Carlie Howden

Our breakdown cover options include cover for cars age 16+ if you are still looking - all our breakdown options include EU recovery as standard  01635 874646

On 5/27/2022 at 8:24 PM, 987RG said:

Packaged bank account??

My nationwide flex plus covers car (with AA), mobile phones and travel insurance for £13 a month.  
 

Nothing about car age in t&c’s and covers European travel, home start etc. 

The bank account package might not be for everyone, but works out well for us for what it covers.

I know the bank I was with had an age limit of 16 years so it will depend on the bank and you'll need to check the terms  

completely missed this thread at the time and only just stumbled across it so I presume you are all sorted now...

For future ref though, we do track day insurance as standalone purchase for the single event etc but we also have the ability to offer 5-track day bundles on our policies which more often than not work out cheaper than buying 2 or more single track day covers

10 minutes ago, S2sam said:

Not knocking A plan they used to do brother in law van and were very competitive , I tried when I first got boxster and they couldn't get me a competitive quote , you win some you lose some , 

Thank you for trying us though  it's always worth checking again at renewal as insurers change their criteria and schemes all the time as well as developing new policy schemes available to us  

1 minute ago, Simo_UK said:

Thanks. I'm good for a few months yet. Was just taking a look at the Porsche option

No problem here if you need me!

01635 874646

46 minutes ago, Simo_UK said:

Me neither.
 

Just ran a quote for my CGTS, 6000 miles a year.  I’m a good boy,no points and just a windscreen claim in 2018. 
 

Came in at the bargain price of £1800 😂😂😂.  Let’s just round it up to £2k shall we? 😀

 

Jokers 
 

Would you like us to take a look for you? 

As a broker we use 40+ insurers and their approved repairers, their terms etc all vary slightly as do their repairers - as I say, if you pm me your postcode (as I don't want you posting personal information publicly) I can find out who did the call, and listen to it if needed. All feedback is welcomed, as if the call wasn't satisfactory then we can highlight any areas for further training also.

We do usually say, for example with kit cars, I know some of these questions may not be fully relevant but we do have to ask them such as "how many doors" - now most kits have no doors, but occasionally people do fit doors. When asking if there's any mods a few do get missed off the list occasionally and the individual questions often prompt their memory. As an example, I've spoken to someone recently who forgot about the gearbox change and it was when I asked auto/manual they said, "oh auto, but it used to be manual, sorry can you add that to the mods list" - that's quite a big one to miss off. It just allows us to ensure that the cover we are offering is the right one for you and your car, and nothing is missed off for the insurers to query in a claim. Essentially, we are making sure that if something were to happen then we have the confidence that the information is fully correct. The registration doesn't always pull through the correct information in terms of engine size for example, and a soon as people hear the make and model they often just say "yep" before we've said the other details - this makes sure what we have on your policy documents is accurate. We've actually had NCB proof sent to us from other brokers/insurers which shows the vehicle details incorrect - so we've called the client to check it and it would turn out they've been insured with incorrect models, incorrect vehicle registration year and all sorts for years because they never took a thorough look at the documents (it happens).

Depending on the insurers quoted with, the windscreen approved repairer is likely to be either through National Windscreens who most insurers use or Auto Windscreens who some insurers use. A handful use other repairers such as Autoglass, but majority use National Windscreens.

Carlie

It is for compliance reasons and being regulated by the fca. We do have to ask them, seats for example some people do remove seats, we aren't allowed to presume or lead your answers. I'm actually a little surprised you weren't asked them elsewhere. Perhaps as we are an advised service and many are non advised.

Our insurers use genuine parts in their repairs, if you could pm me your postcode I will check who you spoke to. Did you definitely call Thatcham or was it a local branch? 

Carlie 

26 minutes ago, bbob1 said:

In case anyone is interested I've just moved to A-Plan. I got a good deal from Gareth who beat the price compared with the renewal quoted by my current provider. Thanks.

Thank you!

On 7/5/2021 at 12:08 PM, Stuart21UK said:

@A-Plan Insurance

My renewal is due in the next week, just tried to phone you but gave up after 5 mins holding.

Can someone contact me?

DM me and I'll provide a contact number

Thanks

 

EDIT - don't worry taken via Churchill, needed to get it done today due to other committments

Sorry I missed your message, I was in hospital with my little one so wasn't online. I see you got it sorted with Churchill now, we've had higher than expected call times this week but our hold times haven't really gone over 10 minutes tops.

Carlie

8 hours ago, Truth said:

Had a cheaper quote from Churchills multi car in the end so went with them on the Boxster and the Dacia Duster. £470 , very happy with that.

Will give A plan a call next year again 👍

We can't win them all 😉 but definitely try us next year! 

Carlie 

9 hours ago, Davidbf1.com said:

Well, a year has gone by and I’ve just renewed again with A-Plan. Managed to shave a little from the renewal figure, and a little lower than 2019’s premium  

A-Plan were very helpful and efficient, M*nn**gs still several hundred pounds more, and PCGB’ partner Locktons basically said no point the wasting my time going through all the info, they’d be many hundreds adrift of my renewal figure.

didnt bother calling AS Flux, couldn’t be bothered with their approach - basically whatever they offer/ quit is there and them, to get you to go for it. Bit of a hard sell, which I don’t like.

hoping A-Plan come in competitive on the macan insurance when that’s due in April.

Thanks! Hopefully we do well on the 2nd vehicle too as we do multi discounts 😁 

We can quote up to 30 days before it's due 👍

Carlie 

2 hours ago, Roger C said:

Just had a great quote from A-plan, £279 fully comp with legal cover and £250 excess, thats for two of us to drive with 5k mileage.

My E-Sure renewal was £247 but the excess was £500 compulsory and £100 voluntary, Even though it a bit cheaper I loved the fact that A-plan answer their phone straight away, are very friendly and helpful and there is another means of communication via this forum.

All in all, two thumbs good from me, Im sure you'll be ensuring my Mini in a few weeks.

Rog. 

Thanks Rog, I'm glad we got it sorted!

P.s. I have a mini... love it

1 hour ago, Freeman said:

Gave up on A Plan.

Tried to insure my home, had a great service from my local office but she was bitten big time by Aviva. Then tried to insure the car, provided all information and was quoted ~£750 while my current insurer charges £440, when I mentioned it I was told that they refused to provide the classic cover as the car is too new (2005).

Go figure.

Hi Freeman

I see you chose your local office, the BoXa forum is looked after with club discount by the Thatcham Branch only as we have the facilities for low mileage/leisure vehicles, classic policies, modification cover, track insurance etc. 

Can you pm me your name, post code and contact number so I can see which branch you dealt with and see if there's anything we can do here?

Thanks

Carlie 

On 11/16/2019 at 2:27 PM, Russjmills said:

A thumbs up from me for A Plan. Spoke to a nice chap called Matthew. Very efficient and came up with a very reasonable £240 for my new 996.  Pretty good considering this is second car with no NCB.

Thanks! I'll pass on the thanks to Matthew 🙂 we mirror NCB so that will have helped 👍

On ‎05‎/‎04‎/‎2018 at 5:04 PM, Hario said:

Hi do A-plan provide normal policies which would allow it to be used as my main vehicle with street parking?

Unsure as I thought they were a classic policy only insurer (garaged only) etc.

 

regards

Harry

Hi Hario!

As CMA replied, yes we do! We also do Van and Bike as well as Home and Landlords

18 hours ago, niceone said:

I have had a fantastic quote off them today 

Good to hear! 

Can you pm me your name and postcode so I can see who you spoke to? 

Thanks
Carlie

Sometimes we ca't help everyone  

We are in constant negotiations with Insurers, not just for better rates but better products for our specialist schemes.

Thanks for trying us! 

Good Morning, 

Just to let you all know you need to speak to us here at the Thatcham office. We are the high performance specialists for the A-Plan group. 

We have policies that cover Track days, agreed value, modifications and much more. 

Give us a call on 01635 874646 or click the link in my signature and we will call you back. 

Thanks

Clare