Car Insurance Quick Quote Via Your Mobile Phone

Danielle Fletcher 

Renewing car insurance can be a time consuming task. With the market saturated with a huge number of companies offering car insurance products, finding the best deal can mean lengthy searches and endless repeating of your personal information to the various brokers and insurers. 

This can be particularly frustrating if you only require a quick quote in anticipation of buying a car. Nowadays many people consider the cost of insurance before purchasing a new vehicle, as it can be significant proportion of the running costs. When out searching for a car, it might be helpful to get a quote as soon as possible in order to be able decide whether or not the car is going to be suitable. Now one company has come up with a solution to help car buyers get an instant quote. 

Swiftcover-insurance.blogspot.com, an internet insurance firm has launched a service which allows customers to get a car insurance quote via their mobile phone. In order to the use the service customers need to have a mobile phone with internet access. A link can be added to the phone provider’s website to make navigation easier, or a text message can be send which will direct the customer to the site. Once on the site a few questions need to be answered regarding the customer’s demographics and the car registration details. The site then will reply with a quote within one minute. This service means that customers can get an insurance quote at any time of day through their phones. This should make life a little easier when out car hunting, especially if deciding between two different vehicles. 

It is important to note that the quote provided via phone can only act as a guide, and further data will need to be inputted at a later date in order to get an exact quote. This is because the phone quote only relies on six pieces of data, whereas normally an insurance quote requires a lot more information. But it can act as a starting point for those who need a speedy indication of the insurance cost. 

However this service is not entirely new. Swiftcover-insurance.blogspot.com launched a text service similar to the mobile internet service back in 2006. With this service, customers were required to send a text message to the company which would then respond with a series of question. The quick quote would then be based on the answers to these questions. Swiftcover.com is moving with the modern day advances in technology and enabling customers to access quick quotes through a number of methods to suit them. Making life easier for the consumer is an important way of keeping their business. Once a customer has used the service to obtain a quick insurance quote, they might be more inclined to go back to the provider to obtain a full quote and ultimately purchase their insurance. In such a saturated market as the car insurance market is, any innovation which makes it easier for customers to choose the right product and car for them has the potential to be a hit.

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Marriage can Cut the Cost of Car Insurance

Author : Jennifer Scott 

With the average wedding now costing nearly £16,000*, tying the knot can lead to a big hole in your finances. However, getting married or entering into a civil partnership can actually save you money on your motor insurance!

According to online insurer swiftcover.com, adding your spouse to your car insurance policy can save you up to 20% compared to your singleton counterparts.

For example:

• A man adding his female spouse to his insurance policy could see his premium cut from over £388 to under £345 - if both drivers are male and in a civil partnership, the new premium would be around £348 because male drivers are considered a higher risk
• However, if a woman driver put her male spouse on her policy, the premium would fall from just over £341 to little more than £303 - the cost for two women in a civil partnership would also be around £303

Swiftcover says insurance premiums are cheaper because claims statistics show that married people are safer drivers. However, couples that aren't officially 'hitched' will also benefit from insurance savings, whether they are heterosexual or same-sex partners, although the savings won't be as high as drivers in a legally recognised partnership.

Tina Shortle, marketing director of swiftcover.com, says: "We're not suggesting that people say "I do" just to push down the cost of their car insurance, but many married couples may not realise that they can make significant savings by adding their spouses to their car insurance. It's also important to note that same sex couples in a civil partnership will also get lower insurance premiums and swiftcover.com's online quote system has been designed to enable drivers to add a spouse of either sex.

"The amount of savings will vary depending on individual circumstances such as the type of car, where you live, your job and your previous claims and motoring history. As long as your spouse is not particularly high risk you will see a saving - and although it may not help with the cost of the 'big day', over many years of wedded bliss it could amount to a substantial saving."

Shortle pointed out that insurance policies should always be in the name of the main driver - the person that drives the vehicle most often - with the spouse or partner as the named driver. Naming your spouse or partner, or indeed anyone else, as the main driver to bring the cost of premiums down further could invalidate your policy in the event of a claim if it is found that they are not actually the person that drives the vehicle most often. Likewise, incorrectly claiming that a named driver is your spouse could make your policy invalid if you need to claim.

As Swiftcover shows, adding your spouse as a named driver to your car insurance policy, whatever your gender or orientation can begin to save you money, with the following examples reducing annual premiums by an average of £38, which could add up to £380 over ten years.

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UK Motor Insurance First

For the first time in the UK, well certainly the first time I've heard this, there is a motor insurance company offering new customers the chance to cap their motor insurance premium for the next year so it's the same as they pay the first year.

Funny enough my car insurance is up for renewal in March and I've been sent an email from my current insurer. I've got 5 years no claims discount and I'm 31, I drive a 7 year old , 1.9 Diesel car and my renewal price Is £281.00, not bad I thought...

I decided to try a comparison web site and after completing my details I found a few quotes around £200, so I could in theory save around £80. The problem is can I really be bothered to go through the hassle of changing everything to a new insurer just to save myself less than £8 per month?! I suppose this is what insurers rely on; customer apathy...The thing for me is that I've got enough to do without having the hassle, and to be honest complete boredom, of changing car insurance!

With my current insurer everything renews automatically, I don't have to do anything, apart from read the emails they send me. On the other hand a friend has just said that he'd never deal with them again because they were awful when his car was written off...I guess we all just hoping that we never have to deal with that situation.

I think I'll get a few different quotes from other comparison sites, maybe a few insurance specialist sites. If I can't save a decent amount then I'll just leave my policy with Swiftcover, after all insurance can only get so cheap they're not going to give it away!

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