Insurance Mileage limitations Forums

teemyob

Hello,

Having been insured through Safeguard for the last 2 years, due to a price increase we have been looking for cheaper quotes.

Highest so far £1,200
Lowest £265

However, a couple of the lower quotes do have 5,000 mile annual limits.

Trying to compare cover provided has been another problem.

Anyone else had problems with mileage restrictions?

Trev.

chapter

our insurance is due in may we had a 5000 mile limit i hit that with a month to go it cost us an extra £80
chapter

cairngorm

teemyob

Hello Cairngorm,

Breakdown in the first year, Windscreen last year (second).

Trev.

homenaway

Just renewed ours with Safeguard
It has gone up £5 but that's due to the Legal cover increasing from £20 to £25 - can never decide whether its worth adding

Also I note that the windscreen replacement excess has gone up from £60 to £100

Also there is a £15 renewal fee Confused

I tried lowering the value of our van by a couple of thousand but that didn't make any difference to the premium Sad

Still think it was reasonable including full EU breakdown cover for £337 as we do a high mileage 10200 in the last year Laughing

Steve

cairngorm

jamiealana

When we renewed our insurance this year with c.i.s. in november they put a 2000 a year mileage limit on our motorhome when we phoned them up we were told that the company was just getting into line with other companies. when we explained that it was no good to us as we were going abroad and by the time we drove to dover and back that would only leave us a couple of hundred miles to play with BUT if we gave them another £21 pounds they would change it to 20,000 miles which we did , now they said the less mileage we do the less chance there is of an accident. we have full n.c.d. protected and never claimed anything apart from a windscreen myself i think it is just a way of getting more cash out of us . have been with them 25yrs but we will be looking around next yr ALAN

Telbell

We were with CIS till last year when we had a more competitive quote from a different insurer. This must be quite a new thing for CIS to impose a limit as all the years we were with them there was none. However to start with a 2000 annual limit shows how little they seem to know about Motorhoming- though I suppose you can;'t argue with their logic of "less mileage-less chance of an accident- so less risk to them"

teemyob

Hello all,

Thanks for your replies. The lowest quote we got was £265 without breakdown cover and 4,000 mile limit. Highest was £1,900.

In the end we telephoned Safguard and after some negotiating we managed to get them down by £90 5% was for being a MHF member although they said that this was realy only for new customers.

As we travel at least 12,000 miles pa in the motorhome, a lower limit was obviously of no use.

Glas we stayed with Safegaurd as the cover is fairly comprehensive and the breakdown that we had to pay for was refunded in 3 days.

Trev.