Jump to content
SAU Community

Recommended Posts

sup vic ppls,

apparently someone on the forums was/is a good contact for shannon's insurance? I'm with shannons at the moment, but i rang just cars for a laugh, and they ended up being $500 cheaper. I know the Shannons policy is better, but $500 is a big difference.

i'm up for renewal, and just wondering if i could possibly speak to this contact. I know some people here have gone through this person. A vic member has pointed me in a direction for someone to pm, but i've had no response.

cheers,

daniel

Link to comment
https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/163243-whos-got-the-shannon-contacts/
Share on other sites

  • Replies 51
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

the gio one is called custom car insurance

they f**ked me around last week

got a quote, then i went to take it out, they said im sorry, but we have made a mistake.

original quote was $969 a year full comp

the new quote was $2600 lol

for a stock as rock s1 stagea.

i have now taken out insurance again with vigil. $927 a year full comp, pay $250 quarterly.

the gio one is called custom car insurance

they f**ked me around last week

got a quote, then i went to take it out, they said im sorry, but we have made a mistake.

original quote was $969 a year full comp

the new quote was $2600 lol

for a stock as rock s1 stagea.

i have now taken out insurance again with vigil. $927 a year full comp, pay $250 quarterly.

Yeah I saw the add in a free mag. I had a feeling that this would be the case and they'd be a massive rip off. Still I'll give them a call and see how they can jerk me round too :happy:

GIO = rip off

$3386.21

R34 GTT, 23, clean record

it's like the early days of Just Cars :blush: - although just cars are stupidly cheap now, just that the excess's and choice of repairer options are shit

ryno insurance was even cheaper or the same price thereabouts for both the 180 and R32 and appear to have the same benefits as shannons.. eg agreed value, 14days car hire, lifetime guarantee on repairs, choice of repairer, pay by the month.

Just Cars don't even have choice of repairer and only 3 yrs guarantee on repairs etc... even if Matt from Shannons can't match that $500.. if something happens you might end up having to take your car to Dodgy McShoddy to get it fixed, and not very well.

We'll probably change to Ryno but not until we get the protected rating from shannons, which you get after 2? yrs with no claims. Otherwise we have to serve the same periods again.

They have online quotes too.

The only thing is that I don't know anyone who has made a claim through Ryno yet, so I don't know how hard that is or if they screw you around etc.

Anyway hope that helps :P

~Kaz

cheers Kaz :)

yeah i have written Just Cars off. the piece of mind you get with Shannons far outweights the $500, but it did beg the question if i could get a cheaper premium though.

I rang Vigil, who are very similar to Shannons, agreed value, lifetime guarantee, choice of repairer, etc... it was about $1380.

That's the the thing, i'm not too keen on signing up with someone if no-one has claimed before. Shannons i have no dramas what-so-ever, but some of these newer companies, i'm a little more hesistant.

I gave famous a call, but they tried to call back at a bad time, so i'll see how they go as well.

I'm in the same boat. I'm 23 soon, and need to renew on the 180. My JCI premium renewal for the next year is $1460, so I want to see if Shannons can match that (considering I hardly drive the car anymore). Plus, like you said, the choice of repairer is something I'd prefer to have control over.

might suit you as Shannons has like a "usage" feature. I'm on limited usage as i don't drive the car every day, but there is an extreme limited use policy, might be good for you.

Vigil has something similar i think.

Ryno is no go as you have to have owned a hi-performance car before. That's the first time i've ever heard something like that, but it does make sense.

i know Shannos has an extreme low use policy, which seems like would be what you're after. I *think* Vigil has something as well.

Should be cheaper than J.C., you can pay by the month, and no extra cost. And your repair options are infinitely better. worth a bit extra

  • 1 month later...

Apologies for digging up an old thread again, but I've tried PM'ing 8OO5TED and got no reply. I've tried twice now.

I've also PM'ed GTRSOUL (Chris).

So do we have a shannons contact?

Has Matt (8OO5TED) or Chris (GTRSOUL) helped anyone recently?

Oh, and yes I have read through the entire insurance thread. I've got a nice large list of insurance companies I need to try and contact soon though :P

Apologies for digging up an old thread again, but I've tried PM'ing 8OO5TED and got no reply. I've tried twice now.

I've also PM'ed GTRSOUL (Chris).

So do we have a shannons contact?

Has Matt (8OO5TED) or Chris (GTRSOUL) helped anyone recently?

Oh, and yes I have read through the entire insurance thread. I've got a nice large list of insurance companies I need to try and contact soon though :wub:

Was in a similar boat to you. I have PM'd Matt and this is the first time he hasnt replied to me. I ended up calling and the policy had gone up by $200 which I wasnt happy about (no claims, convictions, rating 1 protected etc). Apparently the car had forced it up. They then put our other car on this policy which was supposed to have happened when we insured it back in November. That made a significant saving off setting the increase on the Evo.

As a result the Evo has been reinsured with them but it made life so much easier with Matt.

i got a cheaper quote with Vigil (very similar type of company to shannon's, also based in Melb), but a few little better things with shannon's such as agreed value. So i told shannon's i had a better quote, and the guy said we can do this... and that's all we can do. He was very uninterested, not the usual enthusiast type people i usually get.

so yeah, i asked for a better price saying i had a better quote. Now on about $1390 per year.

23, no bad history, R34 GT-T.

Ryno won't insure you if you haven't owned a hi-performance car previously (makes sense)

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now



  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • Take the value it measured as, and pick the closest range available that is above the reading on the screen.   Also, no point just testing the coils. Read what has been said again. You need to test all your wiring, everything.
    • Does the scanner do all the CUs in the car, or only the ECU?
    • @666DAN sorry to bring you and old thread.     I've got my de+t done and it's all running great other than 1 small issue.    Car has remained auto with the na auto and tcm, I've used a stagea ecu with. NIstune board and everything is great other than my gear selection on the dash. It illuminates park, reverse, neutral, 3rd and 2nd when selected . But nothing when in  drive or what gear your in when you pop it into tiptronic. I'm sure there is maybe 1 wire in the ecu plug I need to move to rectify this. Do ya have any ideas?     Cheers man
    • Well I recently changed my rear axles and was thinking if I bumped anything, I have been driving the car for a while now though... But it has been raining today so everything is wet under the wheel arches. Brakes feel fine and can't hear any of the metal screamers, I had a squeak coming from one of the handbrake drums but that seems to have gone away a while ago. I was going down a hill when it lit up and I did feel the abs bite for a second and question why it did it?
    • Correct. Um. I dunno. I haven't cared enough about the way that the NA cars work to know for sure. But..... The 33/34 turbo manual cars have an electronic speed sensor in the gearbox that outputs a +/- (ie, sawtooth AC) voltage signal. That is connected to the speedo. The speedo then outputs a 0-5v square wave (ie, PWM) signal that the ECU (and any other CU on the bus) sees. The speed sensor is NOT directly connected to the ECU. So here's the problem. Your new ECU expects to see the PWM signal, but must somehow be getting a direct signal from the diff speed sensor. Which would suggest that the wiring of the NA car is not the same as the turbo cars. I think you will need to spend some time with (hopefully the wiring diagram for the car) and a multimeter to see what is connected to what. Then, presuming I am correct**, you would then want to separate the ECU speed signal input from the rest of the car's wiring, and probably either buy a speed signal converter, or build one using an arduino (or similar). That would take in the speed sensor signal and output a scaled (and suitably rearranged) signal for the ECU. ** We shouldn't presume that I am correct here, because there might be something else crazy going on. I don't think you could convert the speedo to be fed from the gearbox sensor, because the pulse rate from that sensor is probably different to the diff sensor and then the speedo would read wrongly. And this also wouldn't fix the ECU's problem either, because the ECU doesn't want to see the gearbox signal direct either (assuming that they are all on the same wiring, for some odd NA related reason, see above caveat!) Does this help? Probably not. Can you make it work? Almost certainly. With the above work. You should buy a handheld oscilloscope from Aliexpress so that you can view these signals directly. Connect up the probes and drive the car. Show photos of the screen when drving at known speeds and connected to different places, and we'll see what we can learn about it.
×
×
  • Create New...