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Insurance!! Extremely Expensive!!



Wow.

Save the 3k (1.2 standard car will be around 1k to insure). In one year, when your insurance has come down, spend the 3k saved on a better car. Your first car is to crash and make mistakes in. What happens when you bump that car, which is currently your pride and joy?
 
  Italian 3.2 V6
sell the car. buy a cheap n decent standard ph1 172 n insure that instead. £4k n what u earn for selling your current car should cover the costs.
 
I must have missed where you've provided advice?

If he insures this car for 4k and bumps it, repairs it, tries to reinsure it next year, the price will have gone up... from 4k...

An unmolested, same spec car will cost less to insure first time around, so second time, after the inevitable bump, will be as palatable...
 

Greeny.

ClioSport Club Member
  440i + 182
Your bound to make mistakes when you start driving so the likelyhood of crashing in the first 6 months or whatever is some what increased. I know I did, although was fairly minor but glad I was only driving around in a shed.
 
I must have missed where you've provided advice?

If he insures this car for 4k and bumps it, repairs it, tries to reinsure it next year, the price will have gone up... from 4k...

An unmolested, same spec car will cost less to insure first time around, so second time, after the inevitable bump, will be as palatable...
Your first car isn't for crashing.
 
  Monaco 172 + mk1 RSi
First time driver and modded do not mix

Also I think it's a mixture of luck and your postcode tbh, ring round tho, comparison websites add money on no matter what anyone says ;)

Jamie
 
  Italian 3.2 V6
His car is worth £400. It's a 1.2. Insurance want £4000. How on earth will he insure a 172?

its £4k because of all the mods n s**t he's done to it. i got insured on my 1st car which was a ph2 172 for £2k. so i dont see why not!? even if he bought one for just over £1k he still got another £3.5k to insure it. ino what id rather do out of the two options as he obv doesnt want another slow car.
 
I was crashed into twice by those you've aptly described as "mongs". Had I had a very expensive car, I would not be able to afford the car I have now as the insurance would have raped me.
 
its £4k because of all the mods n s**t he's done to it. i got insured on my 1st car which was a ph2 172 for £2k. so i dont see why not!? even if he bought one for just over £1k he still got another £3.5k to insure it. ino what id rather do out of the two options as he obv doesnt want another slow car.
If it wasn't modded it would still be around £2k or more. For first time drivers, these days, it really is ridiculous.
 
Precisely. I'm not sure how telling anyone that 'a first car is to crash' is good advice.

Christ, you really are quite the numpty.

Use Google to search for the percentage of first year drivers that crash or are crashed into. Might make you wake up about the point I am trying to make.

You are still learning in your first car. You will make a mistake, regardless of how you drive, as you have no experience. Is that better, or would you like a pretty drawing?
 
Christ, you really are quite the numpty.

Use Google to search for the percentage of first year drivers that crash or are crashed into. Might make you wake up about the point I am trying to make.

You are still learning in your first car. You will make a mistake, regardless of how you drive, as you have no experience. Is that better, or would you like a pretty drawing?

This. I saved up for my 1st car, even though it was a shed I wasn't planning to crash it in any way.



I was crashed into twice by those you've aptly described as "mongs". Had I had a very expensive car, I would not be able to afford the car I have now as the insurance would have raped me.
He doesn't have a very expensive car though. And you were telling him that the purpose of his car was to crash, not be crashed into. Failing to see any point to this conversation here, or how I'm the numpty when I'm saying be careful to bring premiums down, and you're saying crash :S
 
  Jap Box
Foook £4000??

Mines £1800 fully comp with alloys and lowering springs added to the policy!

I can get insured on a 172 for just short of £3000 so your going wrong somewhere
 
Just as a rough idea, my first car was a 2003 Clio 1.2. Lowered, full Renaultsport body kit, Xenons, spoiler, alloys and it was £1600 fully comp. in the worst catagory postcode there is. That was using a specialist company, which was Adrian Flux. Give them a try on a modofied policy and it should be a lot cheaper than you're being quoted.
 

RDH

ClioSport Club Member
I got insured when I was 19 with 2 years NCB on a 1.2 for 700 quid, in the second to worst postcode.

Getting quotes next year on insurance group 16 - 18 cars, 20 years old with 3 years no claims and they are coming in at around the 1000 mark.

Buy something cheap, get your experience up and your premiums will come down.
 
  Jap Box
They are a modification, so aye. I mean the full light unit/clusters.

Ohh right, havent delcared that on mine as I didnt think it would really make a difference :S can always take a hammer to them incase of a smash
 
  Clio 1.6 16v
Christ i think my insurance at 1.4k at 18 for a 1.6 16v clio is amazing now!

Everybody is paying really rediculous premiums!

I can insure a supra for 4k!
 
  Jap Box
Obviously I'm not stupid enough to pay that. But they were brand new in the Renault boxes from the factory. :)

Fell off the lorry? :rasp:

Oh yeah these lights were only £50 anyway so its no diff to me really if they get smashed.
 
  172 cup
FLOL @ "the money isnt the issue" if 4k insurance isnt something to worry about then go get yourself a sport lol.....
 
  260% JCW
Just as a rough idea, my first car was a 2003 Clio 1.2. Lowered, full Renaultsport body kit, Xenons, spoiler, alloys and it was £1600 fully comp. in the worst catagory postcode there is. That was using a specialist company, which was Adrian Flux. Give them a try on a modofied policy and it should be a lot cheaper than you're being quoted.

1600 quid is still a joke and your a mug to pay that. My first car was a 1.3 fiesta. No mods apart from an airfreshener, 650 quid with my old man on the policy, kept it for a year and a bit then got something quicker, Fiesta Zs then did the same ect ect. Thats how it should be done, gradually work your way up the ladder. Not try and jump in half way with a super duper Lambo clio, thats worth f**k all and looks s**t. And then piss and moan about insurance costs.
 
  mx5 & 172
4k?
Bugger that for a laugh. There's no way on earth I'd pay over a grand to insure a car that didnt get to 60 in under 5 seconds or cost me less than 10k to buy, let alone 4k on a 15 year old french shitbox.

it didnt occur to you to check this before commencing the project then ?
 
  Megane 225 F1
£600 last year for the 1.4 with all mods.
£900 this year for the 2.0 with all mods.

They wanted me to pay £1900 for renewal. f**k you b**ch!
 


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