chris-suffolk
Senior Member
How much is the Passat? - I've got one of those and it's £230 for the year - so your other car is up at about £1000 - ouch!!
Insurance renewal.
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How much is the Passat? - I've got one of those and it's £230 for the year - so your other car is up at about £1000 - ouch!!
Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
- Location
- Plymouth
Nope, I have a claim and it's £540 for the year. My partner is also on it and she has points for speeding. Her Captur is a little cheaper but still 400 and something for us both
johnblack
Über Member
- Location
- South Northamptonshire
Over the past six years mine has been £251, £255, £209, £200, £187 & £209 for a RS Megane 265. This year was the only time that staying with my existing insurer was cheaper than the price comparison sites.
However, my modest premium has been off set by paying for my daughter, who is 18 and just passed her test - £1,845 for an Aygo
I had to insure my daughter on her Aygo, 17, managed just under 1.5k. Some of the horror stories she's told me about her friends premiums are unreal.
Sterlo
Early Retirement Planning
- Location
- East Riding of Yorkshire
Changing tack slightly, I sorted my parents house insurance out last year after a big increase and got it down to about £235, just got the renewal through, gone up to £513. They're 94 and 87, how the hell to do they expect them to afford it. 
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
That's why son no. 2 got a Peugeot Tepee. Group 2, slow, cheap to repair, driven steadily by old people and no street cred. He paid £800 fully comp for his first year, currently paying £650 fully comp with 2 years protected NCB.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Your boy is a man of forward thinking style and substance. An eccentric English gent of the old school. I applaud his quirky style and inherent common sensisness.
johnblack
Über Member
- Location
- South Northamptonshire
I mean fair play to the boy for driving the Tepee, but there isn't a chance my daughter would drive one, she point blank refused a Fabia Monte Carlo I managed to find on the cheap, they can be extra picky when it isn't their money.
Jody
Stubborn git
chris-suffolk
Senior Member
That's easy to solve. If they don't want what you're happy to pay for, then they go without. They normally come round.
johnblack
Über Member
- Location
- South Northamptonshire
Yeah but when the alternative was me having to continue driving her around that was a non starter, the Aygo I eventually got her was a pretty good deal too, and cheaper insurance wise.
Alex321
Veteran
- Location
- South Wales
My answer to that would just have been "OK, buy your own".
johnblack
Über Member
- Location
- South Northamptonshire
Wowsers. I'd have loved a car like that when I was younger
Yeah it was a really nice looking car, but the badge has a bit of stigma still with the youth. My eldest will be insured on my company car from July, currently it's an L&K Kodiaq, she's debating whether to wait until I get my next one in September (which is a Q5) before she takes advantage of the perk. I think she'll fold and drive the Skoda.
johnblack
Über Member
- Location
- South Northamptonshire
Nah, couldn't do that, she's cool, I get it, she knows that I'd find another decent one that she would drive.
Youngest son has just bought a Mazda 2 , well a bit of help from bank of mum and Dad over the years . Still learning but ready for his test, so a bit of extra motivation now .
Insurance was errr stupid when I think what my other boys paid with their first cars , one being a Mini Cooper .
Insurance was errr stupid when I think what my other boys paid with their first cars , one being a Mini Cooper .
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
I seem to recall insurance in my Allegro 1750HL was something like £60 a year in 1985, and I felt aggrieved at the cost even then!
