Insurance - Superb Elegance Wagon

[SkodaK]

Just organising a cover note for the fast-approaching delivery day and RACV (in Victoria) have quoted me $766. That seems reasonable given the other reports here, but considering the renewal on my MY02 Verada wagon is $401 for the same standard of cover, it's quite a jump.

[woofy]

NO offence, but an 02 Verada would be worth um....well less than 10k which will be why.

[SkodaK]

None taken, but I've been paying this premium since I drove it off the lot as a $40K new vehicle 9 years ago. I guess as a percentage of new price the premium has always been around 1%, and since the Superb was $55K, it's premium is a lot less than that.

[Iwishtheyweremorereliable]

Skoda Insurance - took the new Superb home 2 weeks ago - with the free Allianz insurance. I wrote an email a couple of days before delivery asking for a copy of the insurance along with a few other things relating to my rego just to make sure everything was ok for delivery.

Fine....well not quite. Picked up the car from the dealer (a sole salesman) in a dealership owned by Audi up the road. I forgot about getting a copy of the certificate, rang the Skoda dealer when I drove home just to make sure the car was insured.

Nope - they forgot about it.

The Skoda bloke quickly blamed the Audi guys and said they were too busy to arrange the insurance in time. He then rang Audi, and they suggested that until they get around to it, maybe I can just get a cover note for it. WTF!!!

I then rang the person responsible in Audi. He said I'd have to come in and sign some paperwork to get the insurance in place. I then said to him that I couldn't drive it in there to sign the form - they should come to me. The dealer (being a No1 smartarse) then said -of course you can drive it just won't be insured, besides we are just to busy to send someone to you. Needless to say I wasn't impressed and gave him a two worded response.

In short, after much BS they came over to my house the next day so that the insurance could be put in place. I really like the Skoda so far, but this dealer needs to pick up his act.

[spaz74]

Just organising a cover note for the fast-approaching delivery day and RACV (in Victoria) have quoted me $766. That seems reasonable given the other reports here, but considering the renewal on my MY02 Verada wagon is $401 for the same standard of cover, it's quite a jump.

Just did a quote with RACV online for the TSI model. I am 40 with a perfect record and my quote was 100% more expensive than yours! They want $1503. I think, yah, I know I won't be dealing with RACV

[woofy]

Something wrong there, I pay $900 with business use, 33 with a flawless driving record and an 08 rs and that's with racv.

[rapidattack]

Im still dirty on this!

Why are people so unkind.

[spaz74]

Considering the costs I mentioned before I ended up going with CGU for agreed value of $58000 at $1000. Still a bit pricey but better than the other bigger insurance companies.