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I would wait until youre 21 then watch the premium half.
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Depends on the area big time.
I work for an Insurance company.
Quote: Originally posted by nelson182 on 26 July 2005A lot of guys on here go with places like admiral and elephant that tend to give moderate quotes for young drivers. Give them a try, and put low risk drivers as yournamed drivers. You should get quote down to nearly £1000 i reckon
and we will report you for fraud
if you put anyone else but you as main driver
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Quote: Originally posted by McBunny on 26 July 2005
Quote: Originally posted by nelson182 on 26 July 2005A lot of guys on here go with places like admiral and elephant that tend to give moderate quotes for young drivers. Give them a try, and put low risk drivers as yournamed drivers. You should get quote down to nearly £1000 i reckon
and we will report you for fraud
if you put anyone else but you as main driverNothing wrong with that, its what I have done, as long as the named drivers actually drive the car at some point
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I didnt mean get insured on your parents policy and then you be the main driver i meant, get insure in your own name for wahtever quote, and put low risk drivers like your parents on to make it a bit cheaper, plus if they ever did need to borrow the car, the option is there!!Quote: Originally posted by McBunny on 26 July 2005
and we will report you for fraud
Quote: Originally posted by nelson182 on 26 July 2005Quote: Originally posted by McBunny on 26 July 2005Quote: Originally posted by nelson182 on 26 July 2005A lot of guys on here go with places like admiral and elephant that tend to give moderate quotes for young drivers. Give them a try, and put low risk drivers as yournamed drivers. You should get quote down to nearly £1000 i reckon
and we will report you for fraud
if you put anyone else but you as main driverI didnt mean get insured on your parents policy and then you be the main driver i meant, get insure in your own name for wahtever quote, and put low risk drivers like your parents on to make it a bit cheaper, plus if they ever did need to borrow the car, the option is there!!really just wanted to get it out of the way before someone sugested it lol
This might help aswell - mine was £460 fully comp on my 172Quote: Originally posted by KDF on 26 July 2005
If it helps im insured on my 172 for £400 fully comp ??
build up a few more years NCB, dont go givin away your hard earned to these bloody pirates!
Quote: Originally posted by subz on 27 July 2005
That doesnt happen till your 25 im afraid... you will notice no, or very little drop going from 20 to 21.
Well mine dropped nearly £1500 cause Im now 21..........it was £2540 last year (20) and the quote this year is £1057 (21)
Although last year they did say that when insuring a high grouped car that after the 1st year........when you have a history with that car then it would drop big time................although I didnt expect it to drop £1500 eh!
Cya Stu
[Edited by stusV6 on 27 July 2005 at 12:02pm]
im 18 with a 6points. i got a quote of £5800 in my own name. my mate who just wrote off his 182 was 18 with a previous write off and was paying £5300. went through my mum dropped to £2100. im with norich union but went through a broker. keep trying u will eventually get a quote your happy with. if u dont either buy a car with a smaller engine or grin n bear the payments!
First ever post - be kind to me!
Im getting a 172 next week (a 53 plate 172). I currently drive a Dynamic (sp?) 1.6 which I was paying about £500 for (Im 30, full no claims, though I live in North London and have to park in the street - gulp!) with Tescos. They are charging me £60 to change to the 172 and it looks like a full year will cost me about £700 - not bad for London. Anyway, Ive been dealing with the sharks that are insurers for years, as Im sure others here have, so some tips might be:
1. Phone around, and then phone around again, and then again until you are happy! I do this every year and as they usualy want your business you should be able to beat them down a bit. Play the insurance companies off against each other. Its amazing how the phrase "Well I have the Direct Line quote here and its chaper than yours" can save you money.
2. If you are young (or not that young!) have you tried Endsleigh? They specialise in Student insurance and I was with them for a few years. They can be quite cheap.
3. Limit your milage on the policy - not always an easy option but it helps saves pennies...
4. As people have said above, try to include a femail relative/partner as a named driver. Having my girlfirend as a named driver saved me about £60 a year on my insurance and it means she can drive it if she needs to (if I have a few drinks in the pub she can drive home!).
5. Protect your no claims as soon as you can. Costs more but saves you a lot if, like me, you smash up the front of your 6 month old Clio! (I had jet lag...)
Sorry if thats stating the bloody obvious!
Ive been convinced for years that insurance is a cartel - all the companies collude to make prices higher. Me, paranoid?
Insurance is a pig until you hit 25, where it gets a bit better, but when you get to 30 it drops way down (though you do feel very old!). The difference between my 172 quote now and when I was 28 is a few hundred quid (which is why I didnt get the car in the first place!)Anyway, back to my life as a ClioSport lurker...
[Edited by SimonD on 7/29/2005 6:06:18 PM]
Obvious point is to shop around, shop around some more, then start adjusting minute little options in the policy quote, then shop around some more.
I bought my first car above a 1.2 3 months ago (172 Cup), 23 yrs old, 5 yrs NCB, pass-plus. Quotes started off at around the £1300 mark and some were pushing £2k, after lots of work I tried Elephant and got about £750. So then I went to work on their online quote system, adjusting annual mileage (still within my actual yearly mileage), adding various family members as additional drivers etc. Eventually hit the jackpot when I added my 23yr old girlfriend as a second driver, despite having no NCB (she has only just insured her first car, but it doesnt matter) it brought my quote down to £580 or thereabouts, they ask for very few details of additional drivers but what they do ask for matters, she is a teacher and therefore is classed as a professional, and Im sure thats what nailed it for me.
I would always suggest getting insured yourself from day one. Me and my other half are both 23, both had licenses the same amount of time, but she is a professional and lives in a much better area, yet she is paying more than me on an older 1.4 (grp 7 I think) MG ZR. The reason being that she has always been insured on her Mums car as an additional driver before (legally, she never used to drive much) and therefore has no NCB. Its a big big hit to shell out £1000+ every year whilst 18/19/20 etc but it saves hundreds when you get a bit older and want to insure something really insane!
[Edited by ukaskew on 29 July 2005 at 6:24pm]
Do the named people on the policy have to live at the same address?
Im sure i was told this, so you cant put your Aunt Nellie who lives in the back end of bumblefcuk on the policy just to reduce the cost.
I always increase my excess and take off extra crap like guaranteed hire cars to reduce my policy.
The only good thing about being over 30 was the 182 used to cost £385 fully comp.
[Edited by Woof on 7/29/2005 6:46:34 PM]
