First car

[miller17]

It's a j reg 1.1 in a lovely shade of red.



only picture I have at the minute, I'll upload some more later.

[BoRED S2upid]

I had one fo these at 17 it was a 1.0L redish pink H reg and was the slowest car I have ever driven. But hey I avoided accidents and getting any points built up my NCB quickly and moved onto bigger and better things.

[Garlick]

I had one a 1.1 LX on a G plate. God it was slow, even slower than the 986cc Renault 5 it replaced.

I kept it a fair while though and it was a solid little car (it was only 1 year old when I bought it though)

[miller17]

Yes it is very slow. Whats good for restoring faded paint as its not a great look driving around in a pink car.

What are the best insurance companies for young drivers as the cheapest I have found is £950 TPFT with me as only a named driver, thats 10 times the cost of the car ffs.

[petrol_ed]

For the paint I'd try some meguiars scratch x or tcut, then keep it in check with some autoglym super resin polish, they both work well with red paint. There are better and unfortunately more expensive products, but they will be overkill if you ask me.

Heres a great place to have a read about restoring paint, techniques etc, and they will be able to answer any questions, just be careful not to become to obsessed!! http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/index.php

Edited by petrol_ed on Wednesday 12th August 18:44

[Established 1984]

miller17 said:

Yes it is very slow. Whats good for restoring faded paint as its not a great look driving around in a pink car.

What are the best insurance companies for young drivers as the cheapest I have found is £950 TPFT with me as only a named driver, thats 10 times the cost of the car ffs.

If you can name both of your parents as additional drivers, this usually reduces the premium by quite a bit. Elephant were very competative when I got my first car.

Hope you enjoy the car.

[bulletproofbob]

i had a 150k diesel on a b plate... was slow as hell but went round corners well!!!

[greggy50]

miller17 said:

Yes it is very slow. Whats good for restoring faded paint as its not a great look driving around in a pink car.

What are the best insurance companies for young drivers as the cheapest I have found is £950 TPFT with me as only a named driver, thats 10 times the cost of the car ffs.

You need to give it a good t cut at the least. However a better option would be to hire a mop and get some cutting compound basically like a powerful t cut and it should get the paintwork looking nice again and remove the pink look You can get the plastics looking fresh again with wd40 although believe heard something like butter can make them look like shiny and new as well.
With regards to £950 if you are 17 that is a very good price and would not complain to much about that at all I know friends that pay nearly twice that on 1.0 corsa's, lupo's etc...

[Mr.Jimbo]

^^ Peanut butter, apparently.

Mate had one of these as his first car, was a right laugh!

[_dobbo_]

£960 sounds like a result, I paid £750 on my first car and that was 13 years ago!

Mind you it was a 1.5 "system Porsche" engine... And a real heap as well.

[Team Sizoo]

If theres no rust under the fuel filler cap its win!

[timlongs]

£950 is cheap for insurance!

I'm paying £1300!

[bishbash]

_dobbo_ said:

£960 sounds like a result, I paid £750 on my first car and that was 13 years ago!

Mind you it was a 1.5 "system Porsche" engine... And a real heap as well.

So you had a Seat Ibiza then?

[R1 GTR]

timlongs said:

£950 is cheap for insurance!

I'm paying £1300!

What he said.

[_dobbo_]

bishbash said:

_dobbo_ said:

£960 sounds like a result, I paid £750 on my first car and that was 13 years ago!

Mind you it was a 1.5 "system Porsche" engine... And a real heap as well.

So you had a Seat Ibiza then?

Oh yeah, she was a beaut. I painted the wheels myself with hammerite and put on the white stripes as well, how cool did I look ?



Sorry for the thread hijack anyway. Good first car - and he's right about the rusty filler cap, my fiesta had that and it used to leak fuel when I turned right, stank like buggery.

[gareth.e]

£950 is st if you arent the main driver!

You want to be the main driver of the car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BelperJim]

I had a 1.0l as my first car was the worst car I have ever driven. I still miss it.

[Tomm1992]

Hi where do you get the insurance for £950? when ever i try on a 1.1 fiesta its usually £1900 lol

[APEX66]

Get a new seed pod, lush cars

[i remember]

Established 1984 said:

miller17 said:

Yes it is very slow. Whats good for restoring faded paint as its not a great look driving around in a pink car.

What are the best insurance companies for young drivers as the cheapest I have found is £950 TPFT with me as only a named driver, thats 10 times the cost of the car ffs.

If you can name both of your parents as additional drivers, this usually reduces the premium by quite a bit. Elephant were very competative when I got my first car.

Hope you enjoy the car.

Yep ill second that, both parents saved me 300 quid!