The Irish Mitsubishi FTO Owners Club

Hello all

I guess I am the virgin of the pack. Just bought a 94 GR. Fell in love and as I am 42 and nearing mid life crisis, it was a sports car or an affair! Can't fault the hubby and I need him anyway to go on his car Insurance!!So far nobody will give us a quote and we are waiting a reply from St.Pauls. We have 7+yrs NCB, clean full Irish licences, any ideas anybody?

give our offfice a bell, 01-4557955, we'll get you one no problems.

silsder wrote:Hello all

I guess I am the virgin of the pack. Just bought a 94 GR. Fell in love

Welcome to the group

Daz...

Welcome Silsder, hope you get the insurance sorted out soon, you won't regret your purchase .

JD

Hello there,
thanks for the welcome and help lads. Getting a few quotes back, €1198 Fully comp on hubbys insurance but have now decided to get my own insurance for first time( guess i picked the wrong car eh?) and was quoted €1,521 fully comp or tpft €1,423 is that bad?

By the way JD good news, you are no longer the elder lemon!! The above mentioned hubby is 45

If he has his own car try swapping insurances and seeing if the combined total is much different. You should each be able to get some married joint insurances so you'll be insured in both. But you insuring his might be cheaper than insuring the fto. He insures the fto then.

Thanks Ivan E

But we turning the other car into a Taxi and as you can imagine he needs all of his NCB for that.

Sils

did you get a quote from our office?

I did thanks Dave,
But is was €2,390 Fc. which was €869 dearer.





Sils

that sounds like a lot, we would have the same markets as everyone else and if that was with StPaul i can't understand why it would be so much more expensive unless someone got your details wrong in here, if you want you can email me directly and i could get you a quote again with the right info.

Thanks Dave will do soon



Sils

Dave,
That quote was from ARB, and we got things sorted.
Thank for help.








Sils

no problem, still don;t know why we came in so much more expensive. the same rates are applied to each brokerage, ah well.
happy motoring!!

silsder wrote:Hello there,
thanks for the welcome and help lads. Getting a few quotes back, €1198 Fully comp on hubbys insurance but have now decided to get my own insurance for first time( guess i picked the wrong car eh?) and was quoted €1,521 fully comp or tpft €1,423 is that bad?

By the way JD good news, you are no longer the elder lemon!! The above mentioned hubby is 45

Those quotes are semi-OK given your NCB and age. As a matter of interest, who did you get them from ?

Hi again,
When I got the FTO last summer Allianze (who I was with in my old car) quoted me around 1,550 fully comp for myself and my wife and all the trimmings - I took it 'cause I didn't want to change from them at the time.

I rang them before my renewal this year and told them I was going elswhere and wanted a statement of my no claims bonus (they didn't seem to care on the phone), and sent me the details of my NCB, but when I got my renewal a couple of weeks later it was reduced it to 1,060. (which was the exact same quote I got from another company in the meantime - can't remember who it was but I got it through Dave's agency - thanks Dave ) so I stuck with Allianze.

Anyway, nice to know I'm noilonger the OAP in here anymore - I thought only youngfellows bought fto's

JD

First time out today, hope somebody bloody well spotted me!!
Does it count if I spotted my reflection in large window in Swords!!
We thought our Camry 2.2 was fast, but the FTO sure has some poke.
Hubby's best quote was St.Pauls
My . best quote was insure.ie (did online) €1521 FC with over 10 years as named driver.
I can leave him now that I have my own insurance.!
Its bye bye "Driving Miss Daisy", and hello "The fast and the furious".
I call my fto "Diana Ross" because its beautiful long and black and does not liked to be searched.

Sils

JD wrote:I thought only youngfellows bought fto's

Its not just youngflas JD, youngones buy them as well
As I said before, when it comes to FTO ownership, age goes out the window, its good to see the...how do I say this...'non youngflas and youngones' taking pride in their cars and caring enough about them to get on a forum like this and talk about them.

silsder wrote:Its bye bye "Driving Miss Daisy", and hello "The fast and the furious".

Sils, you won't know yourself in the FTO, its a crackin' car in terms of looks and performance and you just can't beat it when it comes to the price. I know I'm not alone here, but the amount of people that complement me on the car is unreal, I have never come across a car that gets as much attention as a 10 year old car like the FTO (OK maybe Supras, but thats it )

Good luck with it!

CJ

Jd,
not trying to nab business or anything but if you put your policy with us, we would do that at every renewal and get a reduced premium every year. i know the big companies only see people as a number if you knwo what i mean. basically whatever quotes you can get especially from the big companies we can match or more than likely reduce plus we shop around to make sure your getting the best possible.

(that was a serious plug alright )

dave

Dave wrote:Jd,
not trying to nab business or anything but if you put your policy with us, we would do that at every renewal and get a reduced premium every year. i know the big companies only see people as a number if you knwo what i mean. basically whatever quotes you can get especially from the big companies we can match or more than likely reduce plus we shop around to make sure your getting the best possible.

(that was a serious plug alright )

dave

My renewal is up in August and I think you just convinced me to try you guys for a quote

CJ wrote:
Sils, you won't know yourself in the FTO, its a crackin' car in terms of looks and performance and you just can't beat it when it comes to the price. I know I'm not alone here, but the amount of people that complement me on the car is unreal, I have never come across a car that gets as much attention as a 10 year old car like the FTO
Good luck with it!

CJ

funny you should say that - after you left last night a punto on L plates with 5 young lads in it pulled up beside me as I waited to get on the roundabout - down came the window and one of them wanted to know if I'd swop.... then they started ranting on about what a great car the FTO is.... suffice to say I floored it onto the roundabout and down towards tempelogue to give them a taste of the crakcing FTO v6.

shane wrote: down came the window and one of them wanted to know if I'd swop....

I'm surprised they knew what it was, the dirt of the thing!

OK, I'll stop now

CJ

CJ wrote:

shane wrote: down came the window and one of them wanted to know if I'd swop....

I'm surprised they knew what it was, the dirt of the thing!

OK, I'll stop now

CJ

hehe, maybe they were actually arguing over what kind of car it was...... seriously though, you're right and I've no excuse other than being lazy. I wonder how much faster I'll be going after the 50Kg of dirt comes off the car.....

CJ wrote:

JD wrote:I thought only youngfellows bought fto's

Hey, am I the only one who knows that FTO means Females Taking Over!



Sils

yehhh i'm 41 on the 25may, reckon i have another few years before i can't bend to get into my fto. i'll just have to stay in it then !

ronbyrne wrote: reckon i have another few years before i can't bend to get into my fto. i'll just have to stay in it then !

I can second that, I regulary see you horsing around D15 in the early morn, arthritis you don't have
CJ