Want to buy your first car? Help is here!

Haven't passed my test yet (july 2nd) but am just having a browse around for something cheap really. Don't exactly want to spend more than 2 grand (for the car and insurance).

Tough to do I realise, and may well be impossible, but any ideas?

Doesn't seem like this is going to happen at all.
Having had a look around, the cheapest quote I can get to insure anything seems to be around £2000
Anyone got any ideas?

ok this might sound stupid, but how do u flash your lights at someone? i know how to turn my headlights on, but do u just quickly turn them on and off or is there like a quicker button to do so. lol i know that sounds stupid but just wondering x

Doesn't seem like this is going to happen at all.
Having had a look around, the cheapest quote I can get to insure anything seems to be around £2000
Anyone got any ideas?

What companies have you tried and are you the only driver?

First car in thailand was a bmw 630ci

Cost 3.5 million baht then 200% iport duty which made it something like 12 million baht overall....so it cost around £200,000 as 60 baht to £1 Thailand insurance was around £700

In England my car is an e55 which cost around £35 grand, innsurance is a fleet policy which is around £1000 i believe.

Im an extreme exception to the british rule of starting of with small engines and i love my cars

Tried a couple of comparison websites -gocompare comparethemarket. Have had a quick glance at one of two of the insurer's website's too, but that hasn't got me anywhere either.

I've tried getting quotes with just me as the main driver, and with me as the main and my father as a named. Both come out around the same (my father hasn't actually driven since he passed his test 20 odd years ago, so that's why adding him isn't really making a difference).

Adding a parent as an additional driver can only put the premium up.

Adding one as the main driver does quite the opposite.

On the comparison sites anyway I get around the same quote for just me as I do for me and my dad. And confused.com has the quote of just me as £200 more than the quote for me and my father.

can't put my dad as a main driver really though, as I'm going to Bath uni in september. So being 70 miles away from home with the car isn't a good idea if its in his name lol.

Thanks though

Hahaha, I remember wondering the EXACT same thing when I first passed my test.

You just use your 'full beam light' stick, and pull it to you and then forward again really quick There's no quick button sadly. That's pretty quick though!

As I said in my above thread... do passplus. That should whack some money off.

What about just third party, fire and theft for your first year? That's what I had... depends how badly you want fully comp though I guess.

I only used my car to get to college and work, and not for any journeys longer than 20 minutes.. so I didn't see the point in all that money for fully comp.

worryingly, the quotes I got where third party fire and theft.
I'll have a look how much pass plus will take off later, to see if it's worth doing.
Cheers.