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Re: now for the HOW OLD are you thread??

Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:14 pm
by GerryM
ejaime21 wrote:35 :thumbsup:
how many years of NCB ??

Re: now for the HOW OLD are you thread??

Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:42 pm
by flyboyaj
32, but I look and act 25 most days :trampoline:

Re: now for the HOW OLD are you thread??

Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:41 am
by ZetaQuattro
Just turned 25 :)

Re: now for the HOW OLD are you thread??

Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:15 am
by CaZ4
37 for a couple more months... :|

Re: now for the HOW OLD are you thread??

Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:25 am
by Feyd
28th on the 15th.

w00t! :driving:

Re: now for the HOW OLD are you thread??

Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 6:26 am
by Aebous
I gotta admit...I'm proud of mine. Even if it is used. Just see my "Honestly..." thread :D

Re: now for the HOW OLD are you thread??

Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:10 pm
by enfield
Old enough to know a few things and young enough so that 22 year old women enjoy it!! :D

Re: now for the HOW OLD are you thread??

Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:27 pm
by easty027
me, turning 18 in 2 months !

Re: now for the HOW OLD are you thread??

Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 2:58 pm
by Screamer
liTTle wHitE sHarK.. wrote:I AM proud of my Zed (especially because it's white :oops: ), not only because it's a BMW for me but because it's such a good drive! I've been fortunate to be able to afford one at a youngish age (25) purely because of the job I do. But seeing on this forum there are loads of youngsters here too! :P At the moment we're just a happy young couple but with little ones on the way (hopefully) I'm scared I'll have to bid farewell to the Zed!

The only thing I'm confused here is the insurance, I'm 25, married and obviously a female(!) and my Zed is 2.2l with 2 years NCB, yet my insurance is still £1000 this year! I've read some fellow users getting a Z4M, male, under 25 (as young as 21) and quoted £1300? I tried to get a quote for a 3.0 Z but it was over £1300 :?
I'm 23 (Z4 M Coupe, male, single) and am paying £1300 with Elephant. As i've said, i've got a £2000 excess, but 2 really big things for reducing my price was 1. adding my mum as a named driver and 2. saying that the car would be parked on the drive and not in the garage (amazing, but it reduced the quote by a fair amount). Hope that helps. Like Pedro says, Elephant seem to be a good insurer for us young 'uns :wink: It's also pretty easy to go back and 'tweak' your quote through their website, too.

Re: now for the HOW OLD are you thread??

Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:16 pm
by z4-Oli
Hi
Got my sterling grey z4 two weeks ago - and this is my first post! I'm 22!

Re: now for the HOW OLD are you thread??

Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:24 pm
by gannet
z4-Oli wrote:Hi
Got my sterling grey z4 two weeks ago - and this is my first post! I'm 22!
Welcome x4-Oli, hows about introducing yourself in the Newbies section? Remember some photos :)

Re: now for the HOW OLD are you thread??

Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:28 pm
by Breaker
Interesting that the garage quote was higher than the driveway quote! Wonder why that is? :?

Re: now for the HOW OLD are you thread??

Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:43 pm
by Screamer
Yeah, it was very odd Breaker... I wonder whether it's one of those oddities where Elephant (and other insurers) know what the most popular options/requirements are and therefore try to be most competitive on those things. Given that I imagine that most cars in the UK are parked on driveways rather than in garages, insurers are under more pressure to be competitive in that scenario, and less popular choices like garage end up - deliberately or just because more focus is put on being cheap for driveways - being more costly. Perhaps it's also a strange scenario created by living in what I guess is regarded as a good area, and so a car on the drive isn't considered at as much risk as it could be elsewhere...

Re: now for the HOW OLD are you thread??

Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:11 pm
by 561design
29 :|

Re: now for the HOW OLD are you thread??

Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:36 pm
by sixspeed
Screamer wrote: I'm 23 (Z4 M Coupe, male, single) and am paying £1300 with Elephant. As i've said, i've got a £2000 excess, but 2 really big things for reducing my price was 1. adding my mum as a named driver and 2. saying that the car would be parked on the drive and not in the garage (amazing, but it reduced the quote by a fair amount). Hope that helps. Like Pedro says, Elephant seem to be a good insurer for us young 'uns :wink: It's also pretty easy to go back and 'tweak' your quote through their website, too.
Ouch. I paid £1200 for a brand new Tuscan S when I was still 23. I'm sure I don't remember having an excess much higher than £600 either. Scary how much insurance has risen in a few years.

I've always found Privilege the best for me. They insured me on the Tuscan, my old RX-8, VX220 Turbo and the Z4MC. When my renewal just came up on the Z4M I tried phoning around (Adrian Flux, Elephant, Admiral, Tesco, A-Plan etc etc) and no one got close to their price. I don't know if it's because I've been with them now for the last 8 years, but they certainly beat all the competition time after time ...