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  • spink
    S2Forum Freak
    • Jul 2003
    • 4382
    • Country: England

    #1

    Insurance bull*&^%

    Just cancelled my car insurance today,been with the company about 6 months.Rang them up expecting to just tell tham i was ending it and i would send them the certificate back,which i have done before with other companys.They then tell me i owe then a 90 quid cancellation fee!!.Never had that before and i am well p!ssed off.
    Anyone else ever come across this?
  • Fat Audi 80
    Super Moderator
    • Jan 2004
    • 10547
    • Country: England

    #2
    Were you paying by installments?

    If you have already paid your full premium tell them to shove it!

    cheers,

    Steve.
    The Perfectionist
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    • Rusty
      Super Moderator
      • Jun 2004
      • 18953
      • Country: United Kingdom

      #3
      If they don't back down then ask them to justify the cost. Banks have had to refund £1000s to people in unfair charges so maybe Insurance companies should get the same treatment.
      Cheers'en, AndyC
      1994 ABY Coupe - Projekt Alpinweiss

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      • spink
        S2Forum Freak
        • Jul 2003
        • 4382
        • Country: England

        #4
        No,i was paying in instalments as i knew i would be cancelling it about now.

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        • Fat Audi 80
          Super Moderator
          • Jan 2004
          • 10547
          • Country: England

          #5
          In that case I think you will be liable for some payment even if it isn't the whole outstanding policy amount....

          Cheers,

          Steve
          The Perfectionist
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          Audi Class Concours winner Stoner Park 2014, ADI Concours D'Elegance Class Winner 2008, Runner up 2014. Winner, S2Forum Show'n'Shine Billing 2006 & 2008.

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          • dan_b
            S2Forum Possessed
            • Sep 2003
            • 3670
            • Home: United Kingdom Current: England

            #6
            I think they've got you there. A friend of mine had a car accident recently and she was paying by installments. They subtracted the remaining premium due for the rest of the year from her write-off settlement. I told her to fight that but she got nowhere.
            Ex S2 owner, now running around in an A4 Avant quattro...

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            • spink
              S2Forum Freak
              • Jul 2003
              • 4382
              • Country: England

              #7
              Originally posted by dan_b
              I think they've got you there. A friend of mine had a car accident recently and she was paying by installments. They subtracted the remaining premium due for the rest of the year from her write-off settlement. I told her to fight that but she got nowhere.

              Yeah i've heard of that before but not the crap they are telling me.Its well out of order.

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              • ottawa coupe
                S2Forum Maniac
                • Nov 2004
                • 858
                • Country: Canada

                #8
                interesting to hear that insurance is a scam the world over

                i learned a week ago that if i were to turbo my corrado vr6, the company i have been with for the 13 years that i have been driving would drop my policy. not only have i been with them for 13 years, i have 2 cars and my house with them! yet any mullet sporting chain smoking grade 5 educated redneck with a hunk of 600hp (my rado is only gonna be stage one, 250hp) deeeetroit iron can get insurance any day of the week as they are more "mature" than i and would not go street racing.

                i find that kinda strange as the odd time i hang out with a few friends in the summer, it's always the mullet machines that go racing and us "kids" that stick around, have a coffee and shoot the breeze.
                1993 UrS4...aka the rocket powered living room

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                • spink
                  S2Forum Freak
                  • Jul 2003
                  • 4382
                  • Country: England

                  #9
                  As an update, after a rather heated 'discussion' i managed to get out of paying this, not that i was planning on it anyway .

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                  • Chris M
                    S2Forum Extremist
                    • Sep 2003
                    • 1030
                    • Country: United Kingdom

                    #10
                    Hows life on the other side of the world looking mate??
                    Cheers,

                    Chris

                    Silver S2 Avant : Sold

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