Tesco Insurance

I have been insured with Tesco car insurance now for about 4 years. The reason I insured with them was largeley that they gave the lowest quote. I know that you never really know how good your insurance provider is until you have to make a claim. Two weeks ago, after nearly 9 years accident free on the road, I had my first accident. Driving home from work, on a hot Friday afternoon, I misjudged the traffic infront of me, and when I went to break, ...
...had recieved a fax from Tesco authorising them to quote on the vehicle. I also recieved a telephone call from a car rental company letting me know they had recieved the booking, and that a car would be available on the Monday. In my opinion, Tesco dealt with this very efficiently. On the following Tuesday, I recieved a call asking for further details on the passengers in the other vehicle involved and I was told that they were just about to call ...

Gertie25 16.07.2006 (30.06.2007) · Read full review
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...page, this will open the Tesco personal finance website in a new screen, for you. Here you can find information not only on car insurance, but for pet, home, travel insurance, etc, along with loans, credit cards and saving accounts, amongst others. If you really want to you can take a site tour from this page, but heck, I didn't have time for that, lead me to the motor insurance, as fast as you can, please! So, after one more easy click through to ...
...away that Tesco offer a valuable 5% discount if you buy their motor insurance on line. However, I remained a little sceptical about this offers, as in my search I had come across several other insurers offering similar deals (often with much higher discounts) but these discounts were often completely negated by the ridiculously high price of the quote provided! Getting a quote on the Tesco internet site was incredibly easy, the quickest and easiest ...

mokee 20.02.2003 · Read full review
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...the Call Centres. Tesco Motor Insurance ------------------------ Tesco’s Motor Insurance is offered through Tesco Personal Finance Limited [TPFI]. TPFI also offers loans, travel insurance, pet insurance, house insurance, visa card, savings and even mortgages and pensions. You may also like to know that TPFI is a joint venture between The Royal Bank of Scotland [RBS] and Tesco. This link is significant and comparable to Direct Line who are ...
...Tesco Motor Insurance is provided by UK Insurance Limited. They are a member of Association of British Insurers and the Ombudsman. Insurance Premium Quotes --------------------------- Insurance varies drastically according to age, engine size and number of years ‘No Claims Discount’ [NCD]. I was looking for fully comprehensive cover, for a 2.0L engine car (Group13-14 Insurance Group). Fortunately I have always had ‘protected’ ...

Connoisseur_Haggler 01.08.2001 (27.05.2003) · Read full review
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Tesco is one place I would never have thought of looking for motor insurance until accidentally clicking a link from www.bluecarrots.com. Well I had nothing to lose did I? Some of you may have already seen my op about my previous insurer. Last year after around 10 years claim free motoring, I was very unlucky to have a prang in the local leisure centre car-park, followed about 2 months later by a much nastier bump on the motorway whilst visiting ...
...the option to enter your Tesco Club Card details, although not quite sure if you pick up points through insurances! - anyone enlighten me? SUMMARY The process was very simple and straightforward. I have had no dealings with their customer services department as everything was done on-line, quickly and painlessly. Sadly with most insurance companies, your first real experience can be when you need to make a claim, so hopefully I will not be updating ...

sue.51 22.05.2001 · Read full review
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...last November, why I chose Tesco and a summary of the Tesco car insurance policy. Bear in mind that this is only the third time that I have bought car insurance so I am pretty naïve about the subject. APATHY IS PROFITABLE My existing car insurer was Norwich Union Direct. A few months ago they published a survey where 8 out of 10 car owners did not shop around for quotes. They simply stayed with their existing insurer. So NU Direct gave new clients ...
...go into more detail about Tesco later on. Sainsburys Bank Quote: No quote given I first went to the Sainsburys home page, then to Sainsburys Bank and finally to the car insurance page. I entered my car details. No quote was given due to the type of vehicle selected. I was quite surprised at this. Sainsburys only entered the car insurance market last year. Being a new entrant I thought that their quote would be competitive enough to lure customers ...

mrpaella 17.01.2003 · Read full review
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Well I never thought I would find cheap, yet quality, car insurance at Tesco's but I was mistaken! If you like getting value for money then read on... I have been surfing the net for cheap, but adequate, car insurance for my other half, as he nearly had heart failure the other night when his renewal came through and was a lot higher than expected. Mind you, that may have something to do with the fact that he managed to get caught speeding in December ...
...for it. I decided to try out Tesco's as I have seen a lot of adverts for their financial products, and I liked what I saw. Their site is very easy to navigate, the form you had to fill in to obtain a quote was short, but to the point, and once you hit the submit button it was a couple of minutes wait until you got your quote, no having to ring around and spend ages answering lots of questions. And the best part was that if you go ahead with it over ...

nicci13 18.05.2001 · Read full review
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Surfing the web for the best deal can be annoying and frustrating but it can pay off..... If your car insurance is due in the near future and you're awaiting the renewel quote, prepare to cry like a baby. They've gone up like a rocket. What with floods, more uninsured drivers, plagues, locusts rife throughout the land (and all the other excuses the insurance companies use), expect to see your premiums rise. My case in point - on the month leading ...
...my premium (done through the Halifax) to rise a bit, but not by the mind-curdling amount of £170 ! From previously paying £420-ish which included a roadside recovery, legal assisstance and windscreen cover package I was quoted in an insanely cheerful letter the price of £590! Cue one disbeliving phone call to the very nice lady in the Halifax Call Centre (which is in my home town of Stockton on Tees) who was very sorry but that was the projected ...

Andrew19111 05.09.2001 · Read full review
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...I saw the ad’s for Tesco Motor Insurance over on dooyoo. Tesco? I thought…..Motor Insurance? I didn’t actually know that they had branched out into finances and you can actually get a lot of financial services and help from Tesco Finances. It’s not limited to Motor Insurance, they also have Home and life insurance aswell as business and personal loans. I suppose everyone else knows this already, but it was a surprise to me! ...
...ad, whisked away to the Tesco Finance homepage. I noticed that you could get an online quote in a few minutes, so I gave it a go. Now, If you have ever used Direct Line’s online insurance quote form, then you’ll recognize the Tesco one. They both run on the same backbone structure, which is very easy to understand, and what’s more, pretty damn quick too. You are asked to enter your usual details, name, date of birth, any convictions, ...

GR-Design 06.10.2001 · Read full review
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...they finally admitted liability. Tesco took the garage deatils and quote for my car, but sat on it for two weeks, so when I had to return my courtesy car after 14 days, Tesco said 'We can't find your car - where did you take it again?'. They had been calling the wrong garage. After 7 promises that they will write to me confirming the accident was not my fault as the other party admitted liability, and therefore my no claims would be protected, still ...
...been better off not involving Tesco in this at all, as I have had to do all the legal work, garage arrangements, collection of evidence, courtesy car hire, solicitor consultations, instigation of court proceedings, tel. calls and letters (2 and a half ring binders) myself. Tesco say they'll fight your corner every step of the way - they never lifted a finger to help settle my case, which was small scale, straight forward, involved no personal injuries, ...

bgy8elp 28.07.2005 · Read full review
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...a friend who also uses Tesco for her insurer, that they are very clear and straight to the point- and they don't try to flog you anything you don't want either (great advantage!) Hope I have helped a bit! I reccommend this company to you - why not get an on-line quote now? Website ******** www.tescofinance.com Address ******* Tesco Motor Insurance Cote Lane Leeds LS28 5ZX Customer Service Contact Number ******************************* ...

JADELOUISESILVA 27.04.2003 · Read full review
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...Next step - I call Tesco Insurance to tell them of the accident. I give them the details of the officer. Lastly I organise the replacement car as I couldn't use mine. Firstly they tell me that someone will be in touch later in the day with regards to the replacement car. A day goes by and I still haven't received that call. I call them up again but this time the representative tells me that he cannot see a replacement car request on his system! ...
...had re-registered the car in Tesco Motor Insurance's name. So you would have thought that maybe they would've picked up on this. Or maybe my expectations are a bit much? Anyway, I explain to them and thought that would be the end of it. Wrong! Again a call comes through asking if I had found a suitable cover yet and if not then maybe to reconsider them! At this point I didn't know whether to laugh, cry or simply slam the phone down! But I'm a nice ...

leo2483 19.08.2006 · Read full review
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...I would recommend Tesco Car Insurance to anyone. The web site is easy to use and very straightforward. The form was simple to fill in, the quote was instant and you can pay online. My documents arrived the next day; all I had to do was sign them and return a copy in a prepaid envelope. The savings for me were fantastic and I’m sure they could be for others too. Next year I will still look around at different insurance companies as I think it ...

Yazoo 13.09.2001 · Read full review
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Shopping around for good car insurance at a competitive rate can be a frustrating and time consuming affair. Tescos is relatively new to the insurance market but you can be assured of a competitive premium if you choose them. We have been using Tescos for a couple of years now and unlike some other companies, after the first year, the premiums remain competitive. Usually after a few phone calls you end up renewing your insurance with someone else ...
...addition to this there is the added bonus that you can apply for your insurance online. This also provides you with a 5% discount. To apply online is simple. You just enter the Tescos website and select car insurance from the homepage. You are then taken through a number of screens where you provide personal information, car details, claim history/points etc. This is basically the same information which you would normally provide over the telephone. ...

lorna139 02.05.2004 · Read full review
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...had just got insurance from Tesco and was telling me how cheap it was, but his car was a 1.1 Litre Citroen Saxo which i didnt expect to be expensive, So i gave Tesco a ring and was pleasently suprised they quoted me £990 Third party which was half the price of other insurers i was shocked! I checked the brilliant online website to see if they had made a mistake (Gives you online quotes) I took out the insurance with Tesco and am very pleased with ...
...£100 excess which covered a new window, new back seats and a new CD Head Unit and Speakers. The service at Tesco is excellent and i would recommend it to anyone, all my friends are now insured by them! Ring Tesco last and save yourself some serious money. ...

madcaddies667 22.01.2003 · Read full review
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Just the thought of Tesco Car Insurance makes gives me \"the jitters\". I have several reasons to distrust Tesco Insurance and hope to prove throughout this review that Cheap is not always best. I moved to the United Kingdom last year. I have held a full driver\'s license in two other countries previous to my arrival and have been driving for several years. I have never had a driving conviction and have been insured on several different cars, from ...
...choice but to settle for Tesco Car Insurance. I had initially taken the train to my university, but my lateness was notable thanks to the unreliable Reading-Waterloo Southwest train route and the train tickets were coming out far more expensive than actually buying a car. As a student, I was offered different quotes but none of them compared to the 400 pounds a year insurance for my Citroen C3 quoted by Tesco Insurance. The first evidence of bad ...

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