Buying first car as a 17 year old

ilikewatch

Remember that as a 17 year old there's a lot of "hidden" costs. You'll need an exhaust with a tailpipe big enough to lose a dog up, huge alloys with ultra low profile ditch finders on, loads of accessories from Halfords, a cuddly smurf to hang from the rear towing eye, and stickers, stickers, stickers...

Mercdriver

Strider590 wrote: »

What a tragic waste

Depends whether it's Dry Blackthorn, Strongbow or real cider...:beer:

Strider590

Mercdriver wrote: »

Depends whether it's Dry Blackthorn, Strongbow or real cider...:beer:

They changed Strongbow probably about 6 months ago, it no longer tastes like the chemical bathwater it's been for the last 3 decades, I still struggle to utter those words in the pub, but if there's nothing other than that fruity/oversweet alcopop trendy cider, then it has to be done sometimes.

Shaka_Zulu

Deleted_User wrote: »

Would I also need to get insurance even if I leave it sitting in my drive?

I presume you mean your parents drive? You will need there permission and if you go about this in a secretive fashion they might be inclined to say no. Then what?

There are plenty of cars out there tick each box one at time in the correct order.

1. Take lessons
2. Pass driver awareness test.
3. Pass driving test.
4. Get some experience with parents.
5. DISCUSS options and affordability of buying car with parents.
Can you afford the insurance?
6. Get insurance quotes return to point 5 and repeat........

etc etc

bigadaj

worried_jim wrote: »

Just spat a mouthful of cider over the keyboard. I'm having this.

Sounds like a misquote to me.

The standard response to any type of rip off financial transaction is that they charge more aggressively than an angry rhino, or maybe a crash of rhinos.

worried_jim

Mercdriver wrote: »

Depends whether it's Dry Blackthorn, Strongbow or real cider...:beer:

Scrumpy Jack. £4x4 @ the Co Op. Started early.

Strider590

bigadaj wrote: »

Sounds like a misquote to me.

Actually it's far simpler, it's a local saying, meaning to get violated in posterior by a large angry, wrinkly animal with a large horn.

macman

OP, do you have the cash to buy the car outright? You can't get a finance contract in your own name until you are 18. And keeping the car uninsured on a private drive, while legal as long as you SORN it, it not only pointless, since it can't be driven, but means that if it suffers damage, fire or theft, then you will have to bear the cost. And in the meantime it depreciates every single day ir sits there.

Mercdriver

as you aren't 18, you will also have to pay your insurance in one lump sum, and that would be a very high amount.

Herzlos

I'd never recommend getting a car before you pass your test *unless* it's a relative giving it to you instead of trading it in.

In you're case it's even worse - you can't even drive it until you've passed. So you'll need to leave it on the drive for a few months, paying for insurance. If you don't pass first time (lots don't) then it'll sit even longer. So when you eventually pass you've got a car that's potentially a year older and hasn't moved in all that time. So you've wasted all that depreciation and insurance on it.

Stick the cash for the car, and the cash for the insurance into a savings account, and then go and buy a car when you pass.

There is nothing special about the Clio you're looking at buying, they are everywhere.