£1000 for a Corsa C

£2900 WITH the box, 3800 without. Corsa is exactly a grand cheaper with or without box, it looks so CLEAN too

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201245491426477/sort/default/usedcars/engine-size-cars/1-7l_to_1-9l/transmission/manual/maximum-mileage/up_to_80000_miles/price-to/1000/model/vectra/make/vauxhall/onesearchad/used/onesearchad/nearlynew/onesearchad/new/radius/200/postcode/se264dy/page/1?logcode=p

Thing is, for the equivelent corsa you'll be paying £500-£700 more anyway.
A car up at 895 you aught to be able to get for £700-£750.
What does that buy you in a corsa? Sod all.

You might find if you look at newer vectras - 04 plates up at £1300 (with a view to knocking a bit off the deal) that the insurance will come down a bit as the car is worth more.

Once you get into "banger" teritory i.e a few hundred quids worth insurance companys tend to up the price significantly.
"It's an old car so joe bloggs takes that attitude they can drive like a knob and buy another next weekend when it's wrecked"


Why not see what 2 grands worth of vectra would cost to insure? i.e a late 05 plate or perhaps 2 grands worth of Mondeo?
You're looking at cars up to 7 years old at this point (the industry anticipates a car to have a life of 12 years before it's crushed) so the perception is that you'll still want to look after it for a few years.

Have a go and see what you can come up with?

Thing is, for the equivelent corsa you'll be paying £500-£700 more anyway.
A car up at 895 you aught to be able to get for £700-£750.
What does that buy you in a corsa? Sod all.

You might find if you look at newer vectras - 04 plates up at £1300 (with a view to knocking a bit off the deal) that the insurance will come down a bit as the car is worth more.

Once you get into "banger" teritory i.e a few hundred quids worth insurance companys tend to up the price significantly.
"It's an old car so joe bloggs takes that attitude they can drive like a knob and buy another next weekend when it's wrecked"


Why not see what 2 grands worth of vectra would cost to insure? i.e a late 05 plate or perhaps 2 grands worth of Mondeo?
You're looking at cars up to 7 years old at this point (the industry anticipates a car to have a life of 12 years before it's crushed) so the perception is that you'll still want to look after it for a few years.

Have a go and see what you can come up with?

Thanks JC, always giving out good advice over the years!

And I don't trust myself on Black Box insurance, besides even if I did I wouldn't I've heard bad reviews, like premiums going up because of heavy accelartion/braking... it's bound to happen at junctions...

EDIT - Just checked again on a 2001 Vectra 1.8LS 16V, £895, 75,000 miles....

£2900 WITH the box, 3800 without. Corsa is exactly a grand cheaper with or without box, it looks so CLEAN too

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201245491426477/sort/default/usedcars/engine-size-cars/1-7l_to_1-9l/transmission/manual/maximum-mileage/up_to_80000_miles/price-to/1000/model/vectra/make/vauxhall/onesearchad/used/onesearchad/nearlynew/onesearchad/new/radius/200/postcode/se264dy/page/1?logcode=p

Right. Co-op young drivers. There's a thread on here with about 1000 posts about it...

You add your parents on as named drivers then put their millage really high and yours to about 3000?

It's fine as long as you don't drive around like a complete knob. The biggest no with it is the driving after 11. All the other scores are really easy to keep high. I basically ignore the box now but try to not drive after 11 and my score is pretty high.

That's why I didn't go for the Co-op. I went with Insure The Box. No curfew or anything- drive when and where you like.

Your premiums don't get changed based on how you drive either.

When you take the insurance out, you take out 6k or 8k miles. This means you can only do 6k (or 8k) miles that year, which is fine for me. I'm only on like 1k miles and i'm half way through the policy If you go over the set miles limit, you can buy more.

If you drive well, you get bonus miles (100 max each month). If you drive badly, you just don't get extra miles.

I was very lucky and got my corsa for nothing, my step dad owns a garage and got the car for next to nothing because it needed a new engine which is what he specialises in really, so I swapped my C2 (was a present from him and my mum previously) because I really wasn't liking driving the Citroen.

I love how nippy it is, was always scared I couldn't pull out fast enough in my C2 it seemed super slow. but in relation to insurance it was 5000 for a new policy when I looked at it (3 for the C2) but my insurance company did it for an extra 700, did pretty dam expensive tho but I like the car, I like how it drives anyway, but I think the corsa was probably one of the highest quotes I got, probably because of where I live too tho. mine has a very low biting point (which I love!) but is this common in corsas?



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