Trying to reduce my Car Ins - Ecar or sheilas wheels?

[Flibble]

Everyone on here appears to be best bet to answer my query. Want to reduce my car insurance and the best online quotes have come up with ecar and Sheilas Wheels.
Sheilas has a £400 excess and ecar has £250 does anyone have good or bad info on either company particularly if u have had to claim?

My big thing is I dont like non UK based call centres.

 

[ladyt25]

Have you tried Diamond? They always work out the cheapest for me - them and Elephant and also More Than. Diamond (i assume) are in wales - well i generally always end up speaking to an nice welsh person and quite often you get the same person so am thinking is quite a small company. Have always found them v helpful even when I grumble about my premium each year (they generally reduce it then!) I do have a silly expensive to insure car though and have had a claim.

 

[scotsmare]

I have my car insured with Elephant - they're in the UK and very easy to deal with. You can get a quote from their website and can pay monthly too.

 

[zip]

Hi, I founf that the first year using Diamond was cheap and then they almost doubled their quote the following year (they said due to interest rates ) rubbish !!

Anyway I tried money supermarket and I found a much cheaper company with uk call centre.

Good luck
Nina x

 

[Flibble]

Morethan are my current company and their call centre is based in somewhere like bangalore and I neraly had a nervous breakdown dealing with them 3 years ago.

 

[hellybelly6]

Elephant are consistently the best quote for my car.

 

[gnubee]

Of the two, and all other things being equal, I would go for Ecar as it has a lower excess, and also because I always feel Shelias Wheels are charging extra for things I dont need, like the £400 handbag insurance.

Direct line and a couple of others dont let themselves be included in comparison sites tho, so if any of the big names didnt come up on the site you used it might be worth checking out their websites individually.

 

[Flibble]

oops too late went for Sheilas wheels mostly because they were cheapest quote and they promise to look after laydies I know its silly but I had such a bad experiebce with a claim 3 years ago with my current company and I have not heard of ecar before.

 

[gina2201]

Tesco - brilliant in the event of a claim and you can choose the excess you want! Also very good value!

 

[ISHmad]

I'm with Sheila's Wheels and found them really competitive pricewise with far superior cover to a lot of other providers.

 

[merlinsquest]

A friend of mine is having a nightmare with Sheilas Wheels..... try going on go compare.com

I got a really good quote which Churchill then matched

Great!!!

 

[spider]

My son uses Quinn and they are very cheap if you are a young driver. They are Irish though!

 

[Faithkat]

I'm with Zurich - very definitely in the UK, in fact their office complex is about 100 yards from my previous place of work. I went via confused.com. Sheila's Wheels were almost twice as expensive as Zurich (and I'm aged, been driving for 35 years and only had one claim . . . . )

 

[Flibble]

OK I dont understand this have you a ferarri?

I have an ISUZU Trooper Citation SWB current renewal £253 Fullycomp

Sheilas Wheels £212

 

[Faithkat]

LOL! I wish . . . . no, I have a little Suzuki Alto. Fully comp with Zurich inc breakdown cover and (then) 37 year old son (clean licence) as a named driver was £160.62 last October. Sheila's Wheels wanted something like £400!!!! I don't think so . . .