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Loan for a 19 year old
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UPDATE - I did manage to get an £7500 loan at 3% over 3 years. The insurance for the car was £1000, I paid the insurance outright.0
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I'm guessing that your insurance is third party only, or 3rd party F and T?No free lunch, and no free laptop
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duggankieron wrote: »UPDATE - I did manage to get an £7500 loan at 3% over 3 years. The insurance for the car was £1000, I paid the insurance outright.
Sometimes you have to have the experience and feel the situation.
Make sure you remember to put £100 away for your tax/ins for next year - paying it outright is the right way.
You don't say what car it is but I'm sure you've got an idea of maintenance & repairs to put that away too.
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Thanks, it was a BMW 1 series 2013. I am making sure to put at least £1000 away to cover next years insurance as well as next years tax.0
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dont forget to factor in MOTs, a service, general repairs and consumables like tyres etc.0
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duggankieron wrote: »Thanks, it was a BMW 1 series 2013. I am making sure to put at least £1000 away to cover next years insurance as well as next years tax.
Statistically, now, your next biggest hurdle is not to have a claim in the next couple of years!How's it going, AKA, Nutwatch? - 12 month spends to date = 2.60% of current retirement "pot" (as at end May 2025)0 -
I currently do £50 a month for my car - maybe I'm lucky but it all soon adds up when you get MOT, service, tyres, even wiper blades & oil.duggankieron wrote: »Thanks, it was a BMW 1 series 2013. I am making sure to put at least £1000 away to cover next years insurance as well as next years tax.
Did it come with FSH?
Changing the Cambelt is a good shout if there's no record of it being changed previously which will probably be a couple of hundred quid but a good investment. From previous experience though, it's very disheartening paying out money for work on a car that is running prefectly fine (when it had the Cambelt changed) - it did pay dividends in the long run though and I managed to get it to 193500 miles/10 yrs out of it before it went to car heaven.
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duggankieron wrote: »Thanks, it was a BMW 1 series 2013. I am making sure to put at least £1000 away to cover next years insurance as well as next years tax.
Make sure to put the same again for consumables and maintenance.0
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