RS_Cosworth330

Going to buy myself a cheap shitter to run about in as I'm sick to death of TWATS using my Golf as an indicator as to when they need to stop reversing to get out of the parking spaces where I live!!! Still gonna keep my Golf but will leave that parked safely at my Parents house over the other side of town, and just use the shitter to run about in day to day and won't be worried about leaving it parked outside my pad where the neighbours clearly can't f**k**g drive!!
Anyway moving on, I'm after something extreeeeemely cheap to not only buy but also insure! Not particularly fussed what it is but any ideas what I should be looking at which will be silly cheap to insure from any of your previous experiences??

WongRS

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106 diesel/1.0, well cheap to buy and insure!

fuzzy

i also had a 106 1.1 as a runaround.mid 40's mpg and managed 80 on the motorway. disposable motoring at its cheapest.
FSH , 40000 miles, 1 year mot and 5 months tax for about £500 iirc.

Maxwell

Saxo vts. Cheap to buy, easy enough to insure, quite quick for what they are, and your garaunteed a quick sale to a boy racer at the end.

Watch out for crunchy gearboxes, rear axle play, power steering pumps, leaky sunroofs and rot on the rear chassis legs and rear inner arches.

When them bits are quite good, the car will be quite reliable. I have never had a saxo that has actually broke down. Just had 1 with rear axle play (6 months after it passed mot) and had another with a leaky sunroof, 2 piece crank pulley rubber failing and after it lay up the crank sensor condensated and wouldnt start...sensor out, cleaned and back in. Sorted!

Also cheap to repair if they do give bother

xr2wishy

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+1 on the 1.1 106 bought one for £300 a couple of years back, headgasket and brakes is all it needed in three years (circa £130 in all), scrapped it for £130. never failed an MOT either.
great cheap motoring if there was a rule.

Ginge

Group 1 cars:
- Chevrolet Matiz
- Citroën C1, C2 and C3
- Peugeot 107
- Skoda Fabia
- Suzuki Alto
- Toyota Aygo
- Toyota Yaris
- Vauxhall Agila
- Smart Fortwo Coupe
Older group 1 cars:
- Seat Marbella
- Fiat 126
- Fiat Seicento
- Citroën 2CV6

Go for a classic car policy maybe?

Ginge

gouch1

bx gti i had one cheap to insure go well

RS_Cosworth330

Thanks for all the informative and helpful suggestions guys, will have a trawl through the classifieds now to see what's about...

WongRS

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I ran a 205 dturbo when i first got cossie, i paid £350 for it, cost me about the same to insure it and by the time i got ride of it, i used to love it, literally.
I'd walk out the house to go for a fun drive, and had the choice of my saff, or a derv 205, 9 times out of 10 i was in the 205.
Prices are climbing on them though .

Derby_Gav

I got a quote on a saxo 1.5 diesel and it was £600. I then got a quote on a 330d touring and that was £900. Fuck running a shitty car for the sake of 300 sheets a year difference!

craigybaby

Ka.s are usually pretty cheap

WongRS

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But ones a £500 car that he wouldn't car if it got damaged outside his house, ones a £4-5k car that he wouldn't want getting battered?

Derby_Gav

Totally agree.

It was more for me, I have been unsure whether to go for a money saving shitter or something decent.

Trouble is 3 years ago a new rs4 was only £1100 for me to insure when I got a quote!

Gavin.

fuzzy

true, but he just wants a shitter that wont matter when he gets a dent in it.
the difference between a 1.4 a class merc and a 4.0 supercharged jag for me is only £200 at £480 and £680 but i wouldnt want a dent in the jag to fix.

WongRS

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Ahh, fair enough.
I'm currently on an astra van, shouldn't of got rid of the civic vti, or my 306 hdi, TBH.

gouch1

another worth considering citroen zx the volcane td's fly cheap to run insure ect

Fiddy

Fiat CheekyCunto

WongRS

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Yes, i love volcane's, sooo comfortable.
Rare though.

snoopaloopa

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I'm running a 106 1.5 diesel as a runabout, cost me 400 3 years ago, hasn't failed an mot yet and returns 50+ mpg, cant go wrong if/when it goes wrong or fails an mot i'll scrap it and get another

clarke5700

I run around in a corsa diesal does 100 miles to a tenner but i run it on bio fuel so i do around 450miles to £35 just redone the insurence at £600 with 1 years no claims

bunnymofo

pug 306 1.9 Dturbo

RstAaron.

1.7d mk3 Astra estate, cost less to insure than my Metro...

R4N SS

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Mk4 astra diesel. Only group 4e and runs on bio all day long

Turbosimpsons

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To be honest insurance is so hit and miss at the mo. I've just had a quote for a ka on a compare site. £450 I just then change the make of car to a escort cosworth, it came out at £350. Work that out.

youngben

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nissan micra?

Rsmat

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£134 fully comp
£118 6 months tax
£45 MOT it passed just needing a rear bulb at £1.65

It's a 205 style diesel..70k from new... And the fuel economy is just brilliant... Had a good laff earlier in it... A lad pulled upto at side of me in a mk1 fiesta and started laughing so I wound the window down and showed him my screensaver of the 3dr and said this is my weekend toy ... He soon stopped laughing lol.

vaughant

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There's a pug 205td over on retro rides for about £600,shift along too.
Those 306's seem to go forever too.