I had been with my previous insurer for 17 years with only a couple of claims when other people hit my car and had no problems making the claim, a couple of times when the insurance renewal came through I checked with other providers and as it was less than £50 difference I didn't see the point in changing. However last year my daughter passed her driving test and they wanted to charge me £1300 to cover the remaining 9 mths of my policy meaning that the annual policy would have been close to £2k, I shopped around and initially got a quote for £1700 when I rang to see if my previous insurer would match they weren't interested, I shopped around further and a quote off Diamond for just over £800 with no obvious differences in the small print. My previous insurer has now lost my household and pet insurance also as I didn't get quotes when I took the policy out on the basis I was happy with the car insurance, I let the policies come to an end and then shopped around and saved yet more money.