I had been with the same insurance company for years, but then they started to really get on my nerves. My rates went way up for something that wasn’t my fault. I realized that I needed to change auto insurance companies. I wasn’t really sure where to start looking, so the first thing that I did was to ask around. I have a lot of friends and they were all happy to give me their opinions. I took all the information and wrote it down, and then I started to contact the companies directly. I was a little bit nervous but I soon got a really good deal.