Drive it immediately...

Dont tempt me... i'm not even sure I can aford £150 to insure it right now... I think i've pretty much emptied my banck acount as it is!

Any one know if Admiral are open tomorrow? if i phone them I can get them to switch my car insurance which should only be an extra £500, might be easier then Noel Dazley, possibly worth the extra £150?

Damn it, i';m ttoo tired to think about all this right now, i've been up since 5am working on that god-forsaken ashtray! *rants*

They'll be open. Still drive it though, regardless.

Lol. I would imagine that Admiral will still take your money now.

Admiral would, you're right. God they're awful. Shameless, even in motor insurance world...

*reaches for phone*

hmm.. admirals opening hours are saturday 10am to 5pm and sunday 10am to 4 pm....

I'm going to phone them 10am tomorrow!

Fine, but don't expect them to be anything other than difficult if you ever claim!......

I'd go pretty much anywhere else than them. It ain't all down to price, you know (without wishing to sound condescending).

Failed there then!

nice one bud, catch you soon. silver is my fav colour on a coupe

Dude, you can be as conderscending-sounding as you like, if you feel that stronly about somethihng then just let it all out! but I'll heed your advice but i doubt it'll be enough to counteract the power of the coop compelling me to drive her!

I need to stradle her with a firm gripp of the gear stick and unleash this bestia di sesso!!

I work in Lloyds. Admiral are, erm, well known.

If you can't wait a day or two, get down to Halfords, load up on around 50 quid-so of stuff, and give her some luvvin....

I like that idea :3 i think i'll spend the whole day with her tomorrow, probably just sitting in her trying to get used to her comfyness ^_^

the coop interior is nicer than my living room, all i need is a computer in there so i can be on the forums and i think I'll start living in there!

God, and I thought I was smitten!....

Play them off against each other and go with the place that offers you the cheapest quote

Don't worry about anything else until you need them.

Yeah, and when you claim?.....

Admiral avoid claims like you would not believe.

Moral of the story? Just never claim, I guess.

I best shut up, soon!

I worry about that when it happens.

I figure they're all as bad as each other. Some are worse than others admittedly - but most years you shell out money and don't need em.

I like ringing around and getting the best deal whatever I do, make em work for their £500 I say.

Last few years I've got it cheaper than the year before, but may be different this time cos we've moved and the postcode ain't as good as it was last year :(.

I like that philosophy, prevention is better then cure i guess... the trick is how not to claim, the way i see it there are two options;

1. Drive carfully and sencibly keeping to all speed limits, slowing down when road conditions decline and being focused and ataintive at all times.

2. Carry a bat in the boot so that if you do hit any one you can bludgen them and dump their body in a local river.

As for bad uns, Endsleigh's the one I'd recommend to stay clear of, IMHO.

Have you tried Greenlight or Noel Dazely? Both tend to be good with Coops

To be honest, I don't blame you at all. The "value" they attach to loyal (ie, more than 2 years) customers is a joke, all things considered......

The margins on motor insurance are hilariously thin. None of them, without exception, make an underwriting profit. The money they make is all down to return on investment.

[quote=Solouko2. Carry a bat in the boot so that if you do hit any one you can bludgen them and dump their body in a local river.[/quote]

PMSL

I've got my best quote off ND so far of £1050 and if i can resist the temptations of the coupe untill monday i'll accept it!! greenlight were um... not-so-good, quoting over double that x_x

but I'm very suprised how insurers have percieve my infomation that I've given them, several have asked what cars I've earned my no claims bonus on and because they've been low powered 'sencible'/boreing motors some have said;

"he's a sencible fellow we can trust him with 220BHP"

and other have said,

"he's not got any experiance behind the wheel of a powerfull car, he'll kill himslef before we can stick a stamp on his documents!"

[quote=Solouko"he's a sencible fellow we can trust him with 220BHP"

[/quote]

No-one has/will ever say that about you mate - and you can insert whatever figure where the 220 is - makes not a jot of diference
Congrats on your purchase - DONT DRIVE IT UNTIL YOU ARE INSURED - clean it and polish it, black the tyres, autosol, the rocker cover, back to black the induction, look at it, photograph it, love it...................................
and then be gutted its not Broom Yellow - Ha!!

I wasn't planing on driving it untill I was insured... I'm eager, not stupid! but i will admit... I am slightly disapointed it's not yellow, 'tis a gorgious colour, maybe I'll save up for a respray... sell a kidney or something. For the time being, going over it once again checking what works and what needs replacing (exhauust manifold, front disks ect.. ) might be an idea then double check the fluids! And why did you tell Gi to use halfords own brand fully synthetic in it, I'm having trouble believing that stuff's going to be benificial to any engine or even provide lubrication!

I mean any true engineer sould enjoy the chance of working on this car Im a engineer myself not engines wise telecoms I do but handy with spanner! . Its a piece of ART bodywork wise. The engine is far more tunable than the current (hot hatch variant astra vxr which is 237bhp but 4clynd) 20vT is 5clynd far more tunable bhp wise not even to mentoin trq figures as that would just be imbarssing. sorry for spelling guys lol
oh bhy the way c2gt remap specialists are angeltuning.co.uk after speaking to the guy taking my 1.6 16v from 110bhp to 122bhp said a remap on the 20vt would be 270bhp from 220bhp was quite impresed actually thinking of buying another 20vt as track car again? especially with £500 giving 50bhp?

I presume you've tried sticking your mum/sister/granny on the policy to bring the price down (assuming they can drive and have a decent driving history)?

I made a big claim with Elephant and they were fine in paying out...maybe I was lucky

I must admit, once i've got the insurance paid out, and the car up to scratch i'm first going to look at lengthening the life of the car, pissibly iol cool (if it doesnt already have one) turbo timer and just checking to see what's rusting and replace it (bolts, nuts and anything around the suspension) and THEN i'm going to start tuning it, and having already taken my friends 1.6 mitsubishi from 98BHP to 200+ I'm really going to embrace up-rating and up-grading a car that's so much more felxable and quite high performance to begine with.

But I think I might be looking at a second car so that i can still have a runabout while I'm doing any major jobs on the coop.

BTW, I've not got anyone who I can add as a second driver, Mum's not driven since the 60s, both sisters have disapeared off the face of the earth (hopfully perminantly) and I'm glad to say I have no other imediate family well I probably do, but I'm going to pretend they dont exist and sit in a corner with me fingers in my ears going "la la la la la"

Jackal - you could put me as a named driver - I wouldn't mind keeping my hand in, coupe wise

You've obv. not been taking those spelling lessons I told you about have you?

Are you gonna do the manifold yourself, or are you getting someone to do it for you?

well i'm going to try and do it myself, its no harder then taking an engine out of a normal car... i shouldt think.

what's to say putting you on my insurance would make it any cheeper? how many points have you got now??? at least you'll struggle getting any more in the superzuki! but saying that you are getting on a bit... in terms of maturity you must be pushing 12 by now!

And as for the spelling, what can I say, I can't be gorgious, sexual AND inteleignet, that would just be greedy! God has to make compromises somewhere along the lines when he make people as perfect as 'the jackal' :3

WRONG !!!!!!
You'll need a gasket kit - main dealer in wrexham will do it for about £20 - you'll need some coolant, as you'll have to take the rad out - might as well do a complete coolant flush while you're there and you'll also need to get your aircon re-gassed after you've broke into the system to get the old manifold out. Give me a shout when you're doing it and I'll try and get over.
You're dangerously close to the turbo there - not tempted to dump a hybrid in while you're in the area?

oh expleative!

well i was planing on changing all the fluids at some pont anyway, especialy the coolant, just in case somone's been topping it up with 'just water' insted of anti corrosion coolant, manky rusty engine blocks cant be a good thing on a coupe. if de-ionised water with anti corrosion fluid is good enough from ym computer it's good enough for the coupe, the coupes cost almost DOUBLE the comp

and if i'm going to do it i might as well do it right.

as for the turbo... it would be a shame to do nothing to the turbo when it's pretty much half out anyway.... and yes, as soon as i do it i'll give you a tinkle on the old dog 'n' bone and you can stand around telling me how badly i'm doing

have you given Gi the manifold yet because if not i dont mind coming to pick it up... any excuse to drive the coupe at the moment is very much welcomed.

yeah mate - I dropped the manifold at your work on sat. morning - it'll be waiting for you on monday morning!