it’s your car now, not the bank’s. so you can reduce your coverage and lower your premiums. the higher rates are to make sure the insurance company doesn’t lower their profits when you drop the ‘full’ coverage.
Yeah. Between this and the “switch providers” advice I will be looking at it. I am not sure I want to reduce my coverage though. Where I live people are absolutely batshit. I know everyone says this…but I’ve never felt more in danger driving than I do in Connecticut, surrounded by people rich enough to murder me with their car and think of it as an inconvenience.
Yeah, it’s crazy what people do with insurance. We have a really odd car insurance plan. We just have a single mid-2000s Carola as our only vehicle. So we don’t bother with full coverage. If the car gets totaled, oh well, we’re out a few thousand. But what we do go all out in is the liability policy. I’m not worried about the 20 year old Toyota. I’m worried about losing our life savings if I cause an accident and end up putting someone in a wheelchair for life. So we buy the largest liability coverage we can, and then we have a million dollar umbrella policy on top of that.
To me this seems the only sane way to do it. Not only do I want to make sure I’m not financially destroyed if I cause a big accident, but also, just from basic compassion, I want to make sure that anyone I might hurt is well taken care of.
it’s your car now, not the bank’s. so you can reduce your coverage and lower your premiums. the higher rates are to make sure the insurance company doesn’t lower their profits when you drop the ‘full’ coverage.
Yeah. Between this and the “switch providers” advice I will be looking at it. I am not sure I want to reduce my coverage though. Where I live people are absolutely batshit. I know everyone says this…but I’ve never felt more in danger driving than I do in Connecticut, surrounded by people rich enough to murder me with their car and think of it as an inconvenience.
Yeah, it’s crazy what people do with insurance. We have a really odd car insurance plan. We just have a single mid-2000s Carola as our only vehicle. So we don’t bother with full coverage. If the car gets totaled, oh well, we’re out a few thousand. But what we do go all out in is the liability policy. I’m not worried about the 20 year old Toyota. I’m worried about losing our life savings if I cause an accident and end up putting someone in a wheelchair for life. So we buy the largest liability coverage we can, and then we have a million dollar umbrella policy on top of that.
To me this seems the only sane way to do it. Not only do I want to make sure I’m not financially destroyed if I cause a big accident, but also, just from basic compassion, I want to make sure that anyone I might hurt is well taken care of.