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Wow. Pricey. Ours was 1.2l and a smidge over £1k the first time we insured for Eb when she was a new driver.
We had black box and that made a big difference - have you checked that out?
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Note to self: must collect more old people
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P.s don't buy a Honda jazz.
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If you want cheap and cheap to insure, buy a skoda fabia. I think they're insurance group 1 or 2 and are basically a cheap Polo. Easy to drive, park in London and not too bad on motorways.
We loved ours and only replaced because we were doing more and more long journeys/UK holidays (and because I am a wanker).
We got our insurance down to about 550 a year (eb 3 years and me new driver).Am also really enjoying our 118i now though and don't feel like it's too much car for me as a new-ish driver. I think the insurance is something like 800 a year and it cost just under 10k for a 2015 plate with 30k miles on it. Bought part cash, part small bank loan (better than ridiculous finance deals) so repayments are low and it doesn't cost us much to run.
If you buy a 2011-2013 one with less than 50k miles you're looking at 6-7k (fag packet estimate). I looked at golfs but they're a bit dull and pretty much the same money as a BMW so I bought the car I liked instead.
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But... You have heavy action..
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Gross. They are awful looking and silly money.
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I've found that they do loosen themselves periodically. Probably once a year (finger in wind) - regardless of loctite or mega torque.
I broke a spring whilst out on Sunday (fun ride home). I've not bought cleats for ages - no where seems to stock the older bare metal style zero cleats.
Do I need to go with the awful yellow ones now?
Has anyone dabbled with the cheaper off brand ones you can get on Amazon or eBay? -
Car goals for sure. Wish I'd got into cars earlier in life.
100%... With driving gloves and Transitions lenses