I have £approz. 5.5k to spend on a nissan zx my insurance aint to bad cause i'm 33. so can anyone advise me of waht 300zx would be best and waht to look out for?

Where did you go for insurance - I've trawled the place and can do no better than £1900 with NU direct? Although I only have 1 years bonus????

 

Hi Diane and Peasey and welcome to the forum.

 

We are always talking about insurance, click on search, you'll find loads of posts some have no's of insurance companies.

 

Good luck.

Similar age but I've just been quoted £1900 by NU Direct after trawling the place!!! Only 1 yrs bonus though - where you getting your insurance from?

Thanks - tried all the ones you mention, best I could get was £1900, just have to grin & bear it!!!

 

This site is great!

Greetings to the new people! This forum has gone from 415 at the beginning of the week to 436 today...

 

If you look in the forum entitleed Price Checks there is an Insurance post in that.

 

Personally I am with Bell Direct

Female

27

FC

Protected, Full NCD

12,000

1993 UK Spec TT

1988 Mark 2 MR2 as second car

and all for the princely sum of £583.

 

Hope you get a better deal soon!

 

Cheers

Anita.

 

 

Have said welcome to Di already but welcome to Peasey

 

Just remember that imports are a fair bit more to insure in the current climate than UK spec cars. Once you start bolting bits on it gets a whole lot worse and harder to get insured...just keep that in mind

Hello to you all - I'm recognising names and getting used to you all slowly. Very reasurring this site, help on tap!

 

Why do Bell Direct vary so much? I mean they wanted £2,500 for me & Mark both over 30. Although they did say if it were a uk spec that would shave £700 off the cost....

 

I have 3 mods but nothing drastic. Suppose it evens out UK spec harder to find and more expensive to buy but cheaper insurance/ Jap spec cheaper to buy, easier to get but the insurance is more.

 

Sure its worth it in the end - tell you Saturday when we pick him up!

I am with Priviledge - quite a good quote, and Admiral will insure an import too. Try Adrian Flux as they may be OK....I have an import and know only too well the problems. Good luck.

Welcome all.

 

Barclays and Barclaycard are both doing pretty good quotes on imports, they do modified aswell.

 

Peasey, take a look through the buyers guide in the tech section over there

 

HTH

Martin

 

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Admiral are OK for imports at the moment, but they don't seem to like mods for new customers. I'm 37 or 38, well somewhere around that area anyway (!) and it costs me £640 for my '92 TT import (+ a small-ish loading for mods)

Peasy

 

...I'm not supposed to say this, but buy a Jap na. If you are into power, ignore what I'm going to say. If you want a great all round car buy a na - Jap cos its the only way, and the car will not have suffered our winters and salt etc. With the na you don't have to worry about the power killing the box or clutch, no Hicas to worry about, no diff cooler, no turbo seals, no real upgrade path always taking your money, no heat under the bonnet knackering all the electrics, and no nightmare plumbing. What you do get is the one of the greatest looking car on the road, rarity value - no one know what it is, 30mpg, great build quality, ace to drive, built to withstand 2 turbos, so should be robust, and the roof, and all the other stuff. It's a great package that can be used every day at the running costs of billions of mundane motors. Also, without mentioning my age, I pay £365 fully comp 2 drivers and business use, 12k mikes pa. I did 15k last year in it, and it still glides round the M25 quicker and smoother than anything else I've ever owned.

 

good luck

More info for first time buyers here:

http://home.cfl.rr.com/fairladyz/faq.html

 

 

Hi,

I agree, if you don't need the power then the non-turbo car is a great car!

You can still burn off most cars on the road, with a unstressed 250bhp.I know that many of the Guys on here prefer the extra TT power, but if you're on a tight budget then a manual NA short wheel base 2 seater makes a lot of sense.

JEZ