Fun with Confused.com

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Mon 9 May 2005 00:17
Fun with Confused.com - sir_hiss
Thought I'd use the confused.com website to try and reduce the hassle of sorting out insurance on the new car. For reasons best left to itself, I cant seem to persuade the site to give my wife just a part time occupation - it wants a full time occupation as well (which she does not have) and suggests putting in the part time occupation into this box which I duly do. Upon getting the quotes back, picked the one that I wanted and then thought I'd better just check the details through on the insureres website. Incorrect full time occupation was present so I deleted this and ..... premium goes up £50! Now I'm a just a bit concerned about this as if I had left things as they were and had not checked, technically I would not be insured as I would have been telling porkies about my wife's occupation. Has anyone else been caught out by this?
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Mon 9 May 2005 11:25
Fun with Confused.com - Hawesy1982
Confused.com seems to be weird with things like that.

My own experience is that when i input my car's registration number, it tells me that it is a 1.4, and quotes accordingly.

My car is actually a 1.6, but confused.com was happy to give me a very low quote due to it's mistake on the engne size. This seems strange as every other website correctly identifys my reg as a 1.6.

Needless to say i didn't take on the incorrectly-low quote after i spotted the error, but a less meticulous person may easily have not noticed the difference between 1397 and 1597, and taken on non-legal coverage.

I wonder what would happen if a claim was made and this error spotted? I bet the insurance company wouldn't just say 'oops, don't worry about it'!
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Mon 9 May 2005 22:48
Fun with Confused.com - sir_hiss
Probably means the DVLA database has the wrong info. Just been through the same hassle with the new car. Its a 2001 V70 2.4T SE Geartronic but according to the number plate details its a only a lowly V70 2.4T. Discovered this Saturday night 5 hours after putting down the deposit ,cue one sleepless night wondering if I'd been taken from a ride. Turned out that the DVLA info was wrong!
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