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Brendan Burgess
Administrator of Askaboutmoney
I’m a 25 yr old male in Dublin with full license and named driving experience since Dec 2004. No other driving experience.
I’m looking to get fully comprehensive insurance in my own name for my 1999 Opel Astra G 1.4Litre 16V. I also want to have my girlfriend on the cover as a named driver: she’s 25, provisional license and no driving experience.
Have done a lot of shopping round and only really FBD, Quinn Direct, and AXA were in the running.
FBD: €2042 fully comp with girlfriend on cover, €1471 without
AXA: €1990 fully comp with or without girlfriend
Quinn Direct: €1570 fully comp with girlfriend.
Others came in at around the €1950 mark but wanted me to do the Ignition course to get that price – yeh good luck with that lads, hardly gonna take a day off work when you’re more expensive than the opposition anyway am I?
At €1570 that’s a good quote from Quinn Direct as some companies were looking for 2.5k – 3k and I had to laugh when they said ‘that price is killing us we can’t afford to compete with that’ and then I refer to their recently revealed monster profits and they still say theres nothing they can do.
Has anyone got direct personal experience of Quinn Direct
They offer the same benefits as the other quotes above and as far as I’m concerned they’re legally obliged to cover me if I have a legitimate claim. Other than that I don’t wanna talk to them till this time next year when I’m shopping around again. But I’d really appreciated any insight on this people might have – is the price hiding something?
Either way I’ll try get FBD to match the quote as they were the only company that had a big difference between having the girlfriend on it and not having her on it, but we’ll see.
Brendan Burgess
Administrator of Askaboutmoney
I’m a 25 yr old male in Dublin with full license and named driving experience since Dec 2004. No other driving experience.
I’m looking to get fully comprehensive insurance in my own name for my 1999 Opel Astra G 1.4Litre 16V. I also want to have my girlfriend on the cover as a named driver: she’s 25, provisional license and no driving experience.
Have done a lot of shopping round and only really FBD, Quinn Direct, and AXA were in the running.
FBD: €2042 fully comp with girlfriend on cover, €1471 without
AXA: €1990 fully comp with or without girlfriend
Quinn Direct: €1570 fully comp with girlfriend.
Others came in at around the €1950 mark but wanted me to do the Ignition course to get that price – yeh good luck with that lads, hardly gonna take a day off work when you’re more expensive than the opposition anyway am I?
At €1570 that’s a good quote from Quinn Direct as some companies were looking for 2.5k – 3k and I had to laugh when they said ‘that price is killing us we can’t afford to compete with that’ and then I refer to their recently revealed monster profits and they still say theres nothing they can do.
Has anyone got direct personal experience of Quinn Direct
They offer the same benefits as the other quotes above and as far as I’m concerned they’re legally obliged to cover me if I have a legitimate claim. Other than that I don’t wanna talk to them till this time next year when I’m shopping around again. But I’d really appreciated any insight on this people might have – is the price hiding something?
Either way I’ll try get FBD to match the quote as they were the only company that had a big difference between having the girlfriend on it and not having her on it, but we’ll see.