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LY 200
Theres nothing wrong with 'affordable' loans so long as it doesnt take over your life and you have money for a life outside a car imo! People like nice things and as said earlier on in the thread have fun whilst your young so if you can do it why not!? :S
Its no different to being in debt with a house for the next 25/30 years!
Keep saving that 2k for the next few years by all means but FACT is you dont know whats likely to happen tomorrow letalone by the time you have saved for what your aiming for! Cant take it with you my friend!
p.s Louis, if you could earn £400 a day being a tree surgeon why the funk did you give it up!? Sounds like easy(ish) wonga to me! lol
LY 200
Unless they are on upwards of 30k a year thats still a hell of alot to save in just three years worth of work tbh mate considering all the stuff you want to do when you turn 18 (or at least i did)!
I have always earned a fairly good salary for my age with no travel expence but found it hard to save multiple thousands personally due to other stuff going on.
I think very few people at 18 will be saving thousands a year.
I used to spend every penny! Lol.
I'm not knocking the people who are bought them or given a mass handout as long as they don't have an attitude to go with it, but I think there are far more important things at 18 than a posh car.
I'd hate to have been at the stage where your mates ask if you're coming out but you can't because you have to pay for your insurance which is thousands or it needs a big service etc.
Plenty of time for posh cars. Being young is for having fun.
I used to spend every penny! Lol.
I'm not knocking the people who are bought them or given a mass handout as long as they don't have an attitude to go with it, but I think there are far more important things at 18 than a posh car.
I'd hate to have been at the stage where your mates ask if you're coming out but you can't because you have to pay for your insurance which is thousands or it needs a big service etc.
Plenty of time for posh cars. Being young is for having fun.
Mini Cooper S
£400 a month for me to save would be easy. I'm not on £30k+ either.
Mini Cooper S
^Then it would be just as easy to put into a personal loan over the next 3 years!
That was my point.
It's being ploughed into daddy's loan
200
It's being ploughed into daddy's loan
better then his c**k
Waitey
ClioSport Club Member
Alpina D3, AC Cobra
I must have a deaf car.
Keep telling it to do 200 mph
Sometimes a bit of power will wrap you round a tree (Especially some of the older TVRs)
If I saw a 19 year old in a TVR I'd keep well out of his way as it would only be a matter of time
Completely agree, those tvr's are to fast to drive around a bend and come through the other side unscathed especially with a 19yr old at the wheel
LOL when i was 19 i had a 260bhp MX-5 and it was far more dangerous that the TVR is!
I made it past 21 unscathed in the TVR.
LY 200
And this is another point proven! lol
I think i was out Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and on at least one lads holiday a year up until 21! That lot doesnt stand you in good stead for easy saving! This is when people end up with loans and imo if they can pay them back at a steady rate alongside having fun then why not!?
As said earlier all depends on your prioritys and how important a car is to your life as to whether you want to save or put most of your money into one.
Dont get me wrong, a thurday night out which is cheap student night where i am, then a friday/saturday in birmingham which wouldnt be cheap. A holiday a year, dont forget the gym that i go to as well. It's working hard for what you want.
Been there done that, got the t-shirt not as much money in it as i thought there would be. I'm a pimp now instead
Whos the middle men then? who did you go direct to?
RB 197 fatty
had a 1.0 nova saloon as my first car at 17 which was older than me, that blew up
Then got myself a brand new 1.2 clio extreme at 18, that just fell in a ditch one day
Then got another one, but in a new colour, that got boring after 2 years
So i got myself a 197 at 20, and thats still with me now 3 years on at 23
...and my insurance now is as much as it was when i was 17 in the nova, but half as much as it was when i was 18 with my second 1.2clio after the other one only lasted 320 miles from factory.
...ups and downs, you live and learn. all that stuff. Id say i finished on an up!
Then got myself a brand new 1.2 clio extreme at 18, that just fell in a ditch one day
Then got another one, but in a new colour, that got boring after 2 years
So i got myself a 197 at 20, and thats still with me now 3 years on at 23
...and my insurance now is as much as it was when i was 17 in the nova, but half as much as it was when i was 18 with my second 1.2clio after the other one only lasted 320 miles from factory.
...ups and downs, you live and learn. all that stuff. Id say i finished on an up!
R27, Deep Black
To be honest, when i was 17 i bought myself a new 1.2 Campus Sport in 2006 and then worked my arse off from when i was 18 until i was just newly 19 and bought my 197.
If you work hard, you get rewards.
If you work hard, you get rewards.
ph 2, 172.
where'd you hear that?
let me know via pm if needs be.. jus a friend of mine thats all.
lbrench
ClioSport Club Member
F250 6.7 / VW GLI.
19, clio 200 with slight damage :dead:
its nothing serious at all, just a few scratches on the rear arch, was in very heavy fog going down a country road, not going fast at all, wasnt really paying attention a corner suddnely went sharp, i put the brakes on (i know big mistake but i panicked like any of you would and if you say you wouldnt panic then your full of sh*t because you cant say that until its actually happened to you) back end came round and i ended up parallel with the barrier at this point i hadnt touched it then i put the power down to pull away from it and herd a 'schhh' noise and realised i scuffed the arch. goes into the body shop on the 8th of march for the re spray/blend and to get my badges, bullets and handles black.....
it wasnt enything serious but could of been 10 times worse and its not like i was 'hero driving' either
lynden,
p.s i have pics if u want them?
its nothing serious at all, just a few scratches on the rear arch, was in very heavy fog going down a country road, not going fast at all, wasnt really paying attention a corner suddnely went sharp, i put the brakes on (i know big mistake but i panicked like any of you would and if you say you wouldnt panic then your full of sh*t because you cant say that until its actually happened to you) back end came round and i ended up parallel with the barrier at this point i hadnt touched it then i put the power down to pull away from it and herd a 'schhh' noise and realised i scuffed the arch. goes into the body shop on the 8th of march for the re spray/blend and to get my badges, bullets and handles black.....
it wasnt enything serious but could of been 10 times worse and its not like i was 'hero driving' either
lynden,
p.s i have pics if u want them?
