Just been messing around with First Alternative's online quote thing for car insurance, for me in my Dad's Rover 75 CDT.
They quoted... wait for it... 4800 POUNDS! Record there, I think. Will carry on being a named driver for some time to come!
Particularly galling as I read in the local paper a while back the court reports, and countless people being fined 50 pounds-ish for having now tax, insurance, MOT, or license.
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Thats impresive when i passed my test i was quoted 2750 for a 16 year old 1.3 basic spec golf.
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Temporarily not a student, where did the time go???
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£8,200 for a Maserati Quattroporte 1999 model.
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I seem to recall on TG that in the 80's, JC had a insurance quote for his Escort RS Cosworth of £24,000 - more than the car was worth.
I wonder how much the insurance on the Veyron is?
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i think they are giving you a sublime message there my son ;-)
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i think they are giving you a sublime message there my son ;-)
to david horn :(
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Only 5 grand? Lloyds quoted me 7,500 to insure my Fiesta!
Oh how I laughed.
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I'm trying desparately to remember who it was, but about four years ago I was trying to beat £465 or so for a quote. One company quoted me £3850 or something (on a car worth about £3500), and then the operator kept trying to sell it to me!! She insisted that the cover was great, I would get a guaranteed courtesy car and so on. She just didn't seem to understand that she was off the pace by about the value of my car!
I just hung up in the end, they still sent through the quote in the post tho.
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Gordon
You've got to give her 10/10 for trying (very trying)
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Only 5 grand? Lloyds quoted me 7,500 to insure my Fiesta!
You should have told them you were going to drive it not sail it! Lloyds, geddit?
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L\'escargot.
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just been quoted £4982.74 TPF&T for the 1993 1.4LS Astra!!!! Seems having a 17 year old additional driver with a provisional licence isn't a good risk.....
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I am just having this problem with my 17 year old son who has a provisional licence and is looking to take lessons, Direct Line would not quote to add him to my policy ( Xantia HDI 90 X reg) and Norwich Union quoted me 783 pounds which is an extra 500 pounds more than just for me and wife as a named driver, also with a stipulation that it was for " a couple hours practise a week". Is this amount the sort of going rate for any vehicle, if so I wonder how any 17 year olds manage to practise on the road.
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I'm 18, and TPFT on Egg for.... £1672... on a '96 Rover 214i
That was the cheapest I could find :(
On my Dad's R75 1.8 Club SE its £2550 tpft
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In July 2002 I checked insurance for my then 29 year old wife before buying a very tidy 1996 Peugeot 406 2 litre GLX that a colleague was selling before moving to an assignment in the Middle East.
With Czech licence for ten years, claim free in all that time, two years driving in the UK as a visitor, and holder of a UK licence for five months since breezing through her test, not a single company would touch her with a barge pole. They wouldn't even quote, and that she drives with superb roadcraft and intelligence of course counted for nowt.
We then purchased thirty two and a half grand's worth of turbocharged Volvo V70 and the effect of adding her as a 50:50 named driver to the insurance was virtually zip! Absolutely no problem at all and a few tenners on the premium.
It takes all sorts to make liquorice, that's for sure.
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Aston, that sounds like an excellent quote. I was 29 years old, 5 years no claims on a t reg Xsara and was paying £470. Companies don't like young drivers full stop I think.
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