800. While he was mulling over his options, by chance I received the renewal notice for my own car insurance, which is with Bell. I noticed on the letter that "Named Drivers earn a Bell No Claims Bonus" which was valid on any EUI Group company, ie including Admiral. Now, the boy's been a named driver on my insurance for 3 years now without incident, so that looked like a real plus for him. He phoned up Admiral to add his new NCB entitlement, which they accepted without demur. He was hoping for a 20% reduction in his premium.... guess how much discount they offered him?

£2.49 !
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[Polarbear]

£2.49 Impressive.

I was with them a few year purely because multicar. Then they tried the 'bump it up' by £300 with auto renew which took it over the £1000 mark for our 3 cars.

I phoned around and got it for £680 from Direct line with no fancy extras. Admiral then offered to try and match even though their renewal quote was 'The very best offer we have for you'

I know all insurance companies are the same but it still pisses me off.

One thing I would say about Admiral they were easy to deal with when changing cars etc. mid way through the policy.
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[samkent6]

I've never really got on with admiral myself. I am insured through them now, but only because they are still the cheapest out of the lot. I have a 1.6 1993 mx5, when I brought it I paid £180 to transfer the insurance over from my 1.4 Citroen. Renewal time came and I was expecting maybe a couple hundred quid extra, after all I changed cars mid policy. Nope, double the price. Nearly Double! They wanted £1200~, for 200cc extra and a car that has a tiny accident rate compared to what I was driving before, the Citroen cost me about £700~ when I first got that, and that was with a black box!

I ended up opting for TPFAT because fully comprehensive was just too much for a car which cost less than that. Ended up managing to get it down to a much more reasonable, but still astronomical £779.95. That is with absolutely no extras like breakdown cover and personal injury. I'm 20 and at the time of renewel I had just got my 2nd year NCB. Let's see what they will quote me for my bike insurance when I pass my test.. 😏

[M.C]

Spent 2 weeks chasing them to get my bloody policy documents Hope I don't have to deal with them again. I was wondering about the named driver discount as I stuck my dad on the insurance (it brought the premium down by a bit), to just over a grand when I'm 30 next year

Quick question, if I was to crash it wouldn't affect his NCD would it (policy's in my name)?

[skatefreak]

Admiral seem to be okay for 1-2 years at most, last year was my second renewal with them and it went from £550 to > £1,000?

Almost as if they thought I wouldn't notice a 100% increase?

WTF people!? Fucked off to Aviva for < £500. Screw you Admiral Prick!
See you in a couple of years again though no doubt

[Freddyfruitba...]

[MarJay]

I was forced to take out a new policy for my 600RR track bike in order to be able to ride it on the road. This was because Auntie Carole wanted £275 to add it to my multibike (when my policy was only £230 in the first place) but MCE (Who, admittedly I do hate) wanted £115 with 0 no claims bonus. This means I'll start to accrue two no claims bonuses though which isn't bad!

I've been with Elephant car insurance (who are another name for Admiral) for years and years and they are always the cheapest for me by miles. Their customer service is pretty good too, much better than most bike insurers.
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[chris-red]

I was with Admiral who were the cheapest for my Car insurance my first year was ~£700

Second year comes around and the Renewal comes through. ~£800.

I look around and Sheila's Wheels do me a quote for ~£400

I smugly ring Admiral up and tell them to stick their £800.

The Girl says "Would you like me to see if I can beat it?"

I reply "No, 1 I don't want to waste my time 2 if you can under half your original quote I don't want to be with you because that is crooked"

She says "That's fine Do you mind telling me who you are going with?" I tell her, "She says oh we are the same same company give me the quote and I can process that for you"

I wish I had told her to stuff it.
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[Rogue_Shadow]

I buy insurance with the aim of never needing it.
So far I have not needed it, therefore cannot review any insurance company

[Moxey]

[owl]

[MarJay]

[Wonko The Sane]

[M.C]

[MarJay]

[M.C]

[iooi]

[techathy]

I seem to keep swapping between Chris Knott & Admiral as they seem to be the only two insurance companies who can actually keep a proper list of modifications (everyone else seems to lose a modification or two during the quote process).

[chris-red]

[techathy]

[M.C]

[spnorm]

I handed my company car back in December and took the car allowance instead, so the insurance quotes were all pretty expensive at £7-800 for my new Golf GT 2.0TDi without NCB. Admiral gave me a £200 discount for being a named driver on my wife's car policy, so were significantly cheaper than anyone else

[Baggyman]

[Pete.]

[Moxey]