33K stg Quote for car insurance!

doopa

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-12824940

bbc wrote:

A teenager has described his amazement after being quoted almost £33,000 to insure his second-hand car.
Jake Redshaw, 17, from Salford, bought a six-year-old Vauxhall Corsa for £3,000 after he passed his test earlier in March.
He told the BBC he expected comparison website insurance quotes to reach about £3,000 - but received a headline figure of of £32,819 from the AA.

Unbelievable. I can still remember getting my first insurance. Thank god it wasn't that high. Its almost as if the insurance companies don't want young people driving.

Atomic Pineapple

Mine was 4000 púnt as a named driver, even that was crazy, £33k is a piss take!

andyseadog

was 33k an admin/ computer error? cant see it being genuine.

my first year was 3500. madness when you look back!

Max_Damage

My first insurance was €2,000!

R.O.R

It's Salford - what did he expect?

doopa

doopa wrote: »

Its almost as if the insurance companies don't want young people driving.

They don't
I was really lucky with mine, got the IR£4000 + quote on 1 litres but got insured for IR£1588 with Hibernian on a 9 year old Rover 414 when I was 18 on a provisional, strangely enough I think two or three years later I was quoted IR£2400 with a 2/3 years NCB and a full license, off to Quinn then, I defo paid IR£2000+ for a year or two though.

doopa

Meant to add mine - I was living in Belfast at the time though.
2,500 stg

It really does help to go on as a named driver.

mb1725

Don't remember the cost of my first cover but I do remember the PMPA sending me a quote, I thought they were making me an offer for the car!:)

Shane732

Sorry but would the idiot not have checked the insurance out before the he bought the car......

:pac:

chiefwiggum

my bro got one when he was 19 for an mr2 which he had paid a deposit on he was originally qouted 2500 when he went to change his insurance over they said there was a huge mistake and they said it would be 12000
yes 12000 euro
he asked them to post it out in writing and sure enough out it came...i think he still has it somewhere

Marcusm

I regularly run quotes on comparison websites when considering changing cars - maybe every three months or so. When the credit crunch was at its height, large SUVs dropped significantly in value here in the UK. I considered picking up a 3-4 year old Porsche Cayenne S (almost no non S) for £16,500 and the highest quote was £129,999, the next £99,999. THe best quote was around £1,300 although I didn't proceed. THe UK insurance market is different from Ireland a lot (100+) of players some of which promise to quote for any details but clearly indicate they don't want the business. People generally find this story amusing.

robtri

a guy i used to work with... was quoted £14,000 for insurance on a pug 106...... 1.1... no mods.... he was 19 at the time

he even got a written quote from them and rang them to confirm it.....
and they confirmed it.....


mine was £1400

x in the city

prob true, I got a quote of over a grand for my mondeo...

tried RSA and got a quote of 200 pounds or so.. I pay 300e here with RSA for the car.

vectra

First insurance :rolleyes:

I remember my shock when I came from a Honda 750/4 - insured for £53

To a ford granada 2.0 insured for £245 :eek:

Seems good now though.:P

W.Shakes-Beer

Mine was €1800 on a 1.4 Astra when I was 18.

darragh o meara

Was quoted 12k pounds to insure an escort cosworth back when i was 21. Couldnt get any quote less than 10k so sold the car

jamesr123

I got a quote the other day €3000 on a 1.4 golf and €2500 for a 1 litre micra so I had to get the micra :(

Senna

£2500punts on a 1ltr diesel charade on a full license when i was 21

Reloc8

€350 as a named driver, first provisional, BMW 318 ti compact.
only a complete bollix would ask how old I was :P

bladebrew

i got quoted £6800 on an aprillia rs 125 motorbike, i didnt buy it:)
my first quote on a car was €1400 not too bad i suppose!

YouTookMyName

1700euro at 19 on a 02 1.6 Focus. Only had Full licence a few weeks. Mate paid 2700 On a 02 almera third party and he was 23 on a provisional.

Ardennes1944

1800 on my old mk2 punty at 17

CiniO

My first insurance was about 65 euros for a year.
I was 19, and car was cinquecento sporting.
It included my dad's 60% NCB which he agreed that I could use.
If not that, my premium would be probably about 160 euros.

ThatGuyHughesy

The worst quote I got was €7000, but that's just ridiculous!

howardmarks

6500 punts on a 1 litre suzuki swift. think i was 19 and the car ended up sitting in the driveway til it no longer started and getting scrapped. absolutely rediculous considering i was a grown up and had the facial hair to prove it.

Guy:Incognito

howardmarks wrote: »

absolutely rediculous considering i was a grown up and had the facial hair to prove it.

Even more ridiculous because it probably only wouldnt start cos the battery was dead.€50 on a battery was harfly the differnce between a decent car and a scrapper.

Stealthirl

mine was 4K on a 89 1L micra that went up to 4,800 punts on a 3 year old 1.3 civic back in 98
its now 1K ish on a 18 year old soarer with all mods declared

ottostreet

CiniO wrote: »

My first insurance was about 65 euros for a year.
I was 19, and car was cinquecento sporting.
It included my dad's 60% NCB which he agreed that I could use.
If not that, my premium would be probably about 160 euros.

Even if you add a zero onto each figure, both of them are cheaper than I would have expected. I've NEVER heard of a policy only costing 65 euro?

CiniO

ottostreet wrote: »

Even if you add a zero onto each figure, both of them are cheaper than I would have expected. I've NEVER heard of a policy only costing 65 euro?

Because it wasn't in Ireland but in Poland.

CiniO

CiniO wrote: »

Because it wasn't in Ireland but in Poland.

I reckon you were sickened paying the €65 :P
Probably thought over €52.47 was a rip off :pac:

CiniO

RoverJames wrote: »

I reckon you were sickened paying the €65 :P
Probably thought over €52.47 was a rip off :pac:

;):):););):):););):):):)

hahahahaha.

Owen

Mine used to be about 2.5k for a motorbike, then the underwriter for the Irish company went bust in the UK, and all of a sudden, I had to come up with another 2.5k. Made the news here at the time because everyone's insurance has a 2% levy to go into a fund to protect against this, and as it turned out, the fund had been done away with by FF, and everyone was still paying the 2% into Government coffers anyway.