The Cheap Car Insurance Trap
Sunday, November 28th, 2010Shopping for the best car insurance deals can prove costly.Once you’ve found the best deal by sorting through all the offers that are available on the internet you’re legal to drive and that’s all fine. But what happens if anything goes wrong? The adage you get what you pay for springs to mind, if you’re paying £3.99 per month for car insurance you might find that there is smaller print under the small print and small print is very rarely good news. You might find that your fully comp is only fully comp between the hours of 03:00 and 03:05 on a Monday morning when there’s an R in the month or some other clause that means the in surer doesn’t have to pay.
In the short term car insurance of this nature is sufficient, it allows you to use your car legally but long term it’s useless since if your vehicle is wrecked or you suffer a serious injury you will hardly receive any money for repairs or physiotherapy.
Another problem with buying the very absolute cheapest cover available could be that the insurers aren’t as solvent as you’d might think. You might find a company which is offering bargain basement prices but have you heard of them? And who are their underwriters? If they’re a small outfit offering low low prices what if you have an accident which they can’t actually cover? Bankrupt them and you’ll get nothing. Again, provided it’s temporary car insurance of this nature is sufficient but not necessarily the value for money you were hoping for.
But I’m just as bad for it as any-one. I always forget “Buy Cheap And You’ll Buy Twice” when I get caught up with the buzz of finding a bargain, I think it’s a great price and although it’s not perfect it’ll do. And then I’m a little bit disappointed when the goods fail to deliver. Every time. One day car insurance will be as transparent as a no quibble guarantee but in the meantime it’s not so if you find any bargains that are ‘too good to be true’ you know what? They are. At least read the small print.