Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: UK
Posts: 14369
My daughter ranger the rear passenger door on her 2018 DS quotes to fix it by a body shop were £2550 -£2700.
Her excess was £750.
As a nurse she's classified as high risk, so her insurance is already £1800. If she claimed then it would cost more over five years than her excess etc. With this in mind I thought I'd try and find a door and just change that, nothing else was damaged.
I found a door in the same colour in Leeds. It was cheaper for me to drive to Leeds, stay in a hotel and get a body shop to change the interior door trim and refit and polish the door than her excess. £690 all in.
The bodyshops do seem to think they can print money with some of these repairs.New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!)
Sold Volvo XC90 R-Design (known as Basil)
Sold - D4 HSE (Known as Gerty)
No longer the Old Buses original owner
231,000 miles and counting
05 S manual owned from March 2005
D4 Face lifted
Still original injectors and turbo
V8 Front brakes
BAS Remap, Allisport Intercooler and deCat
EGRs blanked
T-Max split charge
Hanibal Expeedition rack
Prospeed ladder
Duratrac tyres
IID BT
BAS FBH control
3rd Sep 2023 9:13 am
Brian Considine
Member Since: 05 Dec 2022
Location: Nr Margate
Posts: 280
sarumlight wrote:
Time for a rant on this: my D3 needs a new rear door and wheel arch trim after someone changed lanes without looking recently. It’s a good few years since I had any bodywork done, and I can see why insurance costs are so high. Instead of looking at the car to see what’s needed, the (large) bodyshop want to take it in, then presumably work out what they need and order the parts. They can’t tell me how long it’ll take and said “just tell her insurer you need a hire car, it’ll be easier”. Easier for them, but a huge and unnecessary cost for the insurance company, especially if I demand the large car that I could. I can only assume that if every repair now is handled like that, it’s no wonder our premiums are going up.
Very similar experience to me a few years back. I rear ended a car due to diesel on a wet road in my VW T5 Van. It was still drivable & visually required bumber, grille & bonnet.
Took it to the insurance co's "preferred" bodyshop - they wanted to take it in, dismantle & & then quote for the repairs. They did not get the job, I managed to get the parts off eBay (as a bonus the bonnet & bumber were the correct colour) and half a day in a general garage & job done.
Agreed, thats where the repair money goes.
3rd Sep 2023 12:14 pm
DarkWheel
Member Since: 21 Dec 2021
Location: Manchester
Posts: 17
terryall wrote:
Last year £575 with Axa
Renewal £1250.
Got a quote from LV for £720. Cheapest quote was through moneysaingexpert site.
Thanks @terryall - I went through MoneySavingsExpert (MoneySupermarket), and got my cheapest quote so far £1100.
I turned 50 this year, so I've asked Saga for a quote. Unfortunately, they seem to have had an issue with their software as it came out at £78,000 (Yes 78K), they're going to get someone to get back to me
4th Sep 2023 2:01 pm
DarkWheel
Member Since: 21 Dec 2021
Location: Manchester
Posts: 17
Ok - quick update.
Saga didn't call me back as promised so I called them. It transpiers that £78,000 is the correct quote, it's their defacto reply when they don't want to insure you.
Saga
Axa - well they can't beat £1500
Axa
The AA - £1700
The AA
So the cheapest I can find is MOJA via confused.com (Without any extras like legal cover or windscreen cover) £1029, If I add windscreen cover (Which I probably will do), It's still the cheapest at £1050.
6th Sep 2023 7:10 am
gstuart
Member Since: 21 Oct 2016
Location: kent
Posts: 14111
Also just got my renewal , wow, just wow, from A plan which doubled since last year now just under £1100 , did call them but alas was considered to be under the entire Land Rover tree , ie keyless entry
Went on confused and compare the market and got a basic quote from Hastings for £380, with breakdown cover, key, protected ncb etc it came to £520 which indeed is a good saving
That’s with a full clean licence since 1986 and 12 x years ncb
Also found confused.com cheaper than compare with the same insurance provider
Best of all mine passed its mot today , plus all new discs, calipers and pads etc , only advisory is about the rear lower arms , which I’ll get done very soon along with the rear tie bars
Knew premiums were going up but wow not doubling
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13th Oct 2023 8:29 am
Moo D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: UK
Posts: 14369
Mine is up shortly. Can't wait to get the silly increase. New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!)
Sold Volvo XC90 R-Design (known as Basil)
Sold - D4 HSE (Known as Gerty)
No longer the Old Buses original owner
231,000 miles and counting
05 S manual owned from March 2005
D4 Face lifted
Still original injectors and turbo
V8 Front brakes
BAS Remap, Allisport Intercooler and deCat
EGRs blanked
T-Max split charge
Hanibal Expeedition rack
Prospeed ladder
Duratrac tyres
IID BT
BAS FBH control
13th Oct 2023 8:37 am
gstuart
Member Since: 21 Oct 2016
Location: kent
Posts: 14111
Does seem it’s gone up dramatically this year
My heart goes out to the new D4 - FFRR owners as out of curiosity I checked and was getting quotes for around £2.800
FiL was with >MoreThan, who stopped doing car insurance. They gave all his details to swinton Insurance who found "best deal" was £3500 ish.
Last year he paid £650 !
GoCompare found AXA deal at £1115.
His neighbour's son had also been with >MoreThan and Swinton found best deal was £6200 ... up from £650.
He found a deal for £800.
Sadly I suspect some people will fall for Swinton's blurb and get massively ripped off..
Dean
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2011 D4 XS - OBD port protection, RLD spare wheel protector, All LED interiors lights, Timed Climate enabled, iiD tool paired.
2011 D4 Landmark - Stolen from same dealer before I paid for it
2011 D4 GS - Stolen whilst at dealer ... All LED interiors lights, DRLs, Spare Wheel protector.
1996 300Tdi - Eaten by tin worms
13th Oct 2023 9:20 am
gstuart
Member Since: 21 Oct 2016
Location: kent
Posts: 14111
Blimey that’s a serious saving by just shopping around , don’t know what’s happened this year that’s effected so many premiums drastically increasing , seems it’s the keyless entry
Indeed feel so sorry for new young drivers with the daft quotes they get
Also wonder how many customers A plan lost this year after restructuring there company
Plus wonder if it will force second hand prices to fall with the later land rovers, ie, FFRR, RRS D4’s etc
13th Oct 2023 9:33 am
gstuart
Member Since: 21 Oct 2016
Location: kent
Posts: 14111
Admiral attributed the recent car insurance rise to several factors, including:
Severe weather changes – Extreme changes between hot and cold can have a detrimental effect on cars
Car theft increases – An increase in car theft has also driven up the cost of claims
Rising cost of car repairs – Inflation has led to an increase in labour costs
Energy crisis – Admiral claim the steep increases in the price of energy have added around £70 to the cost of some repairs
Delays to the import of parts – There has been a delay to the importation of parts, meaning cars will likely be off the road for longer, and courtesy car costs will increase
13th Oct 2023 9:35 am
Gary_P
Member Since: 03 May 2016
Location: Kent
Posts: 1651
Hardware wrote:
FiL was with >MoreThan, who stopped doing car insurance. They gave all his details to swinton Insurance who found "best deal" was £3500 ish.
Last year he paid £650 !
GoCompare found AXA deal at £1115.
His neighbour's son had also been with >MoreThan and Swinton found best deal was £6200 ... up from £650.
He found a deal for £800.
Sadly I suspect some people will fall for Swinton's blurb and get massively ripped off.
According to my car insurance quote research, Swinton ‘essential’ insurance is only Defaqto 3 stars.Gary
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Discovery 4 HSE 2016MY
13th Oct 2023 10:32 am
garfield2
Member Since: 24 Jul 2008
Location: morley, leeds
Posts: 316
Insurance
Doesn’t get any better does it, looks like a few hours of comparison site trawling this weekend,
Hastings multi car policy, nothing changed from our side from last year, apart from year older and car lesser value
How your price compares to last year's
Last year's total price £1,309.35
This year's total price £3,171.27
Regards
MartinDiscovery 4.5 HSE 2015 MY
Discovery 3 SE 2007 MY gone with spinning journals
13th Oct 2023 9:03 pm
Moo D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: UK
Posts: 14369
I saved over £2k by moving from Admiral multiyear to individual policies with various companies. Oddly my Defender and at the time, 17 year old daughters D3 was cheaper with Admiral.New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!)
Sold Volvo XC90 R-Design (known as Basil)
Sold - D4 HSE (Known as Gerty)
No longer the Old Buses original owner
231,000 miles and counting
05 S manual owned from March 2005
D4 Face lifted
Still original injectors and turbo
V8 Front brakes
BAS Remap, Allisport Intercooler and deCat
EGRs blanked
T-Max split charge
Hanibal Expeedition rack
Prospeed ladder
Duratrac tyres
IID BT
BAS FBH control
13th Oct 2023 9:48 pm
Shaun R.
Member Since: 13 Sep 2016
Location: Warlingham, Surrey
Posts: 145
Just had the insurance through for my 1999 Disovery 2 up from £400 to over £600.....that's more than I paid for my D4!!
Keyless entry can't be blamed for that.
Looks like I have a weekend of searching around on t'internet ahead of me.
14th Oct 2023 12:01 am
pwheeldon
Member Since: 14 Jan 2020
Location: West Yorks
Posts: 1492
I don't know if this is common knowledge but you need to get you're policy booked about 2-4 weeks before it's due as that can make a big difference to quotes. I was told by an insurance company that 2 weeks is the sweet spot, but playing around with quotes on a comparison site I found that as long as it was over 2 weeks, it was cheaper in some cases significantly.Discovery 4 GS 2009 Auto Stornoway Grey
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