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And it ended up in a discussion about whether it's worth protecting your no claims or not. Now I've been driving 9 years, and have never protected any no claims, if we take an average of about £35 to do this for 8 years (obviously I wouldn't have the option the first year) we're looking at a saving of about £280 over this period of time.

Today I got my renewal, and I was shitting it (first time I've ever had a claim) and I was expecting an increase of about £200-£300 considering I had lost a couple of years no claims in the process (you don't lose them all)

My increase? £28 so, basically, in my occasion at least, it's definitely not worth protecting them.
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Not what I would have expected at all.
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Maybe it's just Aviva... they really are the bollocks, still over £150 cheaper than the next cheapest company, which was Admiral I think.
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Good info for future reference, cheers.

Been debating on whether to protect mine for a while now.
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You can only protect from 4 years.

Also depends how much they are charging initially as to whether that's good or not.

Also, are you down to 0 nbc or did they just take a couple off?
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He would've lost 2. Thats what my insurer told me.
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That's a reason for not protecting them then, if you are above 5 anyway, only losing 2 won't make much difference. If you lost them all it would be different.



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I think there has generally been a decrease in premiums anyway so that may have absorbed some of the icnrease
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Did you get any other quotes either? Most renewal offers seem to go up anyway, even if you have a clean year...

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I do wonder this, as always protected mine, and remember it costing as much as £70 once.

Never crashed or claimed so i might of wasted loads of money really.

Might be a bit wild next year and not bother protecting it, does seem like another gimmick for them to earn money from.
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I've never really got this protected no claims even tho I've paid for it the last 3 years lol. The way I see it is if you make a claim your 9 yrs bonus is still intact, however once your renewal comes through they can still bump up your premium due to making a claim. Is this the case???
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Exactly. Hence why they ask you if you've been involved in any accidents. If it was purely based on NCB they wouldn't ask.

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So paying the extra for protected ncb is a waste of money then???
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quote:
Originally posted by big eck
I've never really got this protected no claims even tho I've paid for it the last 3 years lol. The way I see it is if you make a claim your 9 yrs bonus is still intact, however once your renewal comes through they can still bump up your premium due to making a claim. Is this the case???


That's the way I see it, only you don't take the 'double hit' of both having had and accident AND loosing NCB, just the hit of having had the accident, which is presumably less.
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It would have been worth it for me as I'vebeen stepped back from 5 years to 3 due to (not knowingly) having it. It's cost me as well.
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Yes, but if you have more than 5 years then it probably wouldn't be worth it.
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quote:
Originally posted by pow
It would have been worth it for me as I'vebeen stepped back from 5 years to 3 due to (not knowingly) having it. It's cost me as well.


That's exactly what happened to me, from 5 to 3.

Although, I had 8, but Aviva only counts it as 5 which is their maximum. I wonder if I leave them and go to another company will I have 6? i.e. 8 - 2, or 3
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Well thats rather confusing.
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Had you crashed a couple of years the circumstances would had been massively different, and I would have imagined come renewal you would have suffered.

For me it's all about risk. It's taken you 8 years to get to the point that it tips in your favour, and I think that the risk outweighs the cost at £35 a year. For me I would pay £35 for piece of mind driving especially in the early years.
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Okay but in theory I've gone from 8 years NCB to 3 years NCB and it's cost me £28 which is £5.60 per year.

Why pay £35+ per year to save myself from losing £5.60 per year?
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Im struggling to understand why protecting only costs you £35 its always been £80+ for me to protect. I have 9 years now and just renewed didnt protect because wanted £100 this year
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Never cost me that much to protect or I wouldn't have bothered. Don't think it's ever been more than £15 extra.

 
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