need a car..

tripled

Unless you're earning a pretty good wage your gonna find it difficult to get a load, even companies such as Yes! and Carcraft expect you to have a regular income. However you can always give them a go if you want. But if you are already stuggling to keep up with your phone a card bills, how do you expect to fund a car as well? Don't forget not only will you have the repayments on the car, you need to pay insurance, road tax, mot & repair costs, petrol, parking fees, etc.

With regards to having two student accounts, that would be tricky as they all specify you have to have your student loan paid into them, if you don't they'll probably close the account down. They may also pick up the fact you already have a student account when they do the credit check.

anewman

I used to go to Huddersfield University (live in leeds) and caught the train (using a student bus pass that lets you go anywhere in WY for about £50 a month). My sister's bf takes the same train as he works in Huddersfield, but he has a car and can drive. The reason for taking the train? Driving can easily take well over an hour in the rush hour traffic, the train takes 20 minutes assuming it's on time. Plus there is no parking hassle.

So driving is not always better than public transport.

I now go to Leeds Uni part time. I have seen a sneaky spot I think I *could* park if I had a car (didn't notice any signs saying residents only, or no parking etc), but the absence of cars may indicate someone's doing something to stop people parking there perhaps? Or maybe people just don't know about it. But on the whole, the obvious spaces there are for parking are few and far between, plus you have to pay more than bus fare would cost just to park.

Glitterari wrote:

Getting something too flash will just attract the wrong attention - something like 1 in 3 students get burgled...

Have also heard it said that some criminals think students are rich pickings because they get "££ loan money", and will specifically target students because of this.

louby_lou wrote:

or a local car auction

Car auctions I have seen, the decent economical cheap cars tend to get a few bids and sell well (so probably better to look in autotrader/exchangeandmart), whereas your 2.4 litre cars go cheaply (probably because peopl think about insurance costs). Although this might not be the case with all auctions so it could still be worth a look.

raju786

as for the car getting nicked i think not, i live right opposite a mile long police academy and it must be every 5 minutes that i hear flashing lights go past lol, all i have to do is look out the window and i would proabably be able to wave at a policeman lol. i have to admit i am kind of thinking to go against it now and not get a car, but it would be nice.