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Right, looking for insurance quotes and i really don’t want a black box. It sounds like they’re not too strict from what I’ve read but I don’t want to feel like I’ve got someone/something monitoring my driving all the time.
Realistically, is there anyway a 17yo can get insurance without one - without being crazy money?
Realistically, is there anyway a 17yo can get insurance without one - without being crazy money?
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(Original post by Skiing_is_life)
Right, looking for insurance quotes and i really don’t want a black box. It sounds like they’re not too strict from what I’ve read but I don’t want to feel like I’ve got someone/something monitoring my driving all the time.
Realistically, is there anyway a 17yo can get insurance without one - without being crazy money?
Right, looking for insurance quotes and i really don’t want a black box. It sounds like they’re not too strict from what I’ve read but I don’t want to feel like I’ve got someone/something monitoring my driving all the time.
Realistically, is there anyway a 17yo can get insurance without one - without being crazy money?
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(Original post by Skiing_is_life)
Right, looking for insurance quotes and i really don’t want a black box. It sounds like they’re not too strict from what I’ve read but I don’t want to feel like I’ve got someone/something monitoring my driving all the time.
Realistically, is there anyway a 17yo can get insurance without one - without being crazy money?
Right, looking for insurance quotes and i really don’t want a black box. It sounds like they’re not too strict from what I’ve read but I don’t want to feel like I’ve got someone/something monitoring my driving all the time.
Realistically, is there anyway a 17yo can get insurance without one - without being crazy money?
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adding yourself as a secondary named driver when you are actually the main driver is called fronting - it is illegal so I would not do that
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(Original post by TSRTD)
If you really hate the idea of getting a black box, adding yourself as a secondary named driver may make the insurance cheaper, but you won't be able to build your no claims which in the future helps to keep your insurance as cheap as possible.
If you really hate the idea of getting a black box, adding yourself as a secondary named driver may make the insurance cheaper, but you won't be able to build your no claims which in the future helps to keep your insurance as cheap as possible.
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(Original post by IWMTom)
Yes. Pick the right car for your circumstances.
Yes. Pick the right car for your circumstances.
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(Original post by Skiing_is_life)
Do you have any suggestions on a car? Happy with anything
Do you have any suggestions on a car? Happy with anything
You need to do some research and obtain some quotes of a whole range of cars. There's no one size fits all.
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(Original post by Skiing_is_life)
Right, looking for insurance quotes and i really don’t want a black box. It sounds like they’re not too strict from what I’ve read but I don’t want to feel like I’ve got someone/something monitoring my driving all the time.
Realistically, is there anyway a 17yo can get insurance without one - without being crazy money?
Right, looking for insurance quotes and i really don’t want a black box. It sounds like they’re not too strict from what I’ve read but I don’t want to feel like I’ve got someone/something monitoring my driving all the time.
Realistically, is there anyway a 17yo can get insurance without one - without being crazy money?
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(Original post by Skiing_is_life)
Do you have any suggestions on a car? Happy with anything
Do you have any suggestions on a car? Happy with anything
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(Original post by Skiing_is_life)
Right, looking for insurance quotes and i really don’t want a black box. It sounds like they’re not too strict from what I’ve read but I don’t want to feel like I’ve got someone/something monitoring my driving all the time.
Realistically, is there anyway a 17yo can get insurance without one - without being crazy money?
Right, looking for insurance quotes and i really don’t want a black box. It sounds like they’re not too strict from what I’ve read but I don’t want to feel like I’ve got someone/something monitoring my driving all the time.
Realistically, is there anyway a 17yo can get insurance without one - without being crazy money?
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(Original post by Skiing_is_life)
Do you have any suggestions on a car? Happy with anything
Do you have any suggestions on a car? Happy with anything
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(Original post by Skiing_is_life)
Do you have any suggestions on a car? Happy with anything
Do you have any suggestions on a car? Happy with anything
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Even with a 1.0 car and named drivers it will lower it of course but not as much as adding a blackbox, i hated my box for first year but my 1.0 corsa was something like £1,100 instead of almost £1800 (cant remember exactly) but if you can afford to then yeah dont bother with a box they're a nightmare, i got a 1.0 corsa for my first car and was perfect but suggestions above are decent too.
Last edited by Nick6501; 1 month ago
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When I had a blackbox it made me hate driving and gave me driving anxiety so I would definitely say don’t get a box but because they offer such a discount on your first year it’s a 50-50 gamble but if you can afford to go without a blackbox then definitely do it.
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i dont get what the problem with a black box is. ive got one at the moment and paid £800 first year and 500 second year. i constantly got a bad score for speed or smoothness and still got a good saving the next year
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(Original post by mechengineer8)
i dont get what the problem with a black box is. ive got one at the moment and paid £800 first year and 500 second year. i constantly got a bad score for speed or smoothness and still got a good saving the next year
i dont get what the problem with a black box is. ive got one at the moment and paid £800 first year and 500 second year. i constantly got a bad score for speed or smoothness and still got a good saving the next year
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Okay cheers for all the suggestions. I’ll see what i can afford. Thanks
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(Original post by IWMTom)
That's all well and good.... until you get a cancellation letter through the door...
That's all well and good.... until you get a cancellation letter through the door...
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I have been reading this thread throughout the day and honestly I do not really get why so many people are against a black box or what insurance companies you were with. I had 2 black boxes over 18months on a shared car. We used to get "telemetry" updates about our progress. we were not getting anything amazing (except on motorway driving) There were times were we would get rly low scores (direct line bases there score on types of roads and time of day as well as smoothness). i don't think the black box made me a better or worse driver but I took it because it saved us few hundred £s.
I am honestly intrigued as to why so many people are anti Black box?
I am honestly intrigued as to why so many people are anti Black box?
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(Original post by ReadingMum)
adding yourself as a secondary named driver when you are actually the main driver is called fronting - it is illegal so I would not do that
adding yourself as a secondary named driver when you are actually the main driver is called fronting - it is illegal so I would not do that
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