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I'm with A-Plan, have been for the last 5 years insuring an mgf, T reg s type and now my current S type. last year I paid £299 comp with a £250 excess and with full ncb and an sp30. this year my renewal was for £330. Rang them explaining that I'd had a quote for £252 with a £100 excess and protected ncb and legal cover. They said the best they could do was £266 with a £150 excess and protected ncb. not worth the hassle of changing for a few quid.

Yes. My father got his renewal notice through one year and the premium had gone up by £30. He spoke to the company and after some pushing the operator admitted that if he let the policy lapse and then called them back to start a new one it may well be cheaper. So that's what he did, his "new" policy premium was £20 less than the year before, a difference of £50, or about 30% from the renewal.. It sounds to me like a pricing structure designed to take advantage of commonplace auto-policy-renewals, automatic Direct Debit payments and the fact that many people don't have the time to shop around for new cover and above all value convenience. Did you get a quote from Dan then Steve?

Totally agree Andrew the insurers, just take a punt that the customer cant be bothered to look around for a better price, and I bet there are a few out there that don't! Regards Steve

Every year i shop around and end up changing insurers . Last year RAC were cheapest , but on renewal they more than DOUBLED what they wanted the year before . How can this happen when nothing has changed , no accidents , points etc ? Back with 1st Central now at £335 fully comp for 3.0 L X-type who were cheapest the year before RAC and then did the same thing by nearly doubling the renewal price . Why don't these company's just look after their existing customers instead of the new ones ? Probably just hoping people auto renew and not shop around . Personally i think people are a bit more wiser these days and fifteen minutes on the net can save you a fortune .

Let me elaborate; I had been given a quote, I said that it just wasn't competitive. The operator said she would speak to her supervisor to see what could be done. Ten seconds later she comes back offering a quote some £60 cheaper which undercut my previous best by £10. It was at this point I asked for a reference number and was told that unless I took the "offer" during the call it would be null and void, if I called back later the price of the policy would go back up to the original quote. So it would seem that at least one of the quotes was good for longer than the call... Regardless of the legality that is dirty and smacks of high pressure selling scare tactics. I do not have my reference books to hand immediately but will double check on the legal aspect as soon as I can. If I'm wrong about the law being broken then I will of course apologise. My taste is women, even if they do work in a call centre. But this is car insurance, a financial product, it's about as stimulating as Nora Batty. I just can't see how the two can be associated by anyone with even half as much going on upstairs as downstairs.

Personally I wouldn't touch Adrian Flux with someone else's bargepole. A good couple of years ago I called them and after disclosing my best quote so far was offered a policy at a slightly lower price. I asked for a reference number but was told that this special price was only available whilst I was on the phone. I calmly asked for the girls name and said that I wanted to speak to her manager. When she asked me why I told her that she had broken the law and I wanted to know why her manager taught/encouraged such behaviour, she hung up on me. When I phoned back every operator told me their was no record that I had even had a quote. No wonder I record all business phone calls now.. October 2015; I got a quote on Google Compare with Adrian Flux as the provider. It was a good quote and so I accepted it. I then got a phone call the day before the cover was due to start to tell me that the policy had been cancelled as I had not disclosed a County Court Judgement against me. I did not know I had ever had one and there is no evidence that I do (another story). I had paid for the policy outright which had nearly emptied my bank account so I couldn't afford another policy with someone else. It took Adrian Flux over four days to return my money during which time I was uninsured and so couldn't get to work 20 miles away. This cost me approximately £350. I went back through the "Google Compare" system and at no point was I asked if I had a CCJ. So even if I had known that I (allegedly) had one I wasn't asked about it so Adrian Flux assumed that I didn't and therefore based my quote on false information. I tried to get compensation for my loss of earnings but was given such a load of contradictory BS by the legal department that I would have needed a law degree to decipher it, shamefully I gave up and moved on like a good prole should. The company and their practice ethos is absolutely disgusting. I doubt they are significantly worse than any other but I've been burned twice by a company that drapes semi-naked slags across cars to sell their services, that's enough for me to take time out to bad-mouth them. They have a website which to be fair is not as cheap looking as the Max Power type ads from before but still has nothing to do with something as boring and bureaucratic as insuring your car; http://www.fluxbabes.co.uk/ That just screams professionalism doesn't it? I'll be sure to choose my next phone and broadband supplier by how much skin they show dancing on a telegraph pole..

Hi Have you checked it with a multi meter check the battery voltage, should be over 12 volts, not running, with engine running 14 volts to 14.5 volts if you have over 14volts check the connections on the back of the alternator, battery warning light is operated by the alternator any thing under 13 volts with the engine running and you have a problem, check alternator belt is tight cheers Joe

Hi Tommyjag, Glad the solution was immediate replacement of a faulty part...these things happen. Hopefully it's not a sign of things to come and that you thoroughly enjoy your Jag over the forthcoming years. Regards Trevor