insurance - anyone ever heard of...

[directhex]

quinn direct?

looking for quotes as a new driver on a 1.1 2001 seicento sporting - and, well, ££££££££ £££££ £££££££££££££££££££ ££ £ £££££.

average is £1100 to £1300 for TPFT

second cheapest is tesco, at £850

quinn direct quote, £550

so... are they a bargain, or dodgy irish geezers?

[nev_payne]

Tesco would probably be the safest to go with there - for bang/buck service. Their breakdown cover with green flag is very good aswell. I was quoted £1066 for full liscence under 1 month on my 998cc mini - the AA quoted me £1500 ..so as you can imagine I was more willing to go for the primary choice

[steve threlfall]

Quinn direct are ace They insure young drivers with no/little eperience for reasonable prices. They give you discount for named driver experience which knocks the price down. When i used confused they beat everyone else by about £400-2000

[Rave]

Have you put your details into www.insuresupermarket.com and www.confused.com hexeh?

[directhex]

Have you put your details into www.insuresupermarket.com and www.confused.com hexeh?

not the first, but i found out about quinn via the latter

[directhex]

HTTP/1.1 500 Server Error from insuresupermarket.

[TiG]

Same here, just breaks....

TiG

[Dark Horse]

I'm with quinn at the moment, nothing bad (or good) to report. Have only been insured about 6 weeks so not much to go on i'm afraid. They want all administration type things done in Ireland so thats a bit of a hassle to send stuff over there but otherwise its pretty straightforward.

[jon bda]

Just fiddled about with confused.com and got a quote of £247 TPFT from quinn for that R19 16v i was looking at. Thats pretty cheap...

[Butuz]

Few of the guys from the skyline owners club were talking about that last week.

I'm insured with Quinns also and have had friends who worked for them in the past - they will keep the rates low as they have a policy of not involving the legal people in a claim so they pay out quick if no legal or PI is involved. The down side is that you may be offerred less than your car is worth (and no windscreen cover) but the upside is you get the money quick and a low premium each year. For the record I believe Quinns made the most profit of any insurer in the UK last year - I believe it was £43 million compared to the average insurer of about £6 million due to keeping the greedy lawyers out of the mix.

The general concencus was - go for it.

Butuz