Can you recommend a safe, cheap to insure car for an 18-year-old?

Please could you advise me regarding a car for an 18-year old man who has recently passed his test. His parents require a safe car (good crash test results) and a car with a reasonable insurance premium...

Can I change my insurance company every year to obtain the best quote?

Are there any drawbacks in changing your car insurer every year to get the cheapest quote?

I've been happily insured with Liverpool Victoria for nearly fifty years.

I first went to Liverpool Victoria via Frizzels in April 1966 and have been with them ever since. Back in the 1980s I had ‘any driver’ fully comp, when my second daughter was driving and the car was written...

Do you have to tell your insurer that you've attended a Speed Awareness Course?

After reading of ES of Newton Abbot’s speeding and subsequent Speed Awareness Course, I thought I would add my thoughts after attending a course earlier in the month (56mph in a 50mph). The course is run...

Is there anything I can do about this fraudulent claim on my record from 2009?

In June 2009 I parked my wife's Saab convertible between two empty spaces in a shop car park. When I returned, the space on the Saab's driving side had been taken by a large SUV type vehicle. It was parked...

Tuning my Audi A4

I have a 2004 Audi 130bhp TDi Avant with 140k miles on the clock which I have owned since 50k. I recently purchased a 'TDI Tuning Box' primarily for the increase in MPG, which I have noticed a difference...

Gap in vehicle ownership and motor insurance

Having recently retired and being a city dweller, it makes sense for me to trade in my large saloon car. I now have the chance to sell it to a friend, and am contemplating trying to live without a car...

Car insurance and winter tyres

My Mercedes-Benz E320 is insured by Mercedes-Benz Insurance. Following your advice recently I contacted them to inform them I was fitting winter tyres. They refunded £53 of my premium - an unexpected surprise.

Why is my insurance company settling a minor damage claim 50/50?

In September my wife was involved in an accident in our local supermarket car park. She was waiting to reverse out of a space until a van had passed her. The van cleared her car and she began to reverse....

Should our local boy racer declare his loud exhaust to his insurance company?

You recently published a letter where an insurance company had treated the fitting of cold weather tyres as modification that they should have been told of. Where I live we are plagued by a hoody boy racer...