| Car
Insurance Portal
|
| At the Car Insurance Portal, we
do not propose to recommend specific car insurance companies (or, at
least, not on this page) but we will discuss the strengths and
weaknesses of price comparison services, while throwing in some links
to some of the best examples of these. The intention is that you may
choose (or not) or select one or two links to explore, perhaps taking
account of our narrative in your decision-making when you come to
select your own car insurance quote. These services should make it easy
to get an online
motor quote fast. |
Generally, people like to use
price comparison services to compare car insurance
quotes. They're popular. And they're popular for understandable and
fairly obvious reasons. First, they provide a quick way to compare
loads of car insurance quotes, given that you need fill in only one
form to generate perhaps a hundred or more car insurance quotes.
|
Secondly, there's no alternative
way to get so many quotes at once. If you own a car
and insurance
needs renewal, no-one is going to sit down and fill out literally
hundreds of quote forms to achieve what a price comparison system can
do in seconds. It's a no-brainer.
|
Thirdly, they really do drive
down prices for consumers. You really do get cheap car insurance.
Not only does the quote system generate the cheapest quotes but
insurance companies have been forced to be extremely competitive if
they are to anticipate any sales through this type of service.
|
| Fourthly, when you compare
car insurance via a price comparison site, you can store quotes for
later. They are also emailed to you. You therefore get a useful record
that you can use to research your exact choice if you need to research
specific policies further. It's a perfect price
watch service. |
On the other hand, there are
some drawbacks when you find car insurance UK
in this way. It can be hard to find out exactly what the policies
provide. What type of cover are you opting for? And more importantly,
what have they left out? A visit to the insurance company's own website
or even a phonecall, if required, could save a later accident-related
unforeseen costly expense.
|
Ther is also an issue about
impartiality. Are you really getting the most cheap car insurance if the price
comparison site is owned by insurance companies that may favour their
own products? With regard to this issue, there is no problem with any
of the links here as they are all to independent price comparison
systems that are not commercially linked with any specific insurer.
|
It can be seen from the above
that there are no major impedements to using price comparison services
to compare
car insurance quotes. You just have to check what you are getting.
There was a problem, more historic than current, that the prices quoted
by the comparison site were different to those quoted by the insurance
company itself. However, this problem is now much less of an issue
nowadays.
|
In essence then, when you want cheap car insurance,
a price comparison service is the best choice. They are also sometimes
referred to as aggregator services. The aggregator is simply the
quote-generating system itself. Essentially both can be used
interchangeably and it is common to see both terms.
|
Even if you have a specific
requirement - like a need for new
car insurance, for example - there is no problem using an
aggregator as it will still find you the best possible quote for your
circumstances. The same applies for any other special groups such as
over 65s, under 25s, women only insurance and so on.
|
Despite the statement at the top
that we want to avoid specific insurance company recommendations here,
we have decided to include Asda car insurance
as it is an ever-popular supermarket insurer that has been gaining
momentum recently and represents a good alternative to price comparison
systems if you are keen to avoid them.
|
To look at some other possible
sites to consider, you could look at the insurence
comparisons site. Interestingly, albeit not very, it is
deliberately mis-spelled as so many people search for insurance
spelling it this way that we thought it was time to set up a service to
take account of that. Its recommendations are still sound and spelled
correctly!
|
A brief footnote to draw your
attention to two other key services that we recommend. These are the
aggregators to compare bike
insurance and to compare
van
insurance. The principles presented in the discussion above apply
equally to these services, as you'd expect. It is helpful to be aware
that it is not just car insurance that can be selected in this way.
More and more other types of insurance are 'coming on board'.
|
|
|
sitemap | help
|