***Feedback about the special Chris Knott Car Club scheme***

Hi,

Our single biggest source of business by a long way is personal recommendation. It's great to know that you're telling others when we've given good prices and service. Thank you!

Here's all the feedback about Chris Knott that people left for other members to read on forums and social media JUST LAST MONTH (there's a lot of positive feeling out there, for which we're grateful):

"Another year with you guys. Thanks for your continued support to us owners with lots of modifications" dawesy, MR2OC

"My current insurer on the 210 did a deal but Chris Knott beat that so I'm happy." toby1, Mercedes-Benz Owner forum

"I usually don't move insurance companies often but over time, my quotes for renewal start to rise despite no incidents, convictions etc. I called CKI today for quotation for insurance on all my cars as mine is due tomorrow. CKI were much more efficient with the modifications and the telephone manner was pleasant as with most other companies I've dealt with. CKI beat the renewal quotes on the cars by almost £100 on each car (and £15 on the S70R) first time. This is after the existing insurer considerably bettered their renewal rates. Lets hope CKI keep doing good work with sensible quotes for years to come." DSK, Volvo Owners Forum

"I switched the S60R to CK this week under the VOC scheme. Very good price, helpful guy on the phone too (thanks Ian Willis)." Yosser, Volvo Owners Forum

"I rang around this time for insurance and all in all Chris Knotts provided me with the lowest quote without sacrificing cover. I renewed all my cars (as they are all co-termed for my ease to the distress of my wallet) with Chris Knotts for the next 12 months yesterday. My experience with the 2 ladies (Tabitha & Cathy) I dealt with was a good one as far as customer service goes. Friendly and straight forward talking when needed and going through the modifications was painless." DSK, Volvo Owners Forum

"Just received a quote from Kim who was accommodating and helpful. She also applied the AO owners club discount and this was very competitive. Highly recommended!" TheToon, AlfaOwner.com

"BEEN WITH G********* FOR FOUR YEARS AND YOU BEAT MY RENEWAL BY £70 A GREAT SAVING" gazza172, FocusSTOC

"Didn't mention it back in May when I renewed the C5, with declared tuning as before, and again got unbeatable rate. Short while later came time for house insurance, and couldn't be arsed like before to go chasing all over the World, so thought "What the heck" & gave CK a try. House & contents now covered via their policy and a saving of 80 quid, to boot. Result .... one chuffed Wrinkly." The Wrinkly Ninja, Citroen Xsara OC

"Been insured by Chris Knott on either mine or my wifes car for the last 6-7 years and I've just bought a mk4 GTi and switched my insurance across at a great price. Great stuff cheers!" isitafox, UK-MkIVs

"Just renewed for another year. Great price & friendly service. Happy days." stuMR2eye, MR2 Owners Club

"I moved to Chris Knott when my insurers of over twenty years flatly refused to add my daughter as a named driver, as she had only just passed her test. CK was most informative and helpful, so I have just renewed with them this year, and will continue to do so." acrorat, Nissan Juke Owners Club

"I've a 2011 Audi RS3 (was RAC) and 2010 Audi TT roadster (was SAGA) and transferred both to these guys. I had no issues with communication and or the quotes both of which were accepted. Next year I'll be giving them a chance to quote on our A2 (currently A***** F*** who was way £££s over with the RS3) as well... And no, I don't know 'em or have anything to do with 'em other than they provide my 2015/16 insurance." 45bvtc, Audi-Sport forum

"After a break of around 18 months, I'm back with Chris Knott. Competitive quote, friendly staff (Kim and Cathy)." RainbowFire, Briskoda

"Took out a policy with them myself just the other day after discovering H******* wouldn't insure a modified Fabia. Great service." Lee01, Briskoda

"Chris Knott Insurance just beat my car insurance renewal by £390 and my next best quote by £132! And all in 10 minutes. Big thank you to Ian for sorting it all out for me and walking me through the cover. Really friendly and knew what he was talking about. Would definitely recommend." Lauren Bvb Woodfine, Facebook

“Gave me an excellent price thanks guys.” Grant2015vxr, *****

“I really like chris knott insurance, excellent service, always ring for a quote and you guys are always the cheapest.” Naeem Arshad, Peugeot GTi-6 & Rallye OC

"You guys beat S**'s renewal premium by £104 which they couldn't match or even beat despite their policy 'we'll beat any quote like for like and refund the difference'. Anyway thanks to Kathy at Chris Knott Insurance." kish, CRX-UK

"Just had great service from Chris Knott Insurance. Very informative, great level of cover. Best price for my circumstances. Thanks Tabatha" Oliver O'Brien, FocusSTOC

"Never insured my own car before (always been on my wife's policy). I asked Chris Knott to beat my quote of £318 and they did £285 including admin. I had high hopes for AXXXXX FXXX but they were just about twice as much. Cheers CK" insx, MR2 Roadster OC

"Once again it's renewal time. Having searched for someone to cover a fully wrapped car, Chris Knott found me an insurer who was willing to match another quote from a different broker (shame I now have to wait a month for the wrap to happen). A big thanks to Nick and Dawn who made me a happy camper (I really hate moving my insurers/brokers so this was why I'm happy)." tempra007, Briskoda

"Well, never used you for the vxr, kinda forgot about the renewal for that so just stuck with **********, but just took another policy out with you guys for a 2nd car, and can't fault you, met and beat the comparison quote which even A***** F*** couldn't get near. You guys were my last option, and the lass I spoke 2 on the phone was great, couldn't have asked for better service." BigDov, *****

"Hi, rang company I'm with. after two calls and half an hour on the phone couldn't give me a quote - too many mods. had to cancel insurance - cost me £90. rang up Chris Knott told them all the mods. after 5 minutes no problem got a good quote so now I'm insured with them. Brilliant service. Thanks." paulmow, Vectra-C/Signum OC

"a big thanks to nick and ian for getting the insurance that most would not help with for the daughter and son in law. talked to nick via the forum email then rang and talked to Ian both very helpfull." bugsb, MG-Rover forum

"Bit of feedack from a new customer. Was quoted £80 less than my current insurer (1st Central) which i'm delighted about, the lady I spoke to on the phone was really helpful too. Recommended!" DaleM, R32 OC

"I can whole-heartedly recommend Chris Knott (also a sponsor), got 2/3 of the household cars with them now (Standard Octavia Scout and a Nissan 100NX) The Scout was £280 and the NX £230somthing. The NX was done in one call (giving all the details etc), the Scout then followed......"oh yes, we've got all your details here".....done in less than 5 minutes." RainbowFire, Briskoda

"Just wanted to say that Cathy from Chris Knotts was fantastic! It's the first time I have ever bought or got a quote from Chris Knotts and dealing with them and Cathy has been great. In fact I brought another car to them and I think I will also get my other car and house insurance from them. Very impressed. " gstraw, 350z-uk.com

If you'd like a car insurance quote please call us FREE on 0800 917 2274 - which is now also FREE for mobiles - and mention this club/forum.

best,
Nick
Chris Knott Insurance

I've got a 2011 sports tourer and my rear drivers side brake light has an error. If I remove the light and move the wires it works again. Looking to replace the wiring but it's all one unit at £56 just for that... anyone know of a common fault/fix for this? Could just change the whole light.

i did the free windows 10 update last night
wow what a job that was and not that easy to do
the problem was the macfee or any third party security software
will clash with the new firewall on windows 10
they now claim there firewall is the best and will not be compatible
with any other 3rd party security and they are no longer needed in windows 10
so if you try to download it with your third party security still on
you will have to force a re boot
but this makes windows 10 very slow and also it will give errors as they both clash
so after removing macfee or any third party security and the BT home hub app for some reason
everything now seems fine and much faster and all is now ok with windows 10
it is still a bit slow on start up but other wise now seems ok
coming from windows 7 as i resisted windows 8 for so long
but now its time to catch up with this free new update.
more updates for windows 10 are on the way also to fix any other bugs I believe

anyone else had any problems with it
that is if you have done it or even want it lol.

Hi guys,
Wondering if anyone can answer a question for me; I drive an Astra GTC with a CD400 Plus unit, I use the USB to listen to music on my phone so I can also use the multifunction controls on the steering wheel to swap songs safely and easily, however, I recently swapped my phone from an iPhone 5 to a Samsung Galaxy S5 and it no longer picks up the phone through the USB. Any advice on how I can sort this?

I've got the chance of buying a 2012 astra Bluetooth unit but wondered if I can fit it to my 2011 tourer or would it all need to be recoded? I've rang a guy about it locally but he didn't know lol.

Hi guys,

A year or so ago I had a 1.7 CDTI J which occasionally at low speeds you'd hear a fluttery noise when you lifted of, I never had the cad long so didn't worry. It was a 73k car.

I now have a car with the same engine (125bhp) and its doing it all the time, I can drive along at 60 & if you listen carefully and take your foot off the accelerator it will flutter. I'm now panicking the turbo is on its way out (112k) - anyone else get this noise? I'm wondering whether to chop it in before it's too late.

Help?

Would I be wrong to assume that all that would be needed for this is the window sensor, the windscreen and VCI coding to get this working?

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Well considering i've been on this forum since February and have made a few changes to the Astra, i thought it time to do a progress thread. I don't have photos for everything but for what i do, i'll post here.

So 2015 came and i'd grown tired of my old car, so after 4yrs of ownership and 50k miles i wanted a change so the hunt began. At first i'd settled on a 1.6 Titanium X Focus, however the price tag meant that it just wasn't feasible at that time so i started looking elsewhere for something slightly cheaper. This brought me onto the Astra, and me being a fan of Vauxhall wasn't put off by this at all.

I came across a red SRI on Autotrader that was supposedly at my local dealer (Burton). When i got there i was told that it was in Oldham and i couldn't reserve it due to a customer going to look at it that day. The dealer offered be an alternative. It was 6months newer but had 10k miles more for the same price but in silver. The catch was the car was in Nottingham and there were no pictures of it. So against my better judgement i put a £250 deposit down and the car would be brought across to me.

On the 14/02/15 the car landed at the dealer and i immediately knew it was the car for me. Looking around it i clocked that it had a few extra's on it. They were:

19" Wheels in Anthracite
Front and rear mudflaps
Aluminium door pins
Aluminium pedals
Power fold mirrors
Tinted rear windows
Parking sensors front and back

Given that there was some damage to it, the dealer agreed to rectify it all. As the car had a private plate on, i had to wait for the replacement log book to arrive before i could take ownership. This is where all the hassle began, which resulted in me not collecting the vehicle until the 14/03/15.

Anyway, pictures:

My old car - 2007 Ford Focus 18TDCI Sport S



And my Astra when it arrived at the dealer (including the damage)




So Feb 14th came, and after a long wait, i took collection. I also moved house the following month, so it was a busy few weeks all round. He she is at the old mans house and somewhat and cleaner (To dealership standards anyway   )



So as with any new car, you always get the mod bug and the cleaning bug. Seeing as this had a couple of mods on to appease me for the time being, i started doing little things.

22/03/15 - Auto Dim mirror. I had one in my last car, and the last 3 cars before that. I love them and think they're a fantastic idea. Even with tinted windows, its a fantastic addition. (photo's are from present day a i didn't have any from when this was done).




05/04/15 - Flying the club flag



09/04/15 - Next on my list was LED ambient lighting for the front door cards. Again with the help of the sites How to guide i was happy with the outcome, not to mention they were free courtesy of my free parts voucher from Vauxhall Trade club.




09/04/15 - The biggest thing i missed was a BT kit. I had a Parrot in my Focus, but i didn't want an add on in the Astra and wanted to have it all looking as OEM as possible. After some research i settled on a kit from Ray Smith. I fit it, and promptly removed it as the kit itself was shocking. Fortunately the the customer service from Ray Smith was excellent (no pictures of this). So now the only route i'm prepared to go down is the Vauxhall route which will be done soon.

To make myself feel better for the BT incident, i fit LED interior lights




10/04/2015 - This seemed to be a good week for tinkering. You can tell i had a couple of days off work lol. With the help of Tucpals how to guide, i fitted LED DRL's. Now usually i steer away from electrics as they're not my strongest but i thought why not. Very happy with the outcome!



18/04/15 - Time to get some wind deflectors. I've always wanted some so when they came up for a good price on Facebook i thought why not



For a couple of months, not alot happened apart from a snow foam and good scrub



07/08/15 - After much frustration (as documented on here) i finally got DAB programmed and working. I've always wanted DAB especially for the mileage i do, so when Russell was selling his roof aerial a month prior, i knew it was time to  do the retrofit. So the aerial was fitted, cabling ran, and it was eventually programme.





So thats it for now. Not the most exhaustive list or the biggest mods, but they'll do for now. Next on my list will be heated seats and OEM BT.

Hi guys, I'm back on the VX scene after 4 years with the Type R... Invested in an Olympic White GTC VXR... and what a machine it is..