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With Admiral ours is £250 I think. From personal experience I wouldn’t bother claiming for anything less than £600 or so. I did that once before and my premium went up significantly when i renewed. One other time I called about how much my premium would increase if I claimed on a no fault incident (someone hit my car when parked when in France and didn’t leave any details). Direct line who I was with at the time said my premium would increase anyway since I had reported it, whether I claimed or not! Even though it was not my fault their stance was that I was statistically more likely to make a claim in future as my car had been involved in an incident. So now I would only phone through if I was claiming for something major.
I had this once too. An uninsured driver hit out old Peugeot with his quad bike. I called the insurance to assess whether it was worth claiming (small bumper damage and a light). As the car was worth very little, they said it would be written off so I told them we would not claim. On renewal, it was recorded as an incident and even though we never claimed, they told me it has to be recorded as an incident and my risk of having an incident had increased. I told them it was nonsense as it was a drunk non insured driver who was racing around and happened to hit my car so how does that make me more likely to have an incident? Fell on deaf ears and I would never ask them for advice about an incident again.
I expect their argument would be that your car is parked in an area where "drunk non-insured drivers are racing around on quad bikes" - evidently.
And while you are right that it would have been cheaper to never raise it with them in the first place, strictly-speaking you are bound to report it to them or risk having your policy invalidated (in the unlikely event that they ever found-out).
From a legal point of view, do you need to report any incident to the insurance, even if you have no intention of claiming? Including someone causing a scuff? Or reversing into a wall in the car park and causing a scratch/scuff? Genuine question
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