porky:
‘…Best way to get “cheap” insurance when young is so called classic insurance…’
‘…I challenge that.
Surely an even better way is to prove that one is a better driver and therefore worthy of a reduced premium is to pass the IAM test, or similar? Blah, drone, preach, etc…’
‘…I am part of IAM and Pass Plus and I can assure you, you’d be lucky if it brought down my insurance £500. I do have a brand new 2011 Astra J 2.0 though…’.
I’m sure your research, circumstance & experience is accurate, Sam, so perhaps we are missing the opportunity to have a better standard of driver to instead have millions hammering/dithering around half educated/trained/aware and hoping they don’t get involved in an accident [sic] or that those with months of research time available might get lucky to find a ‘cheap’ deal that likely as not comes with a zillion caveats whilst adding to both the insurance company’s offshore haul and the Brussels taxation kitty.
I now better understand that the benefits of having an advanced driving qualification may have been diluted financially which just leaves the prospect of ‘being a bit better’ appealing only to those wishing to improve themselves - which, perhaps through practical reasons may have scant general appeal these cash-centric days.
Is the UK rewarding complacency by removing incentives to improve?
That’ll be progress then …but at least we now know that Greece wasn’t checked out as being fit to join the Euro which our leaders also missed because it took a Frenchman (Sarkozy) to point out the obvious
congrats mate on passing
my boy has recently passed, and loves the freedom he now has in his little corsa, even though he managed to reverse into a post on the 2nd week, (despite what i said about always concentrating)
have you got a car of your own, and if you have, out of interest, how much is your insurance?
Well I’m a qualified instructor and thats why I’ve put teaching on the back burner, the youngsters who are most of the “market” have been priced out of learning to drive.
P.S:- I use the word youngsters as term of endearment as opposed to old ■■■■ like myself.
mickyblue:
i have been told by a few 17 years that they are paying nearly £1500 on a 1.2L engine
try doubling it, and adding a little bit more.
i was horrified at what my son ended up paying, for a 1.0 corsa.
i know he is in the highest risk category, but 3.5k seemed a tad ridiculous.
i tried every trick in the book when looking for quotes, but it just seems to be madness at the moment.
A mate of mine was quoted £5000 for a fiesta 1.2l, the insurance agent tod him that the cheapest cars to insure are skoda fabias. Not a cool car as the youngsters would say but wen it saves them a bundle id go for it.
