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Name: Car Insurance
Rating: 2.78 (111 reviews)

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2.47

Based on 111 reviews, last reviewed 14th Feb 2025

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Latest highest rating:

5

Great experience with Swindon when sorting out my ca... Great experience with Swindon when sorting out my car insurance. They requested additional information and I was kept updated on the whole process. Th... Read more Reviewed on: 24th August 2024

Latest lowest rating:

1

Insurance increased by 300% I recently had my insurance premium increased from £38 per month to £108 per month. This is without any claims for over 7 years, I have logged a compl... Read more Reviewed on: 14th February 2025

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We collect Swinton car insurance reviews to give you insight into what you can expect as a Swinton Insurance policyholder.

Swinton was founded in 1957 and by 1987 had 220 branches nationwide. Swinton now offers a variety of motor insurance policies, with all comprehensive policies including a promise of market value payouts.

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Swinton Insurance Car Insurance reviews (111)

Review of the Swinton Insurance, Car Insurance:

Theives

Cancelled my policy 9 months in and because I brought online they charged me an extra £40 for cancellation charges. Which was half my original policy. Refused to continue the policy because I had sold my bike. And no waving of cancellation fee because I took the policy out online. Will never use swinton again. Reviewed on: 29th May 2021

Best I Could Find

This is my second year with them. I found that they beat all other quotes i could find for the same package. Reviewed on: 14th October 2016

Great all round service

Great value. Fantastic customer service. Reviewed on: 18th September 2016

Helping

Very helpful and sorts problems out very quick Reviewed on: 13th September 2016

Very old fashioned business model and very poor value for renewals

I joined Swinton due to the cheap price that I was offered and a cash back offer through a cashback website. I was initially shocked that I had to physically post several items to a branch and that the opening hours of the branch seemed to hark back to the 1970's. When the cash back was due to be paid I had to wait for approximately 6 months. They did eventually rectify this after much pursuing from me. They then phoned me when I needed to renew and as I was busy I asked for... Reviewed on: 28th August 2016

Car swap.

IF YOU WANT TO SWAP THE CAR THEY ADD A NEW FULL YEAR POLICY ON THE TOP OF EXISTING ONE !!! In my case additional £680 ! Don't take the Swinton. Reviewed on: 28th August 2016

Re-newal

The only company that did not raise it's prices at re-newal time and were the cheapest. Reviewed on: 26th August 2016

Rip off dont use

I am a motor trader and we constantly arrange insurance as a free service for our customers Whenever a customer says they are with swinton we say "oh no not swindle" we have found that without any doubt they have been ripped off we constantly save our customers up to £700 one of our customers was paying over 200 for rac cover, what a joke should be ashamed of themselves. Reviewed on: 25th August 2016

Felt I had been conned

Took out car insurance with Swintons online for a good price ,A couple of months later I had to change the cover to a different car so I rang them only to be told that the company insuring my vehicle would not insure me because the car I wanted to change the insurance to had a factory immobaliser and alarm.He then proceeded to get me a quote from another company which was for £350.00. I told him I didn't want it as I felt it was far to expensive, I then went online to find swi... Reviewed on: 23rd August 2016

Amazing help after keys stolen

Had a fantastic experience after our car keys were stolen from our house. Rang insurance and told where to take car to have locks changed, paperwork ready when we got there, courtesy car given, extremely polite, would never have expected such good service! Reviewed on: 16th August 2016

Great company

Been with swinton for years on and off always end up going back to them. Reviewed on: 13th August 2016

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