Cheap car insurance for young drivers?

eggineer

So i want to get cheap car insurance as a young female driver, i've seen aviva's deal (10 nlessons and 6 months cover for €500) but unfortunately none of my family are insured with aviva for anything so i cant avail of it, although do you think if i rand them up and ppleeded with them they'd give me the deal?

Other than that is there anyway i could get insurance for cheap?

I've looked for quotes as my mom as the main driver and me as a named one but that only reduces the price by about €200

Are there any other deals insurance companies are running?

Chnandler Bong

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Compton

anyway you look at it, young (17-20) with provisional, small car (1-1.4l) will be 1000-2500

eggineer

so there are no deals available

Max_Damage

Try internet brokers (i.e. Best Quote, etc.), they're usually cheaper, but still not cheap if you're young.

Alanstrainor

Ring around to brokers next week. I found online quotes to be terrible. Although i'm a guy...so insurance just sucks for me anyway!

Tomebagel

Been there done that,just swap your mom over to aviva,best case scenario her insurance might come down too and you get insured for 6 months with 10 driving lessons for 400 euro,theres no better value then that!

I was gettin quotes of 5-6 grand for a 1.0l 1987 starlet,its degrading

Alanstrainor

Tomebagel wrote: »

I was gettin quotes of 5-6 grand for a 1.0l 1987 starlet,its degrading

Well to be fair, those starlets have a terrible rep these days because they've suddenly become cool for some reason or another. I'm sure if you got a quote on a Mazda 121 it would be less than half that.

Compton

im paying 1800 on provisional, 18, shop around its the best thing you can do..

TrailerBob

Unfortunately OP, its just something we all have to go through, 10 years ago paid over 3 and a half grand on a 94 clio. Now its 510 on my landcruiser, no cheap way out. Unless you can get older...:pac:

W.Shakes-Beer

Im very happy with FBD, would recommend them.

Im paying €980 as a 21 yo male, 3 years NCB with a 1.8 litre Astra.

cloneslad

even though I turn 27 in 2 months I'm still being screwed for insurance. (male)

I got my full license over a year ago but went abroad 2 weeks later so I don't have any no claims bonus. My insurance with aviva (cheapest I could get after ringing around brokers all day) was for €940, (on a 1.4) it has the potential to go down a further 20-40% depending on how I do in their ignition course.

So in theory it could go down to €752 / €564 based on my test score. the €750 price is something along the lines of what i expected to pay with most insurance companies, but what can you do??

The only way to get cheaper insurance is to get older and build up driving experience and a no claims bonus on your own name. You just have to take the hit (financially) for the first few years, if driving is what you want to do)

**Timbuk2**

I got the Aviva Deal (although I think it was only €400/€450 when I got it - about a year and 5 months ago).

It's probably the best value you'll get as a learner, moreso if you're male. (being female is a significant advantage in terms of insurance quotes).

None of my parents were with Aviva, but my mother switched over. She had to end her current insurance policy, but you get a certain percentage of the money back (for the remainder of the policy). It's not that difficult to switch insurance policies.

aravmithun

Try chill.ie or insure.ie................

sarahcoles30

aravmithun wrote: »

Try chill.ie or insure.ie................

You mean to say churchill ?

eggineer

After ringing around and trying to get a good 20 different quotes ( I didnt know there were that many brokers in Ireland!) I managed to find my cheapest insurance, as one earlier poster said, Aviva really is the best.
I managed to get insured with my mom as the main driver and me as named driver for €770 on a 1.1L. Delighted, even though I still am going to have to pay for lessons.

God help us women drivers next year when the equality act comes in though!!

Vicxas

Well done OP, i quite vividly remember my first insurance was 2.5k so congrats!

rocky112

eggineer wrote: »

After ringing around and trying to get a good 20 different quotes ( I didnt know there were that many brokers in Ireland!) I managed to find my cheapest insurance, as one earlier poster said, Aviva really is the best.
I managed to get insured with my mom as the main driver and me as named driver for €770 on a 1.1L. Delighted, even though I still am going to have to pay for lessons.

God help us women drivers next year when the equality act comes in though!!

Ya its really best to get insured with your mom's car insurance policy as the main driver and you as named driver. And Aviva is best and cheapest around €770 on 1.1L you can also go for companies which provide a black box as a part of the insurance policy which is really very helpful.

sarahcoles30

sarahcoles30 wrote: »

You mean to say churchill ?

I imagine he means chill.ie, like he typed :pac:

ondeball

Try bestquote.ie - they did a lot of looking around for me when I was working in a job that meant higher premiums and they even advised me that, due to the fact I wasn't using my car for work, I could use a different description and I save €400.

Bit of advice on here as well: http://www.irishtimes.com/money/car-insurance/