What if your motor insurance provider told you that you could get up to 25 percent discounted from your next car insurance policy simply by showing them that you were a safe driver? It would sound obvious won’t it - after all, basically, isn’t that what a no claims bonus is all about? Well, you can guess again, because with the new “autograph" device getting up to 25 percent discounted on your car insurance policy in the years to come is going to be a very real experience!
What Is The Autograph?
Basically, an “autograph" is a device that you ask a garage to plug into the diagnostic part of your car (which can be found underneath your steering wheel). The autograph will then record all of your driving skills, including how fast you drive, your average speed, whether or not you need to suddenly break (and, if so, how often), the times of the day that you like to be out and about on the roads, what your average mileage is, what your longest and shortest journeys are. In fact, the list is endless. After a pre-determined period, say three or six months, you then return to garage that installed the autograph and they will uninstall it and replace it with a new one. The old autograph is then plugged into a computer and all the requested recorded data is feed into a computer and sent to your motor insurance provider. Your motor insurance provider can then take a look at all of this recorded data and can decide, more accurately, if you are a high or low risk driver!
Benefits of the Autograph
If you are a good driver, the benefits of agreeing to use an autograph are easy to see – after all, recorded data rarely lies! The downside to using an autograph is the fact that it is recording the data collected in the car. This has two effects – first, you have to have a car capable of recording this data (i.e., not too old); second, the data collection cannot differentiate between drivers. As such, if you have a car in your house that is driven by several different people, the autograph will not be able to tell who is driving the car at any given time. Consequently, if you have your son or daughter on your car insurance and they tell you they like to drive at 50 miles an hour, while the autograph tells the motor insurance provider they like to drive at 120 miles an hour, it’s not likely you are going to be getting the 25 percent policy premium discount you were looking for!
All in all though, as with pay per mile car insurance, getting cheap car insurance using an autograph device, although being the way of the future, is here to stay and will most probably benefit far more motor drives than it inhibits.
Cheap Motor Insurance Quote
Cheap motor insurance can be found and the easiest way to do so is to go with a specialist broker. A broker can search on your behalf and as they are specialists will make sure that they search the UK motor insurance marketplace on for the best deal. With this in mind there is no reason why hundreds of drivers on the road are driving uninsured and illegally which causes other people many problems and substantial cost.
However drivers in some areas should be aware that from September 2007 police have new methods which can help them to crack down on those who try to evade paying out for car insurance. With the help of the Motor Insurers Bureau they now have access to a system which can help them to determine whether or not the driver of a car has insurance. It is hoped that the method will see some success and be used more widely and keep the 78,000 cars which were found to be driven without insurance last year and which police seized off the road next year. With already 29 of Britain's police forces already having signed up for the scheme this year and another 14 expected to be singing before 2008 is rung in it is hoped that these selfish and reckless drivers who cannot be bothered to shop around for cheap motor insurance will be caught and taken off the roads.
Cheap insurance quotes are available to everyone regardless of age and gender, however if you do go with one of the insurers that do offer deals for women drivers, old and younger drivers e.t.c then your quote could be even less. Whichever type of insurance you are going for you cannot get a better or lower quote than going with a specialist broker for your cover. The specialist accesses a wider spectrum of lenders than you could possibly do when making a search on our own because they specialise in digging out the cheapest deals along with giving sensible advice on how you can reduce the cost of your car insurance for yourself.
Ways of reducing the premiums for car insurance are to stick with a small car and lower engine size, installing additional safety features such as steering wheel locks, etched windows, and car alarms and parking your car in a garage overnight. The specialist will also be able to give you the advice you need to ensure that you get the cover for your needs, there are three basic types of car insurance with fully comprehensive being the dearest but of course as the name suggests covers for most eventualities. Third party fire and theft cover comes in the middle and is one of the most popular choices especially for younger drivers and third party only is one of the cheapest but gives very little cover.
Always stick with a broker for the advice and for cheap motor insurance as finding it yourself can be almost impossible and even then you cannot be sure you have searched the entire marketplace.
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