Type R Insurance Mandatory Excess

[jont122]

Hello

Have been looking at current insurance costs. Have noticed that most havea Manditory Excess of around £400 for the type R? (not taking into account of any volantary excess) Privilege etc

Has anybody else found this? Or are there any other reasonably priced insurance with a lower excess around?

[illegalhunter]

Iam £250 manditory £250 volantary & it costs £388 a year for me & her indoors 8 y NCB

[jont122]

Originally Posted by illegalhunter

Iam £250 manditory £250 volantary & it costs £388 a year for me & her indoors 8 y NCB

Who is that with?

Regards

[dave525]

The excess will also be dependant of your age

[illegalhunter]

Churchill OH YES

[Big&]

Mines about the same as illegalhunter but with directline line.

[charlas]

Directline - 250 Mandatory, 75 Voluntary, 325/year... did'nt realise how cheap the Type-R was to insure.

Just lucky I have lots of NCB and live in a low risk area...

[Ed Case]

May I suggest phoning A-Plan insurance, used them for 20 years. They will beat any quote, often by a good margin. Adrian Flux was the next best.

UK Car and Home Insurance Quotes From A-Plan Insurance.

[angie4m]

the mandatory excess is not car specific but provider specific. I'm £300 mandatory and £0 voluntary with Admiral.

[Dimplyred]

Originally Posted by angie4m

the mandatory excess is not car specific but provider specific. I'm £300 mandatory and £0 voluntary with Admiral.

It's not it's car specific. My last car had no mandatory excess, when I swapped it to the CTR there was £200 mandatory excess.

[garytheobald]

my car doesnt arrived until march 1st but ive been on confused already im managing £401 with £300 compulsary excess £0 voluntary 6 years ncd protected thats with esure oh and thats garaged overnight and in a {secure} hospital carpark of a day

[Dimplyred]

Originally Posted by garytheobald

my car doesnt arrived until march 1st but ive been on confused already im managing £401 with £300 compulsary excess £0 voluntary 6 years ncd protected thats with esure oh and thats garaged overnight and in a {secure} hospital carpark of a day

Mines up on March 1st and my quote with Esure is £313 with £300 compulsory excess. Quite cheap me thinks.

[angie4m]

Originally Posted by Dimplyred

It's not it's car specific. My last car had no mandatory excess, when I swapped it to the CTR there was £200 mandatory excess.

Well my dad was under the same impression with the m3 because he had also opted for £0 excess. There was no mention when taking the policy out but when the woman hit the car and I picked it up there was a £250 mandatory excess which was in the small print of the policy provision, which you are meant to read. But not many people do as there is loads of them. I had to pay it to get the car back and then got a refund from the insurance company (esure)

I've never heard of any insurance company having £0 mandatory excess. Probably wrong, but they don't have to tell you when you take the policy out, they expect you to read the terms and conditions which you have agreed too. If I wasn't under 25 admiral have a £250 excess for every other driver. Same with direct line, esure, more than etc

[Dimplyred]

Originally Posted by angie4m

Well my dad was under the same impression with the m3 because he had also opted for £0 excess. There was no mention when taking the policy out but when the woman hit the car and I picked it up there was a £250 mandatory excess which was in the small print of the policy provision, which you are meant to read. But not many people do as there is loads of them. I had to pay it to get the car back and then got a refund from the insurance company (esure)

I've never heard of any insurance company having £0 mandatory excess. Probably wrong, but they don't have to tell you when you take the policy out, they expect you to read the terms and conditions which you have agreed too. If I wasn't under 25 admiral have a £250 excess for every other driver. Same with direct line, esure, more than etc

I had no mandatory excess with my last car. Then I paid the additional premium when I bought my CTR, mid term, with the same policy and there was a mandatory excess that applied beacause of the car.

Everyone should read all the small print of their insurance documents not just for hidden excesses but details that may be wrong, before it is too late.

They do have to tell you of all excesses that apply, it is written in the small print and they expect you to read it.

[NighthawkES]

Just a personal opinion of course... But I have had a bad experience with Budget Insurance. Yes there cheap but I'm sure you get the service you pay for. It wouldn't be so bad if I was trying to make a claim. But I'm not. You wouldn't believe what a mess they have made of cancelling one policy and starting up a new one. Sounds easy enough to me. But no... despite the fact that no one ever answers the phones at their service call centre from one hour to the next. When you do get through you fight a losing battle trying to be understood as they are very poor at understanding English (all foreign call centres). Then of course they assure you that it will all be sorted out and when it becomes apparent that it hasn't been sorted out, the whole cycle starts all over again. I'm still waiting for a refund from them which I was assured would be paid back into my account before the money for the new policy would be taken out. Guess what... my account is now well out of pocket due to their incompetence.
All insurance companies seem great when you get a cheap quote off them and as long as you never need to claim or sort any problems out, I suppose you'll never know a good company from a bad one. Well (in my opinion) Budget are a bad one... YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!