I have looked around myself, 39 6 points 10 years NCD.

Cheapest by £200 was Norwich Union Direct - £467

Give their web site a try.

 

Went with Norwich £537 with NCP, hire car, legal expenses protection. Also tried Tescos based on Contigo quotes but came in at £680. Happy with NU, good name, good pay-out reputation, won't go bust. May be not the cheapest but I prefer to know they will back me up in a claim situation. No tracker required.

Also, cheaper than TTC.

rael

 

Anyone going for Invoice Gap?

What do you all think?

 

Contingo,

I have gone for the GAP invoicing, cost me £399.00 from Newbury, however nearer the delivery of my car I will challenge them reagrding the cost, as I have seen on other threads Mazda dealers offering customers the same thing for £339.00, I know it's not a mega difference, but why should I pay more if I don't need to.

 

What is gap invoicing or Invoice gap? Sorry, never come across that before.

rael

 

I've just rang up Direct Line and changed the insurance over and its even cheaper than I was expecting £406 annual including protected no claims.

The best bit is it automatically includes the equivelent of Mazda's £400 invoice gap, i.e. if you are the first owner of a brand new car, they will replace it with the exact same car including all the options. Pretty good eh. :D

They were also offering break down cover for £65 annually, which although I dont expect the car to go wrong, would be worth it for the road side assist in the case of a puncture. If you use the goo on the tyre its useless after, so thats going to cost £180. Saying that I haven't had a puncture in 8 years (when I had 3 in as many months).

Anyway, not too bad that, and I'll be ready to rock and roll midday Monday D:D

Cheers
---Dave

 

Druck I've been told the Mazda Breakdown Service (3 years cover?) will cover the eventuality of a puncture. I think its called Mazda Assist. This may save you using the goo!

If anyone has more info on this, please say.

AnilS.

 

Yes you get 3 years free breakdown cover with Mazda Assistance as part of the cars warentee. But after that the Direct Line cover sounds pretty reasonable.

Cheers
---Dave

 

Thought i was going to get shafted on my insurance as I have been driving on company's insurance therefore have no NCB!!

Family car is insured by me with wife as named driver, am keeping this therefore thought i may have to start from scratch.

Have been given good deal though with £460 including GAP cover & £125 excess!!

 

An interesting point from some of my married colleges is that you can usually get cheaper insurance if you put your wife down as a named driver, than if its just you! Even my boss who's just married an American got cheaper insurance on his Merc CLK and Jag X-type by putting her down, and she had never driven on the correct side of the road before!

Cheers
---Dave

 

I've just had to get the 7 day temp cover from Mazda insurance as my cover not hasn't made it through the post. They quoted me £846 for the year, compared to £406 for direct line - so I'm staying with them!

Cheers
---Dave

 

Most places I've tried won't touch me as I'm under 30 (by some 6 months!) even with my 6+ years NCS - including more-than who I'm with at the moment. I have a group15, but apparently group16 requires you to be over 30 for them to cover you...

However,
direct line £605 with protected NCD and £400 excess,
elephant £596 with protected NCD and £250 excess

 

My insurance is currently being wasted at the rate of £1.50 per day. Get it ready for the 6th said my dealer (so I went for the 1st just in case) and still no use for it as yet. Grrrr...