RS Clio 172
Far from it when it went from £1800 to that.
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Insurance thread for young 1*2 owners
- Thread starter The Boosh!
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Far from it when it went from £1800 to that.
R34 GT-R & 172 Cup
Im getting scared now, mine is up next month paid 1,500 now i cant get a quote below 2k. Think i will be walking soon.
RS Clio 172
Same trouble I've had but I'm selling up for a change now anyway for something that will give me some money to play with.
Clio 197 RB
I think im still classed as a young driver being 23, but not as young as some of you!
Looking to replace my R26 with a clio 182, so ive done a few insurance quote checks!
got the usual rubbish from go compare and compare the market, cheapest in the region of £2,500!
So i checked sites independently and managed to get a nice quote from Tesco at £1529, then it asked me to try the Value insurance, again it goes down to £1356, then after looking through this thread found that by adding a family member will reduce it again!
It did, I added my mum who has a clean licence, it dropped again to £1072! Im liking that alot!
But i though if i add my dad it should drop again! Wrong!! It went back up to £1345.???
Suppose Female Drivers are safer???
The search continues, would really like to break the £1000 really
Looking to replace my R26 with a clio 182, so ive done a few insurance quote checks!
got the usual rubbish from go compare and compare the market, cheapest in the region of £2,500!
So i checked sites independently and managed to get a nice quote from Tesco at £1529, then it asked me to try the Value insurance, again it goes down to £1356, then after looking through this thread found that by adding a family member will reduce it again!
It did, I added my mum who has a clean licence, it dropped again to £1072! Im liking that alot!
But i though if i add my dad it should drop again! Wrong!! It went back up to £1345.???
Suppose Female Drivers are safer???
The search continues, would really like to break the £1000 really
MK5 R32
Try Greenlight Insurance mate, when I was 24 with 2yrs ncb on a 182 it was around £800 fully comp 
I dont understand how so many people are suffering! :S
I did a quote the other week (just before ordering the 200) and mine has gone down... And to insure the 200 is about £900, £300 less than what im paying for my 172. I even get a refund for swapping to a 200 (as in December when the 200 arrives, ill still have 3 months left on the policy).
Its wierd how everyones seems to be going up, but mine seems to be dropping. (Come March time, ill probably be complaining that insurance has gone right up lol, and my quotes are totally different lol)
I did a quote the other week (just before ordering the 200) and mine has gone down... And to insure the 200 is about £900, £300 less than what im paying for my 172. I even get a refund for swapping to a 200 (as in December when the 200 arrives, ill still have 3 months left on the policy).
Its wierd how everyones seems to be going up, but mine seems to be dropping. (Come March time, ill probably be complaining that insurance has gone right up lol, and my quotes are totally different lol)
SC03OTT
ClioSport Club Member
Octavia vRS
I did a wee experimental quote and it came out cheaper that what I'm paying now. I'm hoping to dip under £400 come renewal.
jenic
ClioSport Club Member
I'm down to £1k now with flux. A new company they are working with apparently.
Thats TPFT again
Unlimited mileage, legal cover, personal cover, key cover as standard. Unlimited non-power increasing mods, power increasing mods looked at on an individual basis.
I know flux arent that highly regarded but its saving me £500 over the next best quote, be stupid not to snap their hand off!
Thats TPFT again
Unlimited mileage, legal cover, personal cover, key cover as standard. Unlimited non-power increasing mods, power increasing mods looked at on an individual basis.
I know flux arent that highly regarded but its saving me £500 over the next best quote, be stupid not to snap their hand off!
jenic
ClioSport Club Member
I'm down to £1k now with flux. A new company they are working with apparently.
Thats TPFT again
Unlimited mileage, legal cover, personal cover, key cover as standard. Unlimited non-power increasing mods, power increasing mods looked at on an individual basis.
I know flux arent that highly regarded but its saving me £500 over the next best quote, be stupid not to snap their hand off!
Just to continue...
Rang to buy this today, got through and was told the prices had changed and it has gone up £200. Now I specifically asked the first time if it was valid up until my renewal and was told yes, i'd have bought it there and then had it not been.
I argued for about 10 minutes and she insisted she could not do anything. So asked to speak to the supervisor (who was in a meeting, they always seem to be in meetings
). She came back and said I've had a chat with my supervisor, we can do the original price through a different company on the same identical terms. Went over the bits I was bothered about to check they were the same and bought it.So, not the best start really with their cheeky manoeuvre to charge more money but its sorted now at least. Hopefully its the last I'll be speaking to them until renewal.
jenic
ClioSport Club Member
Yep, 20/2ncb
It would be a fair bit cheaper if i waited until my 21st in December but I dont want to have to go carless until then.
Clio 182
I have a 182FF
I am 22 I pay £915 Fully Comp with all the extras apart from breakdown
This is with Adrian Flux
I have 4ncb and no current points, did have a TS20 but that is gone (still declared)
This may seem cheap but I was paying £870 fully comp on a TT 225 when I was 21 and £785 on a 530d when I was 20
I am 22 I pay £915 Fully Comp with all the extras apart from breakdown
This is with Adrian Flux
I have 4ncb and no current points, did have a TS20 but that is gone (still declared)
This may seem cheap but I was paying £870 fully comp on a TT 225 when I was 21 and £785 on a 530d when I was 20
Just to continue...
Rang to buy this today, got through and was told the prices had changed and it has gone up £200. Now I specifically asked the first time if it was valid up until my renewal and was told yes, i'd have bought it there and then had it not been.
I argued for about 10 minutes and she insisted she could not do anything. So asked to speak to the supervisor (who was in a meeting, they always seem to be in meetings
So, not the best start really with their cheeky manoeuvre to charge more money but its sorted now at least. Hopefully its the last I'll be speaking to them until renewal.
TPFT is madness dude.
Trust me, I know from experience. I'll never go anything other than FC again.
The Boosh!
ClioSport Admin
Elise, Duster
Even though Jenic's car is worth about 30p Dan?
jenic
ClioSport Club Member
Its like life imo, the world runs on risk management. In this case I have decided to take th risk rather than the insurance company.
The way I see it is, it would cost me an extra £600 to go FC, plus the excess of £500 if I needed to use it, so £1100 extra for the year (presuming I had only 1 claim). £1100 would fix a fair bit of damage if you know where to go, and if it was written off I could still break a lot of it. If I make £2k breaking whats left, plus the £1100 I have saved, thats £3100 for my car. I only paid £3900 for it, so in reality, i haven't really lost out.
To me insurance is just a necessary evil, i'm paying for a green light on some cop cars anpr, if we didn't have such a claim culture and insurance was optional I wouldn't bother.
There is someone on here that tried to insure their 200 TPFT! Too high value though, ins company refused.
Shut up you *insert non ban worthy insult here*
The Boosh!
ClioSport Admin
Elise, Duster
Tell them you only use it twice a year as the reset of the time it's broke - Should bring your premium well down?
The Chubby Pirate
ClioSport Club Member
Golf R
I have just changed my insurance and it dropped around £500... (i started the policy in April it was circa £1450 F/C)
This was with Bell, i changed to Elephant after finding a quote of £935 (im 24 with no no claims discount)
Scotland seems to be not too bad for insurance if you are over 23, i wont ever pay anymore than £1000 for insurance ever again!
This was with Bell, i changed to Elephant after finding a quote of £935 (im 24 with no no claims discount)
Scotland seems to be not too bad for insurance if you are over 23, i wont ever pay anymore than £1000 for insurance ever again!
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Ignore Babyface. When he reaches an age where he can drive, he'll have to deal with these things.
It is a risk, you're right.
But it wouldn't take much of a crash to write your car off. You'd get a cheque for the value less your excess. Whereas now, you'd have to find the money to fix it if the worst happened. Which can very quickly run into thousands.
But you pay your money and take your risk. Hopefully you'll never be in a situation where it matters.
Plus one on that, Danny. I paid £1400 at one point. Now I'm annoyed if it's over £500
It is a risk, you're right.
But it wouldn't take much of a crash to write your car off. You'd get a cheque for the value less your excess. Whereas now, you'd have to find the money to fix it if the worst happened. Which can very quickly run into thousands.
But you pay your money and take your risk. Hopefully you'll never be in a situation where it matters.
Plus one on that, Danny. I paid £1400 at one point. Now I'm annoyed if it's over £500
jenic
ClioSport Club Member
Exactly, I'll risk it again for another year and hope for the best. Hopefully I'll go FC next year, the only reason I wanted it this year was to make changing cars to something worth more easier.
Forgot to add in the other post, if I crashed rolling it for example, I'd lose my bonus and have a crash on file too with FC, this way I dont. And at my age a few years bonus and clean crash record is worth a fortune. Of course if the crash involved a thrid party that wouldn't count and I'd still be f**ked in future years.
Oh, and the company I work for inures all company cars and vans TPO! A few £million worth of new or nearly new vehicles. Guy at works got stolen the other day, our manager has to cover the cost (£26k) from our departments budget.
Forgot to add in the other post, if I crashed rolling it for example, I'd lose my bonus and have a crash on file too with FC, this way I dont. And at my age a few years bonus and clean crash record is worth a fortune. Of course if the crash involved a thrid party that wouldn't count and I'd still be f**ked in future years.
Oh, and the company I work for inures all company cars and vans TPO! A few £million worth of new or nearly new vehicles. Guy at works got stolen the other day, our manager has to cover the cost (£26k) from our departments budget.
The Chubby Pirate
ClioSport Club Member
Golf R
Ignore Babyface. When he reaches an age where he can drive, he'll have to deal with these things.
It is a risk, you're right.
But it wouldn't take much of a crash to write your car off. You'd get a cheque for the value less your excess. Whereas now, you'd have to find the money to fix it if the worst happened. Which can very quickly run into thousands.
But you pay your money and take your risk. Hopefully you'll never be in a situation where it matters.
Plus one on that, Danny. I paid £1400 at one point. Now I'm annoyed if it's over £500
Ha! I was pretty stupid with regard to the initial policy if im honest, didnt really bother looking/comparing quotes!
TPFT in my opinion is daft on anything worth more than say £2000, is TPFT actually any cheaper? I remember seeing some quotes that were actually dearer TPFT than FC, insurance companies have you by the grapes every which way!
Stealth 438'd 182
21 0NCB 3 points speeding on a motorway been a named driver for 3 years hence the 0ncb :'(
decent-ish b75 postcode, trying to get a quote on a ff 182
cheapest so far has been 2,000 FC 750 excess with admiral with dad on the policy... going to try brentacre tomorrow and tesco
not happy!
you know whats worse... i have just sold my 270 bhp audi S3 and that was 2k to insure as well with admiral !!
decent-ish b75 postcode, trying to get a quote on a ff 182
cheapest so far has been 2,000 FC 750 excess with admiral with dad on the policy... going to try brentacre tomorrow and tesco
not happy!
you know whats worse... i have just sold my 270 bhp audi S3 and that was 2k to insure as well with admiral !!
Holy cow, there's some expensive insurance prices on here! Am 26, paying £358 FC on a 182 with cup packs, with DOC, legal, protected no claims etc etc - and I thought that was a little expensive (having paid similar for my 300hp S14a 2 years ago with Flux..), have always enjoyed pretty cheap insurance due to v good area, never paid over £900. Can't believe how much young persons insurance has rissen, it's scary!
(having paid similar for my 300hp S14a 2 years ago with Flux..), have always enjoyed pretty cheap insurance due to v good area, never paid over £900. Can't believe how much young persons insurance has rissen, it's scary! 
The Boosh!
ClioSport Admin
Elise, Duster
I'm dreading my renewal. No ones premium seems to have gone down.
My premium should go down (although im assuming thats partially because ive changed cars). Renewal is next month.
Paid £1150 last year.
Quotes for a single car policy (im on multicar so should be a bit cheaper) is just above the £900 mark. Hoping to try and get it for around £800.
Still dreading it. Shed load of money to blow!!
Paid £1150 last year.
Quotes for a single car policy (im on multicar so should be a bit cheaper) is just above the £900 mark. Hoping to try and get it for around £800.
Still dreading it. Shed load of money to blow!!
jenic
ClioSport Club Member
HAI
I'm in the £1K and under club now, never plan to leave
I just joined you in the club
. It's nice in here.Got my renewal letter today. Just over £800. Buzzing.
I love the fact that my 172 cost £1170 on insurance and my 200 is going to cost almost £400 less. Im definitely bi-winning today.
How bad is it that im buzzing that I have to fork out, what is still, a ridiculous amount of money to insure a Clio.
Nothing at the mo :(
Give brentacre a try, they are pretty impressive
172 CUP
not trying to sound like a d*ck but i think some of you are lying about the prices your getting (the young drivers) some of you say your 19 or 20 with either 0 or 1 year ncb and your apparently getting quotes of 1100 or 1300.
I'm 21 with 3 years driving and 3 years ncb and 0 points, I've tried numerous amounts of companies with my mum as a named driver and I cant get anything cheaper than £2500 so how the hell are you lot getting these quotes?
I'm 21 with 3 years driving and 3 years ncb and 0 points, I've tried numerous amounts of companies with my mum as a named driver and I cant get anything cheaper than £2500 so how the hell are you lot getting these quotes?
jenic
ClioSport Club Member
You got me, I thought I'd come on a public forum full of people I dont know and lie about my insurance price.
Can I be forgiven?
Seriously though, have you tried the advice in this thread. Like calling the specialists rather than just doing online quotes?
