Western Cape storms prompt SA drivers to discover they've been overpaying on car insurance for years Homeowners forced to review their insurance after the June 2026 storm damage found car insurance policies untouched for up to five years — and savings of R200–R600 per month waiting on the table. CAPE TOWN: The severe storms that swept the Western Cape in June 2026, causing widespread property damage and a surge in insurance claims, have had an unexpected secondary effect: thousands of South African homeowners are reviewing their full insurance portfolios for the first time in years — and discovering their car insurance has been quietly inflating on a debit order they never revisited. For many, the car insurance policy sitting alongside their home cover had not been compared since inception. Industry data shows that SA insurers increase premiums at every annual review, and the spread between the cheapest and most expensive insurer for identical cover on the same vehicle can exceed R700 per month — or R8,400 per year. "The Western Cape storms reminded South Africans that insurance as a whole needs regular attention," said a spokesperson for Compare Car Insurance. "What surprised many was that the easiest saving wasn't on their home policy — it was on the car insurance that had been running on auto-pilot for five years." "Loyalty is not rewarded in South African car insurance. Insurers compete hardest for new customers, not existing ones. A policy that was priced competitively in 2021 is almost certainly not competitive today — and switching costs nothing." Under South African law, car insurance policies are month-to-month contracts. There is no exit fee, no penalty, and no requirement to wait until renewal. One calendar month's written notice to the existing insurer is all that is required — and a no-claims discount certificate carries accumulated claims-free history across to the new policy. Compare Car Insurance, which connects SA drivers with six …
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In a recent drive to improve communications with prospective clients, Compare Car Insurance has taken the decision to implement a few changes to it's website. Whilst these updates may seem simple and obvious, they are fundamental improvements to the customer journey and will enable a caller to speak with a call operative in their preferred native language. It can be very difficult to fully engage with a client and understand their insurance needs if they are forced to speak a language that they are not 100% comfortable with. Many clients become frustrated when they are automatically forced into an initial sales funnel that attempts to determine both language and gender. It's for this reason that Compare Car Insurance has decided to better serve our customer by giving them the option of selecting in which language the call centre sales representative first speaks to them. A secondary gender selector further enables the system to select which companies are going to be the best fit. If for example you are a female, then the First For Women insurance products are a most likely fit and the quoting process is going to be tailored to suit your female profile. First For Women have invested a great deal of expertise in tailoring insurance products that are more affordable for it's clientele and Compare Car Insurance is able to streamline this initial contact process by matching clients to appropriate insurance products. Compare Car Insurance is committed to bringing you multiple quotes from only the best South African insurance companies. Expect these and other beneficial product and quoting improvement in the future. CLICK HERE to submit your press release to MyPR.co.za. More Info on Compare Car Insurance For You here: https://www.comparecarinsurance.co.za/contact-us/ …
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Auto Agent Strengthens Position in Used Car Sales Solutions
Auto Agent, the maker of brilliant car dealer websites in South Africa has partnered with a leading car sales website. This partnership enables car dealers to push their vehicle stock to multiple platforms from their own dealer site. Car dealer website company Auto Agent celebrates it's sixth year of serving South African car dealerships with high quality websites. From it's outset, the goal was to optimise dealer sites for mobile audiences by providing mobile friendly navigation as standard across it's customer interfaces. Used car dealers responded positively to the Auto Agent sales platform with it's mobile friendly navigation and easy to use administration, catering for the website stock management, 3rd party advertising, promotions and staff management. Leads management that features SMS notification, email and database storage that can be output as XLS spreadsheets for later analysis. Most recently, Auto Agent has partnered with cars.co.za (and previously with olx.co.za) to facilitate a streamlined inventory upload across multiple selling platforms. This means that dealers now have 3 powerful sales platforms from which they can generate sales leads: pickacar.co.za, usedcarsforsale.co.za and the recent addition of cars.co.za. This has been one of the strengths behind the Auto Agent platform as it frees the dealer from having to manually load his vehicle stock across multiple car selling sites. Auto Agent is particularly excited to offer Cars.co.za on it's platform as they have become a major player in the online used car sales space. Back in 2011, founder Pierre Theron saw that the used car dealerships were not well served and that many home grown solutions and DIY dealer sites simply generated more admin for car dealerships. Apart from loading to the 3rd party automotive sales websites, car dealers were burdened by having to load to their own websites too, with little benefit. The Auto Agent catchphrase "load once" was coined and dealers were now …
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Pick a Car Hires Expert to Help with the Car Buying Process
Purchasing a car can be a difficult experience, especially for those who do not know which type of car will fit the best with their lifestyle. This is especially true when searching for used vehicles, since dealers offer so many different makes and models. Those who head to a dealership without a clear idea of what they want can quickly find themselves looking at a vehicle that does not suit them, all thanks to a fast-talking salesperson who is only interested in his commission check. The Pick a Car network is now trying to take the guesswork out of this process with its latest offering for customers. Those who visit the website will now have access to professionally written reviews that outline the basic features of many vehicles found in the network and inform customers about what type of person the vehicle suits. The Pick a Car website is well known because of the volume of cars found, but it is now offering added value for its loyal customers. Those who visit the website will now be treated to reviews written by Shaun Jooste of Rocking Cars, which is sure to help them select a car that is right for them. Throughout this process, Jooste has been taking the cars that are available for purchase on www.pickacar.co.za for test drives. While on the test drive, he has taken pictures of the vehicle and added some additional notes to these pictures. The purpose is not to give a complete review of each individual car, since those are already available online, but rather to speak directly to each individual car buyer with an overview of the car. Jooste wants to show people what each car that is available on the website can do and whom it suits the best. For example, buyers with a larger family obviously would not purchase a small sports car, but they might have interest in a van. These reviews will show these families the features that make each van worth buying and why it might be right for their family needs. So many people are uneducated when it comes …