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I had planned on getting some Rota Grids (standard not drift) in bronze but a guy near me put these up for sale and I'd fancied a set of blue wheels ever since I saw the Spoon wheels. Plus I got these for less than half what it would have cost for Rotas.

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rota grid/drift looks good on just about anything. my ideal next car is a white blobeye impreza STI with bronze drifts.

 

thought about splitting the lights open and doing all the chrome bits black? the bright silver lights look a wee bit odd with the overall dark colour scheme.

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Agreed, I do love my Civic. I just wish my Insurance company would let me have the 2.0!

Have you tried some of the specialist companies like Adrian flux? When I got mine last year the cheapest quote I could get from the big name insurers and compare sites was £1200. With the companies I've seen on various Civic forums I've had quotes as low as £700. Hopefully I'll still get quotes around that figure when my insurance is up for renewal.

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Have you tried some of the specialist companies like Adrian flux? When I got mine last year the cheapest quote I could get from the big name insurers and compare sites was £1200. With the companies I've seen on various Civic forums I've had quotes as low as £700. Hopefully I'll still get quotes around that figure when my insurance is up for renewal.

Cheapest I can get at the moment it £5000, I pay £2400 for my Civic Sport :'(

 

oh life is good living in the sticks :D

1.8 astra SRI, mods declared, cost me about £700 last year. out of interest i put in my details (birthday moved forward a few months to make me 21) for a newage impreza STI and got a quote for just over a grand :D

 

so just over £1K for a 21 year old to insure a 300bhp, rally bred monster with a reputation for being driven by hooligans... how good is that!?

 

edit: mainstream insurers too, admiral were the cheapest IIRC, followed by elephant (who i'm currently insured with)

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oh life is good living in the sticks :D

1.8 astra SRI, mods declared, cost me about £700 last year. out of interest i put in my details (birthday moved forward a few months to make me 21) for a newage impreza STI and got a quote for just over a grand :D

 

so just over £1K for a 21 year old to insure a 300bhp, rally bred monster with a reputation for being driven by hooligans... how good is that!?

 

edit: mainstream insurers too, admiral were the cheapest IIRC, followed by elephant (who i'm currently insured with)

It seems everyone can get insured on rally monsters apart from me. My old boss got an Evo 8 FQ300 when I got my Civic and I checked the insurance on that and the cheapest was £2500, I'm 28 with 7 years ncb as well.

Still better than one of the lads I work with. He's just passed his test and got a quote on the Evo for nearly £9k.

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It seems everyone can get insured on rally monsters apart from me. My old boss got an Evo 8 FQ300 when I got my Civic and I checked the insurance on that and the cheapest was £2500, I'm 28 with 7 years ncb as well.

Still better than one of the lads I work with. He's just passed his test and got a quote on the Evo for nearly £9k.

 

insurance for new drivers is impossible. my cousin's 18 and still getting quotes of £3K+ for an 800cc matiz,1L 3cyl vauxhall agila etc. no matter how underpowered and undesirable the car is he just can't get below 3 grand. the thing i dont understand is that he doesnt live in a rough area either, i'd have thought my village would be worse for insurance what with the massive pikey population and all.

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It's almost as if the insurance companies and the government don't want us to drive or something *puts on tin foil hat*

 

there's little to no sense in insurance. one of my mates bought an imported MR2 GTS turbo with all the usual mods (stainless exhaust, de-cat, HKS BOV, quaife LSD, apexi cone filter, tein coilovers) running 320 BHP and insured it fully comp for £1100. he was 21 at the time, think he had 3 years NCB, worked in the motor trade which probably helped but that's still blooody impressive.

 

that was via elephant too.

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My newer car, 10' W212 E class just after i waxed it.

 

Oh btw it's the 8 Zylinder version, not the daily Berliner taxi cab. :P

 

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Yeah...you guessed right, i wear suits for work and i'm a boring buzinezzman... and my girlfriend is an accountant who drives a diesel bimmer.

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nice Stag, ive got a mk3 spitfire, but im respraying it before selling it, and have replaced it with my new car :

 

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ford capri 2.0S. not been ont eh road for a while so have to service it and i suspect run some kinks out of it, butits very solid, ahs very nice paint, and is all there. it has the interior i want, the 5 speed conversion, the right model, the right colour. and insured it for 170 quid fully comp.

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Talking about insurance, when i was 17 i had a mk3 escort xr3i, insurance quote with my mother as the main driver and her with full NCB was £4675.00!!! that was 13 years ago too!. (lol i actually featured in the Max Power "readers letters" section complaining about it, there was a pic of me standing by the car too, woot on high! - never did claim my free tune up for being in it)

 

My wife used to work for Diamond Car Insurance (part of the admiral group) and she said that statistically the cheapest car to insure is a canary yellow fiat panda. as its a cheap cheap car and the colour stands out,

 

Dont forget that where you live also contributes to insurance prices, e.g a mk2 fiesta insured in a rural area would cost say £350 a year for a 25 yr old male to insure... the same car insured for the same person in a city where car crime is alot higher may cost up to double as there is a higher risk of theft/vansalism etc...

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