Author Topic: How much have people spent on their Mk3's in mods? (Read 7219 times)

Gash · « **Reply #50 on:** 02 February 2012, 13:01 »

Quote from: VR6_Wherry on 02 February 2012, 11:27

Quote from: Edwh0re on 02 February 2012, 06:51
Just a tip on the insurance front. We have found with my fiancee (she is 22, drives a 1litre Corsa, 1 own fault accident, no convictions) that it is better to do the groundwork on the internet, but there is no substitute for ringing around and dealing with companies direct.

Plus...I am down on her policy as a named driver, and that has brought her insurance down a good £200 this year (36 years old, full no claims, no convictions in the past 10 years, no claims in the past 18). She is now managing to get quotes for £500 a year fully comp, whereas 2 years ago she struggled to get anything less than £1400 on the Corsa when she could insure my 2.0 golf gti with all mods declaired for £850 (still she sticks with the Corsa )

Get on that phone and start bartering!

Sorry, i only seemed to get from your post that you are 36 and your Fiancee is 22!

and me!! haha

my insurance is £1k with 6 points (in10) and all mods declared and covered! 23 with 1 years no claims

clancy · « **Reply #51 on:** 02 February 2012, 13:04 »

Quote from: Dan_GTi8v on 02 February 2012, 07:20

forget all these comparison site jokers, I used to be with elephant before I learned the error of my ways, I was paying £800 or so for my 8v gti at 25. Stuck with it for a few years as tbh I couldn't be arsed to change but I so wish I had.

I now pay £740 for a mk3 1.8t conversion with all the usual mods lowered s/s exhaust etc etc fully declared. Even declared the remap I had to ask the guy to repeat the quote and check he hadnt made a mistake

Give Sky Insurance a ring, you also get 20% off just for being a forum member

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=207367.0

any websites who arent on price comparisons dont give quotes to anyone with less than 2 years driving or are under 19. so young drivers have no choice to go on comparison sights mate. sky insurance inlcuded.

@ les.tansey my golf is TPTT because i didnt see the point insuring a really cheap car fully comp tbh, wouldnt get much back if it was wrote off. i had the clio on FC, selling that cus when my renewal came up it was too much, but that wasnt them putting it up, it didnt change at all it was just that i moved to a worse post code.

so if you can afford the insurance youl be fine, they wont put it up. the only thing i forgot to say was, with elephant etc they normal make you pay the whole lot up front :/ which is a bit of a pain if you dont have the cash laying about. its the direct debit payments that make everyones insurance so high at our age. its well worth getting a credit card or bank loan, pay the insurance off in one hit then pay the bank back monthly. makes no difference to you, just saves on your insurance

that makes sense? think i rambled lol

les.tansey · « **Reply #52 on:** 02 February 2012, 15:50 »

Good idea about getting a credit card, but I just got a quote from elephant for my 1.6 with my dad (with 15+ years driving...) and my quote was £6151.00

I'm pretty sure im not doing anything wrong... I'm half way throught trying to get them to give me a quote for a 16v like yourself but their site and my internet are currently being sh!te