What is going on with car insurance comparison sites?
comparison sites are a wonderful thing in general but they seem to throw up some rather odd issues, i was searching for insurance for various cars i was looking at and one came up really cheap(just under £500 for the year) sadly the car sold before i got paid today
however i saw another for sale, basically the same but a year older with lower mileage, ran the insurance quote...... £938??
i was confused, the car was essentially the same just a year older, so i decided to pull up some photos of other 1300cc 2005 Ford Ka's that matched the original one i searched and run the reg plates through the comparison, surely theyll be the same right?
literally every single one came back different ranging from as low as £489 to as high as £1,150
how or why would this be? i feel like theres something slightly wiggy with the algo and somewhere out there will be a vehicle that comes back with a quote of about £10 or something
i know insurance companies are picky gits at the best of times but this seems insane, the only real possible difference i could see would be either the colours or the "trim" which usually consists of little more than body coloured bumpers which shouldnt really double the insurance cost, also cars of identical trim and colour returned different results too
For reference all searches were done on Compare The Market for comprehensive insurance against a number of various 2005 Ford Ka 1.3s found via google image search. the only change for each quote was the number plate of the vehicle