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a_person
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by a_person » Tue Feb 15, 2011 11:30 am
Beate wrote:Geez, what car do you drive? I don't think OH pa*d more than £300, and he drives an old banger!
Only a Citroen C2!!!!!!! Hardly a Lamborghini!
That's what made it even more
Imagine if I did drive a Lamborghini - hate to think what the insurance would have been on that! Even my Polo was insured at a lower rate and that had a bigger engine too!
No residents permit for me this year either.

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by prettyxcool » Tue Feb 15, 2011 11:36 am
Gosh, that's excessive a_person, hope you shopped around?
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by a_person » Tue Feb 15, 2011 11:37 am
Yes.

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by ejwrank » Tue Feb 15, 2011 11:38 am
a_person -- not a great solution but you could increase your excess and that might decrease your premium a bit. Afraid that all insurance seems to be going up but that is little comfort.
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by prettyxcool » Tue Feb 15, 2011 11:38 am
That's dreadful. It's because you are very young, I expect.
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by a_person » Tue Feb 15, 2011 11:43 am
Everyone who said it's gone up, only went up by £60 or so and if that happened to me, I wouldn't have cared so much. I'm on a two year lease for my car so I have to insure it but next year when I go to b*y a car, I'll have to rethink as to what I can and can't afford.
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by weliveandbreathewords » Tue Feb 15, 2011 11:44 am
my bf has a citroen c4, hes only 21, and even his isnt that high! :S
very weird indeed :/
have you made any claims this year?
bf was going to claim on the accident he had by mine(someone smashed into his and my mates car whilst they were parked up, then drove off)
but his dad said hed p*y for it since his insurance would go up by nearly a grand O_O
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by Deni » Tue Feb 15, 2011 11:45 am
I always hope to have a car someday... then I think about the insurance and gas to p*y....... Unbelievable!
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a_person
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by a_person » Tue Feb 15, 2011 11:45 am
prettyxcool wrote:That's dreadful. It's because you are very young, I expect.
Hardly that young anymore! I'm over the age limit now! Hardly classified as a young driver anymore.

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by raj101 » Tue Feb 15, 2011 11:50 am
a_person wrote:Imagine if I did drive a Lamborghini - hate to think what the insurance would have been on that! Even my Polo was insured at a lower rate and that had a bigger engine too!

you could get to more screenings in a Lamborghini... tearing between cinemas at 200mph.
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