Son Passed Test - Car Suggestions - Insurance Related

[arfur]

Afternoon ...

Son passed car driving test today. Well done.

He already has a full unrestricted bike licence and two bikes. He has 3 years NCD on one bike (600 sports 2006) and another policy on another bike (less than a year)

I'm looking around at car options, and I do not see any that take into account his bike experience.

From a few searches I've done, the usual 1.4 and 1.6 Focus/Golf/Clio/Ibiza are all coming in at about 1700 3rd party with 5k a year miles on a car about 1k value.

He has no intention of using the car unless the weather dictates, and only for getting to work .. in fact he has no interest in driving cars at all. It's only for commuting when a bike would be dangerous (no suitable bus route either)

So is the 1700 quid the norm ? Does anyone know of any cars (suitable for 6ft2) that may come in under this price ?

Cheers

Arf

[rek]

We had the same last month when my son passed his test.. was looking at 1700 for a clio with a black box insurance... in the end he's got a baby 4x4 (terios) and it was 600 to insure it.. It was actually 500 for the policy but then we had to re-register it from wife to son in his name on the v5 as part of the T&C's and that was 100 quid in admin!! That was with a big name multicar insurer too.

The Terios probably has Zero street cred however!

[Nemo Sum]

Add yourself to the policy. Change to fully comp, 3rd party in my experience is never actually cheaper!

[Bill]

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