Any young drivers with a ford transit or similar van? Korn??

Sparks! · Sir Tart-a-lot Joined: 30 Aug 2003 Karma :

Anyone around 20 years old with no NCB driving a Ford Transit or similar?? How much do you pay insurance?? Or is it impossible to get for young drivers??

Van is for personal use only, no commerical. Will prob just be a basic transit, around 1996, SWB standard roof etc.. (not lwb or high top etc) and prob only worth a grand max..

I have no NCB for car and 1 accident claim.

I know korn has a transit and is similar age/driving experience, how much do you pay??

cagiva gezzer · World Chat Champion Joined: 17 Mar 2003 Karma :

In a 1.9D berlingo van with work. I hold the record for the most expensive insurance policy on the company. Held the licence for less than a year, and afaik it was over £1.5 k for the policy with a huge excess.

They won’t tell me just how much it was. Think that’s to scare me into looking after it….

Could be useful
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Cillit-BANG · World Chat Champion Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Karma :

When I was 23, 0 ncd, VW Transporter bought for £1000, I paid £900 tpft with Direct Choice.

Commercial vehicles are expensive to insure, but then anything at your age with 0 no claims will be. I think it may have something to do with the huge amounts of them that are stolen for their contents ie. £2-5K worth of power-tools that most tradesmen carry.

I now pay about £400 fully comp on a X-reg Transporter, 3 years later with no claims.

Ant · World Chat Champion Joined: 24 Feb 2003 Karma :

i pay £600 for my transit (2002 swb) thats at 23 with full no claims but with 12 points!
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Sparks! · Sir Tart-a-lot Joined: 30 Aug 2003 Karma :

Korn · Admin Joined: 01 Feb 2002 Karma :

Sparks! · Sir Tart-a-lot Joined: 30 Aug 2003 Karma :

Thanks Korn, I just done a quote on Tesco and it come to £1500 TPF&T which by time I do some ringing around etc should be down to about £1000 which is reasonable enough I reckon.. I pay £1000 for my 2ltr turbo diesel peugeot now so won't be much different really.. so looks like I'll deffo be getting a van!! Just need to sell the pug.. hmm

garth · World Chat Champion Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Karma :

would it be worth phoning up your existing insurance company, and asking how much of a premium it would be to transfer the insurance over? Karma

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Cillit-BANG · World Chat Champion Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Karma :

You may find insurance gets cheaper as the van gets newer and more difficult to steal.

Mine went down by nearly £400 from an old J-plate to an X-plate.

Out of interest are you swapping from a car to a transit because you need to or because you want to?

After 3-4 years in a van I can definately say I would much prefer to run a car if I could, and just hire 1 for the times when it's needed.

Sparks! · Sir Tart-a-lot Joined: 30 Aug 2003 Karma :

mrchips · World Chat Champion Joined: 05 Mar 2004 Karma :

In work they tried to get me insured on the vans, 00 lwb transit and 97 swb transit, no one would touch me at all.
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