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[Bungle]

good luck and i hope you get on the road soon

[Lund]

good luck and i hope you get on the road soon

Cheers Bungle, I've bought the insurance now, unsure about the amount of mileage i will cover anuualy, but you can always amend that right?

Went with Liverpool Victoria in the end.

For non standard alloys and exhaust changes the price came to roughly £1600 , you know what boosted up the price a great deal? The arches. They don't like bodywork modifications - if only they could see the Mini for what it really is Bodywork modifications gets classed as 'bodywork/bodykit mods' even though it isnt a bodykit. So with everything declared, it got to about £1800.

However, with having a family member insured with LV, you get a huge discount. My brother is with LV, and therefore because someone in the family is already insured with LV, i got about £80 discount which isnt bad at all is it!?

Ok, dropping the price even more so, for some reason (God knows why) it helped to add my dad to my insurance. But he is the named driver, I hold the insurance and am the proposer. So that dropped the price abit too.

End price, well... £1730. rounded up. - Not too bad?

Well compared to what I've had. I am very pleased with this quote. Which seems very odd really concidering the amount of it!

Tom

[Bungle]

ouch

at least you can enjoy it now

[minipete]

Great stuff,you`ll be hitting the road then?

[mad4mins]

yeah i heard putting you mum as a named driver in you first year was the best thing to save money!

glad you got it sorted.. at least you can enjoy your car now...

[ab54666]

Can't believe the price of insurance for you young guys /girls these days.

I had almost the exact same car as yours when i was 18 (ok, that was about 16 years ago!) Fully comp was about £300 TPF&T about £230!

[Sam Walters]

Car Insurance Quotes!! £1767.24 - £1953.27 - £2025.00

Its a 1979 Leyland Mini 850 for God sakes! That was done using the quick quote features on some websites Liverpool Victoria being one of them! That was without declaring mods! Which I will declare when i come to insure my mini

490 for a 17 year old on a provisional, where are you going wrong!

[Lund]

Just taxed it! Driving it about, theres nothing on the clutch, needs adjusting i think. Keeps crunching or just not going into any gears even with the clutch fully depressed. Having to pump it loads, dropping revs off and then seeing if it will go into gear

Edited by Lund, 10 December 2007 - 04:22 PM.

[Lund]

...Found the problem!

No clutch fluid in the resevoir! ...and I wondered why it crunched every gear!?

[Lund]

I really need to have a look at the heater. Its blowing cold air! Its been fully re-conditioned. New parts and paint etc...


And yes heater cable and valve is fully pressed in.

Think I have an air lock, will try bleed the system a little and run it with the cap off.

Edited by Lund, 12 December 2007 - 06:09 PM.

[david_godfrey]

Nice Mini. Representing the Wirral Massive

[Lund]

[Bungle]

looks great

[Lund]

Changed the clucth slave cylinder as it was leaking and giving me 'rough' gear changes. All is good now, gear changed are a dream and she seems to be running well. Had a problem with the starter motor bendix sticking, but all seems to be okay now! I've only covered about 200 miles and already i'm after more power, but insurance wont permit

Fixing starter motor:



Slave cylinder:



Out n about:







Hope you like

Edited by Lund, 30 January 2008 - 12:51 PM.

[Bungle]

drive safe and clock up that no claims discount then go for more power