insurance on an RX-8?

thefullcollapse · 26 Jul 2006 at 17:32

My dad has recently been quoted £4000 to get insured on an rx-8.
he is 54 and has years of no claims.

is there something rong here or is it just me?

Hate · 26 Jul 2006 at 17:33

What are the circumstances? for all we know he could have had drink driving convictions and whatnot.

does seem a little wrong thou

thefullcollapse · 26 Jul 2006 at 17:34

nope, no convictions baisically spottless record.
got caught speeding about 2 years ago though?

DaveyD · 26 Jul 2006 at 17:37

What does he drive now ? And how much does that cost to insure? What's the area like for crime etc?

Sounds rather high to me, I'm sure I could be insured for less than that in my area.

ci_newman · 26 Jul 2006 at 17:37

Have you tried with different insurance companies?

Ev0 · 26 Jul 2006 at 17:41

It's just an insurer who doesn't like insuring them so they give stupid quotes so they never have to

Or there's a very young named driver on the policy.

PeterNem · 26 Jul 2006 at 17:47

Probably his insurer just doesnt want that type of business.

My mum is in her late 40s and has an RX8 (admittedly only the 190 one) and pays £300 or so per year fully comp with my dad also as a named driver.

She has 9 years no claims or something silly, the maximum they'd let her enter on the webpage form, and an SP30 about 3 years ago.

This is with Norwich Union (iirc)

On the other hand CIS (co-operative insurance) who were her previous insurers and she had been with them claim free for 6 years, refused to even quote for it unless she had a tracker fitted. Having seen the Norwich Union quote, it wasnt even worth looking into the price of a tracker.

So, in conclusion, it could just be the insurers way of saying "sorry, we dont go for customers with cars like that" - get him to do a quote elsewhere.

NickXX · 26 Jul 2006 at 17:52

Sounds crazy - get a quote with another insurer, I would imagine that he could get a sub-£500 quote fairly easily.

bingham67 · 26 Jul 2006 at 17:54

Well im 19 no convictions etc and cost £4,000 to insure on RX-8 so something got to be wrong there.

ScoobyDoo69 · 26 Jul 2006 at 18:19

that is a bit high ! try different insurers because £4k at that age is taking the biscuit really..

ps.. you do seem to make a lot of random threads in here lol "turbos"

Morba · 26 Jul 2006 at 19:09

some more info on what is actually on the quote would be good.

area / other named drivers?

thefullcollapse · 26 Jul 2006 at 23:15

bingham67 said:
Well im 19 no convictions etc and cost £4,000 to insure on RX-8 so something got to be wrong there.

my sister is 22 and they wouldnt let her on it...

anyway theres no crime where we live, often leave the ipod in me car windows down..haha

i think tis a job for confused .com

bingham67 · 26 Jul 2006 at 23:22

confused.com is what i use its great although i dont think its completely accurate from what ive seen.

agw_01 · 26 Jul 2006 at 23:25

You can expect quotes of £8000 if you use confused.com

Flibster · 26 Jul 2006 at 23:27

Me - £470
No convictions, 4 years NCB

Oh..thats a 231 as well.

Simon/~Flibster

Fr0dders · 26 Jul 2006 at 23:29

yeah confused.com seem to return silly pointless results that bare no resemblance to what you get quoted if you go there yourself

moral of the story is

shop around

ajgoodfellow · 26 Jul 2006 at 23:55

Confused.com can often give an idea of which insurers will be sympathetic though

£4k for an RX-8 is too much though! My brother at 19 with a fault accident will pay less than that!

monkeyspank · 27 Jul 2006 at 00:39

try elephant, but make sure their opinion of "market value" agrees with you.

Townlea · 27 Jul 2006 at 02:09

try Norwich Union, tesco, Elephant, admiral etc ..

silversurfer · 27 Jul 2006 at 04:21

Our next doors teenager got a Rx8 for her first car