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Should car insurance go down?

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    #32
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Gitb1 wrote: »
    Thats because the risk of causing an accident in a skyline is higher than in an astra not becasue its worth more
    How is it higher?


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    #33
    Gitb1
    Registered Users Posts: 393 ✭✭Gitb1


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    How is it higher?

    Seriously?

    Most astras are 1.4 or 1.6 petrol or iirc 1.7 diesel. R34 skylines come in 2.0 2.5 and 2.6 petrols so are quite considerably quicker than astras.

    Theres also a lot less skylines in Ireland and a lot more astras so I can guarantee a much higher percentage of skylines are wrote off.

    Thats why there deemed a higher risk amongst other reasons


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    #34
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Gitb1 wrote: »
    Seriously?

    Most astras are 1.4 or 1.6 petrol or iirc 1.7 diesel. R34 skylines come in 2.0 2.5 and 2.6 petrols so are quite considerably quicker than astras.

    Theres also a lot less skylines in Ireland and a lot more astras so I can guarantee a much higher percentage of skylines are wrote off.

    Thats why there deemed a higher risk amongst other reasons
    Seriously? They're faster so they're a higher risk?

    So if I drive an Astra on Monday and a Skyline on Tuesday, I'm more likely to crash on Tuesday?

    Doesn't exactly make sense, does it?

    Is it the car that makes me crash, or is it me?


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    #35
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users Posts: 26,282 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    Gitb1 wrote: »
    Seriously?

    Most astras are 1.4 or 1.6 petrol or iirc 1.7 diesel. R34 skylines come in 2.0 2.5 and 2.6 petrols so are quite considerably quicker than astras.

    Theres also a lot less skylines in Ireland and a lot more astras so I can guarantee a much higher percentage of skylines are wrote off.

    Thats why there deemed a higher risk amongst other reasons

    ok well lets take a figaro (awful yokes) and a 320d bmw , tonnes of the bmw's , handful of figaros, ignoring top speed, they have a not too different power to weight ratio yet an 18 year old male would have to bend over to pay the 320's insurance even though hes no more likely to crash the bmw and theres f*ck all figaros in ireland and theres an e36 round every corner


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    #36
    Gitb1
    Registered Users Posts: 393 ✭✭Gitb1


    Eric Cartman wrote: »
    ok well lets take a figaro (awful yokes) and a 320d bmw , tonnes of the bmw's , handful of figaros, ignoring top speed, they have a not too different power to weight ratio yet an 18 year old male would have to bend over to pay the 320's insurance even though hes no more likely to crash the bmw and theres f*ck all figaros in ireland and theres an e36 round every corner

    I understand where your coming from but if you were to look at a list of claims made by 17-23 year old males there would be more claims made on 3 series bmws than there is by lads driving figaros.
    Seriously? They're faster so they're a higher risk?

    Yes, and I'd say that the majority people would agree


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