Insurance Time...

The search for car insurance has begun

Not yet had my renewal price of elephant yet but thought it would be a good idea to start shopping around for a good price.

Luckily the policy runs out after my birthday so I'll be 24 at the time of renewal which should make it a bit cheaper. My NCD is now up to a whopping 2 years and all my points have expired (I had an SP30 and an SP50 a few years ago).

Heres a list of the companies I've tried and their prices, I've set an additional voluntary excess of around £250 where possible...

The AA £1325
Admiral £1062.6
Budget £1422.71
its4me.co.uk £1554.67
Hastings Direct £1484.95
eCarinsurance £841.05

The following have decided that I'm too much of a risk and wont quote me...bastards.

ASDA
RAC
Churchill
MoreThan
Norwich Union
Virgin
Direct Line


Im really impressed with eCarinsurance, I havent really heard about them before but their price is good.

I will also contact some of the more specialist insurers later this week to see if they're any good.

The search continues...

Shower Cap

Just bagged myself a second hand offical Lotus shower cap...£35. Bargain! Should be in the post to me tomorrow.

That should save farting around with the roof so much!

Lotus Of the Month!

I only just noticed...



I am Lotus of the month! Thanks to Beefy and the chaps at MLOC

Site update

As you will have probably noticed, I have tidied up the site a bit in the last few days. The blogging software used for the 'Lotus' section has been updated, if anyone's interested I'm using Serendipity to run this section of the site - top software

Anyway, car news...

Rolling Road
Didn't make it but I'm looking at doing one in the not too distant future just to see how much power the dodgy old K-series is chugging out.

AA
Still going back and for between various departments and have now been told that their final decision is 'no - sod off' basically. They have sent me information on the financial ombudsman so I'm just gathering all the bits to make a complaint to them. Fingers crossed they will make the AA see sense!

Seats
New seats are pretty good but the drivers seat seems a bit 'wobbly' at times. I think a screw or something has come loose. I'll have a look when I get chance, its nothing major. The old ones are now near-enough sold pending payment so that's good news.

Downpipe
Still blowing and I'm still trying to source a second-hand replacement.

Bit of bad news...insurance is due before long (end of October) so it's time to start looking around for a good deal. I'm edging towards more specialist insurers this year, some include trackday cover for free - all depends on how much they quote me. More news on that a bit closer to the date - most companies wont quote more than 30 days before taking out the policy.