Driving Before 17

[Hecktix]

Oh you're on a provisional, that's why.

[Slowpoke]

I only have to pay another £100 though when I pass.

[Grippz]

owot at your insurance?! wots going on lolol hmmmm im being ripped off :-(

[Slowpoke]

Most of my mates had to pay in between £1200-£1500 for their first year of insurance.

[tdi]

If people try to help, they should at least research what they are saying properly before they post.

You are not allowed to drive a car or a moped more than 50cc until you are 17. In some instances, you are allowed to drive from 16 if you are a carer for someone with a disability.. NOT if you are disabled yourself. You are also allowed to drive farm vehicles at 16, but I have no idea how this works, what the engine sizes etc are for this.. and I think you actually need to live on a farm.

You can apply for your driving license 3 months before your 16th birthday. You will recieve your plastic and counterpart license through the post but this WILL NOT allow you to drive a car at 16. This will allow you to drive a moped up to 50cc providing you pass your CBT. (You cannot legally drive until you have passed it.)
You can then drive a car as soon as you are 17, providing the vehicle you're driving is taxed and insured.

On the subject of insurance.. the cheapest way to get it is insure it in your parents name with you as a named driver. However, if you put your parent as the main driver, and you are the main user, this is classed as Insurance Fronting and can be classed as fraud. If you are found out, your insurance can be cancelled with immediate effect and if it becomes apparent at the scene of a crash, the insurance can be cancelled and treated as if it never existed.. You'll be legible to pay the fees yourself, and in extreme cases, can be done for no insurance.
If you are a named driver on the policy, you can not be the registered keeper of the vehicle, the named driver must be down as the registered keeper on the V5 (Registration Certificate) - it asks you to specify the registered keeper when applying for a policy.

For the record, my insurance is £1700 on a VW Bora 1.9 TDI PD 130.

[scott]

I got a Ford Fiesta Lx, T reg, 1.3, spoiler, alloy wheels. I'm the car owner and all that crap and my insurance was only £803. I'm 17 and it's with Quinn Direct or something like that.

That's who i've got my insurance with, it was just under £3000 though lol

And yh as others have said you're just best to wait till you're 17

[Black_Apalachi]

No there is no minimum requirement of lessons (yet) but as people have said, unless you want to pick up loads of bad habits then it's best to only spend a little bit of time on private land just to get the hang of actually operating the car.

I did this and I already had tons of bad habits just from watching my dad drive all my life. I ended up having about 20 lessons before I went away to uni then when I came home at Christmas time I think I crammed 10 into a week right before my test and passed first time.

I think the only thing you can do before you reach legal driving age, is get a moped but they're a major waste of money imo (then again, so is a car really ).

As for insurance, mine was about £1200 which seemed great, but they essentially gave me 50 quid when I wrote off my car.. and I still have to see out the whole year of insurance (another 6 months) so it's a load of ********.