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Tue Apr 23, 2013 7:42 pm

best classic car insurance companys for the e30 please,hoping to be on the road next week
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Tue Apr 23, 2013 8:09 pm

We can list some classic car insurance companies, but which is best for you is an unanswerable question. Insurance companies use all sorts of weird and wonderful algorithms to calculate premiums, and everyone is different.
I can get quotes for myself from less than £100 to £1000s. The companies that quote £1000's to me stay in business, so they must be quoting sensible premiums to others, and possibly those others are getting ridiculously high quotes from the companies that quote below £100 to me.
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Tue Apr 23, 2013 8:15 pm

any classic insurance should be less than 120 IMO, but as above all depends on so much info.

try https://secure.lancaster-ins.co.uk/cgi- ... tAodGQ8ASw and go from there.
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Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:00 pm

looks like ringing around then,i read on here a while ago that footman james was giving good quotes i will give them a try first i think, i tried lancaster and they quoted 440.00 which i thought was a bit dear being 30 in a few days with clean licence,it was an online quote tho which seem to come back more expensive in past experience ,il have a good ring round tommorow and see if i can get it down a bit
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Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:10 pm

moggie wrote:best classic car insurance companys for the e30 please,hoping to be on the road next week
I've been impressed with the service (& price) of Peter Best classic car insurance....I don't believe they appear on any search engines.
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Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:15 pm

thanks alex i found a number for peter best il give them a try
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Tue Apr 23, 2013 9:23 pm

i use Lancaster, 5000 limited policy on my cabby in a sensible postcode, garaged, with Cat 1 and im 37 with 10 years + NCB- £147.50. :D
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Tue Apr 23, 2013 11:45 pm

Put your girlfriend and even mum on the insurance.. Usually helps..

But not sure if this applies to classic insurance..
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Tue Apr 23, 2013 11:50 pm

I really rate footman james, try them first. Im 26 and paying 230 a year fully comp
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Tue Apr 23, 2013 11:51 pm

matt86 wrote:I really rate footman james, try them first. Im 26 and paying 230 a year fully comp
Thats with full european breakdown cover included free too :D
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Tue Apr 23, 2013 11:52 pm

I just took out a normal policy with co-op , was £203

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Not bad i thought
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Wed Apr 24, 2013 12:11 am

matt86 wrote:
matt86 wrote:I really rate footman james, try them first. Im 26 and paying 230 a year fully comp
Thats with full european breakdown cover included free too :D
Is that all MODs declared Matt :?
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Wed Apr 24, 2013 8:29 am

Rav335uk wrote:
matt86 wrote:
matt86 wrote:I really rate footman james, try them first. Im 26 and paying 230 a year fully comp
Thats with full european breakdown cover included free too :D
Is that all MODs declared Matt :?
i still need to tell them about,engine swap, i was going to,do it this week when i add the 2 door to the policy. It think its 280 actually, but I've been with them a year already and on a limited mileage with them.
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matt86 wrote: i still need to tell them about,engine swap, i was going to,do it this week when i add the 2 door to the policy. It think its 280 actually, but I've been with them a year already and on a limited mileage with them.
Any problems with declaring the swap, please feel free to get in touch with us:

http://www.skyinsurance.co.uk/engine-sw ... rance.html
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Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:04 pm

got quoted 244.00 with footman james,fully comp with breakdown cover so going with them ,cant be bothered ringing round hundreds of companys
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Wed Apr 24, 2013 6:04 pm

skyinsurance wrote:
matt86 wrote: i still need to tell them about,engine swap, i was going to,do it this week when i add the 2 door to the policy. It think its 280 actually, but I've been with them a year already and on a limited mileage with them.
Any problems with declaring the swap, please feel free to get in touch with us:

http://www.skyinsurance.co.uk/engine-sw ... rance.html
will do thanks mate.

its 175 to add my 2 door for the year with a maximum mileage of 6000 on both cars, so 455 for both cars for the year.
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