Student Cars

Zziggi

Gosh, students with cars? In my day (and i ain't THAT old) no-one had cars except the really posh kids. What ever happened to 'poor students'? How times have changed....

lau_dicker

I'm 22, female with 4 NCD. I have a peugeot 306 1.9TD and it cost me £425 fully comp this year, thats with 4 year NCD, well it was £375 and the extra £50 was for my boyfriend who had just past his test, I tried putting my mam on the poilcy as well, but that brought it up to about £800! She does have 1 speeding ticket and although she's been driving for 22 years, she has no NCD cos she's always on dad's policy.

My first car was a 106 1.4 diesel and that was £900 TPFT.

DrFluffy

jw1096 wrote: »

Im now with Norwich Union Quote Me Happy, and its £320 TPFT with 1 yr NCB.

I honestly hope you never have to claim from them. The solicitors they use are more than a little incompetent...

map200uk

i have a crazy idea, how about perhaps, shock horror...walk?

I don't have a car, and i am at uni, i manage just fine,

map200uk

Zziggi wrote: »

Gosh, students with cars? In my day (and i ain't THAT old) no-one had cars except the really posh kids. What ever happened to 'poor students'? How times have changed....

mate, its still like that now, the rich spoilt kids who have to show off will have a car, the rest of the majority wont

and to be honest, it's better that way, having a car while being at uni, petrol, tax, mot, parking etc, and if in halls you often still have to pay parking-i know you did at my uni!

Impet_Limpet

I had a car at university but I'm not rich or spoilt, I worked for 4 years before I went to university. I have to admit when I started uni I couldn't live without the independence of having my own car so although I'd planned to leave it in a lock up it soon joined me! Although I cut back on many other things, nights out weren't my thing, clothes were bought with birthday money and I lived off pasta and pesto!!

Its weird to see so many just out of college driving brand new cars on finance...not a £400 rust heap and looking like they have just stepped out of a modelling shoot!

emzig123

map200uk wrote: »

mate, its still like that now, the rich spoilt kids who have to show off will have a car, the rest of the majority wont

and to be honest, it's better that way, having a car while being at uni, petrol, tax, mot, parking etc, and if in halls you often still have to pay parking-i know you did at my uni!

I'm in my final year, have had a car now for this academic year as my mum bought a new one and my current one is worth nothing to sell. I am by no means spoilt, I have worked damn hard this year to make sure I can afford to run it. I budget to the last penny and if you are careful there's no reason why anyone cannot afford to run a car. By saying 'only spoilt kids have them' you are simply showing that you have a chip on your shoulder and need to grow up. By the way, I commute from Bristol to Leeds every two weeks to see my boyfriend and running a car is much less expensive than train fares and I can give lifts to people, further lowering my/their costs. Equally, I don't drink, AT ALL and I dont live at home in the holdays so I feel that with management I can afford a car. It doesn't make me rich or spoilt, just careful.

Do not tar us all with the same brush, I do agree about the kids with new car though, completely unnecessary.

kr15snw

map200uk wrote: »

i have a crazy idea, how about perhaps, shock horror...walk?

I don't have a car, and i am at uni, i manage just fine,

As much as this sounds nice, it doesnt work for me! I live a 25 minute drive from uni so couldnt walk it (would be way over an hour) and have to take alot of stuff that I couldnt carry. Our local bus's are terrible so I use the park and ride scheme. Which I need my car to get to!

celyn90

I bought a motorbike instead as there is no way I could park a car where I study! It's much more fun and significantly cheaper to run. My road tax is £15 pa and the first years insurance was free with it. It also enables me to live out of the city centre (I live about 8 miles from my department) so my rent is cheaper too. I get the bus if it's icy/windy/scary and cycle if it's a nice day and I'm up early enough. I do have to carry stuff in, but you get used to the rucksack.

tr3mor

map200uk wrote: »

i have a crazy idea, how about perhaps, shock horror...walk?

I don't have a car, and i am at uni, i manage just fine,

Good for you. I prefer the freedom having a car gives me.

The vast majority of students in my city, Manchester, never seem to leave the Oxford Road bus route. They have no idea what else is around them. Their lives involve Fallowfield, the uni, and shopping in the town centre. If you're content living like that then fine.

I can go to the Peak District, various parks, different towns, home in Wolves, my girlfriend's grandparents' farm in the middle of Cheshire, etc on a whim. I don't have to rely on non existent public transport to get me places.