7 April
(source: in-house)
Cheapest Car Insurance Quotes
The cheapest car insurance
quotes are to be found via a car insurance comparison site. Few would
dispute that. But some might dispute whether buying those policies
associated with the cheapest car
insurance quotes is a wise choice. Certainly, we would, and what
follows are some of our reasons.
The most obvious reason to avoid the cheapest
car insurance quotes is that they, by necessity, have to be associated
with thinner cover. They're very much in the 'no frills' camp and you
can usally expect a higher excess. Cheap only remains cheerful until
you need to claim. When you claim,
you soon realise that to keep the premium cheap, the car insurance
provider has passed significant costs back to you. If you're happy to
take your chances on not needing to claim in order to save money on the
cheapest car insurance
quotes, at the very least, you should still check over the policy
features before purchase; so that you know what you've decided to
accept in terms of those costs that you will need to meet yourself.
A related problem when you select the cheapest
car insurance quotes is the effect
of the success of car insurance comparison sites on the nature of these
policies. The more that people use these services, the more that car
insurance companies are obliged to compete for business via them. They
compete by dropping their premium which they can only do by thinning
the cover. Thus more and more of the cheapest
car insurance quotes are associated with policies that even their
providers would admit (if willing to go public on such a matter) are a
poor choice from a quality perspective.
A case can still be made to use a car insurance comparison system if
you so wish, but we do counsel against choosing the cheapest car insurance quotes for the above reasons.
In point of fact, we believe that people pay inadeqaute attention to
the policy features when they use these types of services, being overly
swayed by the opportunity to save money on their car insurance renewal
quote.
While it may not be the route to the cheapest
car insurance quotes, going direct to leading car insurers cetainly
offers some personal control over the quality issue, something that we
feel justifies much greater use of direct car insurance services than
is usual among UK drivers.
If you remain unconvinced by these arguments, go ahead and buy one of
the cheapest car insurance quotes
that you can find. But you'd better cross your fingers and hope that
you never have an accident.
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