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[944 lux]

ORIGINAL: wardtimothy

Lancaster will insure virtually any car from the early 90s and before for £210 with 5000k limited mileage, I have checked and even 5litre cars go through at this cost. They are on moneysupermarket too. They dont like mods though.

When I was looking to get a 944 earlier in the year they were doing a 'quick quote' that came in at around £200, yet when I'm trying to get quotes now that option isn't there and giving a best quote of just over £300. How do you get cover from them for £210?

 

[pixieporsche]

Lancaster are excellent I'm insured with them for a couple of cars - Porsche 944 and an MGB GT.

Nicola

 

[Fat Albert]

I'm with Aviva as mine is a daily driver and pay £280 for 8,000 miles a year, kept on the driveway, 41 years old

 

[Peter Empson]

Just renewed with Aviva thanks to this thread, much cheaper than everyone else for the 944S (£300 for 8k, including commuting).

 

[36270k]

Got a good deal from Lancaster for my 1983 924 , £123 fully comp for 3,000 miles a year , kept on driveway.

 

[Northern924]

39, no points, 1 yr NCB, £422 FC, but thats SDP& Commuting, unlimited milage and only £250 excess, it'll be my only car this year and thats still half the price they wanted when i was thinking of getting a Cougar V6!!

 

[pixie*porsche]

I'm with Lancaster They've always been good for me. BTW - 22, always had classics (apart from one car) so no NCB (always been with Lancaster bar once), the 944 costs me £500 at the moment but will drop to £200 aged 23, !

 

[Elliot]

Have been with classicline 01455 639000

£170 for 944
£267 for 993
£83 for my rover mini

all 5000 miles

£167 for Audi 80 10000 miles
£204 for mazda tribute 10000 miles

and the let me swap cars for the day (at no cost) if i buy a car and need to drive it home.

never any problems even when claiming on mini

 

[pixie*porsche]

I've tried Classic Line before - they are very good May try them again when my renewal comes through

 

[jonathan]

Footman James - unlimited - £100.00 excess - £5,500.00 agreed value - £270.00. I'm 44.

 

[pixie*porsche]

ORIGINAL: markofay

I hate reading threads like this....gets me sooo jealouse, try £1100 fully comp, no mods....(honest[])
5000 miles a year with 250 excess,
But could have been worse last year was £2000 third party fire an theft!! on a car thats valued at £1800
Im 25 but only been driving 2 years, £1100 was by far the cheapest, I shoped round everywhere first and used computerquote.com
Love my car though and its well worth it,

Go onto Lancaster and do their online quote.

 

[GPF]

ORIGINAL: markofay

I hate reading threads like this....gets me sooo jealouse, try £1100 fully comp, no mods....(honest[])
5000 miles a year with 250 excess,
But could have been worse last year was £2000 third party fire an theft!! on a car thats valued at £1800
Im 25 but only been driving 2 years, £1100 was by far the cheapest, I shoped round everywhere first and used computerquote.com
Love my car though and its well worth it,

Have you tried adding an older named driver to your policy - father say? This can reduce premiums significantly.

 

[edh]

Classic line are great. You get to talk to real people, who show some real understanding and flexibility. They have always been very pleasant to deal with.

 

[Outrun944]

Another big thumbs up for Classicline who I've just gone with! £287 - 5,000 miles - just about to turn 30 years old.You can read my woes in my own thread ... but yea I was so depressed earlier that the cheapest I could find was KwikFit at £1300+.
DO NOT GO WITH THEM UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES THO!
I saw someone mention them here ... if you can't get Footman James, Classic Line or Lancaster I see now mentioned ... then give Bond Insurance a call http://www.bondinsurance.co.uk/ - they found a special Aviva deal where it was £805 for me this morning (the first 'main' Aviva quote thro the usual channels was £1400!). Better than what you'll find on the gocompare and other guff sites of it's ilk.

 

[Lowtimer]

I have just been very pleased by the deal provided by RH Specialist Car Division.
£244.67 for my 944 Turbo 250, with Promax L2.
5000 miles, £10,000 agreed value, kept in locked garage, etc etc.

Despite the steep general increase in motoring insurance costs over the last year this is a significantly better premium than I paid last year for the car with Adrian Flux, and that was with the standard 250 bhp and for a lower agreed value.(It's had a _lot_ of money spent on improving it over the last 12 months.) No significant change in terms & conditions, excesses, and so on.

 

[Fat Albert]

My renewal came in from Aviva and it has gone up to £360, I have done a quick check around and Swiftcover was the same, but all the others were significantly more, so I will just take it on the chin, The Aviva quote includes the mods, whereas the others were for a standard car.

It is still much cheaper than my previous car, a modded SAAB 9 3 Turbo that was £480, and my Wife's 535D M Sport is £530 (Zurich wanted £2,500 when we changed from the 7!!!)

 

[OLD_ian]

Ha! I'm paying £1800 a year, moved from Canada so a new UK drivers license, though i'm over 40 and no claims in over 20 years of driving. But from the insurers point of view i'm a new driver in a Porsche. The quotes for a 993 were truly scary which is why I got the 944.

ORIGINAL: lookingfora944

This thread depresses me. You know what my cheapest quote was?

£800 per year!

38 year old man, no points, never claimed before. I have zero no claims as I have not owned a car for over 5 years. But all because I live in London and the car is parked on the road

 

[sawood12]

Before I modified my car no-one could touch Direct Line for me - protected FNCB, low excess, like for like courtesy car (got a top of the range Merc C-Class when the car was in having a new rear bumper after a minor prang because the insurance companies hire car company didn't have any Porsches - they were very apologetic), unlimited mileage, all the fully comp bells and whistles, parked on a drive and garaged. Cost me about £230 and was actually cheaper than the Focus at the time. As soon as I added mods the price escalated ridiculously though - about 10% compounded per mod. Ended up with some modern classics policy - with Aviva I think for about the same price.

 

[peanut]

ORIGINAL: gordon0310

I can only get £914 with footman james, on a 6000 limit, garaged and 4 years no claims. I was hoping for it to be my daily driver but all of the quotes were over 1k, or £989 with kwik fit. I dont have another car so can't get in with the classic policies.



STUNG

why not buy a scrap car something really cheap to insure as a first car like a polo /fiesta for £100.00 . Stick a years tax on it and dump it on the road . Then claim the 944 as a second car with RH . it would still be a lot cheaper []