Car insurance and credit reports...

[Audax]

So, having looked at my neighbours 9-3 the other day which is currently for sale (2.8 V6 turbo) I thought I'd get some quotes for insurance on it using a comparison site just to see what the real running costs would be as I might be able to pick it up cheap in a couple of months.

Anyhow, at the moment I'm using a free trial of credit expert from Experian as I wanted to check my credit report... turns out I now have 2 credit searches on file one from RSA and one from the AA! That was just to get a quote via a comparison site, bit annoyed thinking about it as I was thinking about applying for some credit soon and apparently lots of searches on your file isn't good. 

[Audax]

Hmmn, now I look into it in more detail it says insurance searches are not shared? but then the ones from RSA don't say they were for insurance.

[jmblack]

These are low level checks only visible to you not potential lenders etc.

[Audax]

These are low level checks only visible to you not potential lenders etc.

Didn't help that Experian sent me an email telling me that there may be a problem there's been loads of checks on my credit file in the past couple of days blah blah... then you dig and find out it's not a problem.