Cheap Young Driver Insurance
Reader’s Question:
Is it true that insurance providers offer car insurance discounts for teenager who take a Driver Education course?
Blanche
Los Angeles CA
Insurance providers do give a car insurance discount for young drivers that have taken a driver education class. These insurance providers believe that it is important for new young drivers to take a driver education class if offered by the insurance provider since it is helpful as they learn to drive automobile for the first time.
In some states it is required for the young drivers to take a driver’s education class and that is why no car insurance discount is given to some. Defensive driving class or driver education course are also used by most states in lieu of driving points after receiving an individual receives a traffic offense violation.
Cheap Senior Car Insurance Rate Quotes
Reader question:
I’m reaching retirement age and I know that means that there will be some changes on my auto insurance policy. Can you give me a hint as to what I have coming?
Gilbert
Great question, Gilbert.
Whenever you get to that point where it is time to retire, you reach the point of your car insurance history where you will have the lowest rates ever. This starts when you turn fifty and officially become a part of the car insurance industry’s lowest risk group, those who aren’t quit middle aged but aren’t quite seniors. It will last until you reach sixty five, generally, so enjoy it while you can.
Now that you are of this age, it is true that there are some changes that can be made, and not just in the initial rates. If you are around fifty five, you will be open to discounts marketed specifically for seniors, and as a retired person, you will probably be able to get some kind of car insurance discount through the American Association for Retired People, or AARP. Most car insurance companies will do whatever trey can to help you get better rates, because you are part of their favorite risk group.
If you have a long history of safe driving, you can get extra discounts for this, and you might want to consider taking a defensive driving course through AARP. If you take a course, you could get as much as a fifteen percent discount with some companies, and it couldn’t heart to remind yourself a bit. Another good way to go is to make sure you are doing well healthily. You are reaching the years in which the health states to decline, and getting regular eye and medical exams can help keep car insurance companies confident that you are road safe.
As soon as you turn seventy, though, your rates go up again because of failing health and the statistically greater amount of accidents in this age group. Save your money while you can.
Cheers,
Fashun Guadarrama.
Good Driver Insurance – Do Air Bags Help Lower Rates?
Reader question:
I’m getting a new car and they give you the option to pay extra for side impact air bags. If I do this, will I get cheaper rates on my car insurance premium?
Randy
Probably.
Everything depends on the company, but most car insurance companies will give you safe driver insurance discounts when you add safety features to your car, especially when those features are air bags. You don’t necessarily get more of a discount the more safety features you add, but if you make an effort to diminish the possibilities of extreme damage when or if your car gets into a crash and needs collision coverage, then you are going to get rewarded for it by your company with a car insurance discount.
Some people wonder if we even need side air bags. Every car that comes out on the market is so loaded down with safety features that it’s enough to make people wonder if it makes any sense. Can all of that so called safety really save lives, or is it just a gimmick to sell cars? Accidents still happen right? Right, but less do, and the ones that do cause less damage and injury when there are safety features involved, so this trend will probably continue.
At the beginning of the year, crash tests were performed with cars that did not have side impact air bags and then the same type of car that did, to see what the differences were in the results. It came out that they really do work and can save lives. This is especially important for side impacts, which cause most of the fatalities in accidents because they hit at least one passenger or driver head on. Side impact air bags decreases the possibility of both injury and death, and for that reason car insurance companies are rushing to hand out discounts to anybody with these.
Cheers,
Fashun Guadarrama.
Car Insurance For Good Student Driver With Discounts!
Reader question:
I pay for my teenager’s car insurance, and it is SO expensive! I know that I can’t just not have it, but it is such a pressure to pay that expense every month especially when I have a hard time paying my bills as it is. Is there anything I can do to ease the expense?
Jack
Tell your kid to get a job.
Just kidding. That is one option, though, if you want. But it’s not a definite option for anybody, because some people have different ideas about that as it concerns parenting. Some want ther kid to get a job, others want them to wait until they’re out of high school. Either way, it isn’t the only solution to getting the high cost of car insurance for the student driver off of your own back. There are discounts for everything, and for student drivers as well.
One of the things that you should always encourage in a child is the importance of paying good attention to his or her studies. Doing well, or at least doing your best, in school is one of the easiest ways to get ahead in life. Sometimes people get lucky and are able to get a job without schooling to back them up, but otherwise it’s normally a lot of hard work. Schooling doesn’t guarantee you, but it certainly helps.
One great way to help promote this value with your teenager is by making sure they pull good grades before allowing them to drive. It helps to keep your kid on track while at the same time giving you an easier way of getting student car insurance. How is that? Well, most auto insurance companies offer a wide range of discounts for various types of drivers, and one of the ones that can benefit you directly is the good student discount. The good student discount generally applies to students in high school or college who make Bs or above on their report cards, and you can sometimes get as much as 15% off of their portion of the car insurance payment just with that.
All you need for your kid to get the good student car insurance discount is a report card or, if the school year just ended, a transcript. Some companies don’t go by letter grades, but instead by grade point average, so it might be a little more difficult to get documentation of that, but a lot less difficult than paying all that money for your teenager’s car insurance policy.
Cheers,
Fashun Guadarrama.
Car insurance for the student driver with a good driving record
Personally, I think I would be more likely to purchase auto insurance (or anything, really) from a company that was run by aliens. It seems like it would be easier to get a claim through with them because they have less experience cheating humans out of their money than other car insurance companies run by earthlings. Paying way too much for car insurance for the student driver is one of the hardest things about young people getting insured with their vehicles, and although I can’t guarantee you that Mercury is going to save you from that (although you can get free online auto insurance quotes to find out), I can tell you some ways to save that are pretty much universal among all auto insurance companies.
We’ve already discussed the good student car insurance discount, which is one of the easiest ways to get a break on the amount you are paying on your auto insurance for your teenager (or for yourself, if you are that teenager). As a recap, what that involves is a discount of between five and ten percent on your insurance policy if you have a B average or better or, in some cases, make a 3.0 or better. This is not the only way for student’s to get discounted car insurance, though.
One of the reasons that students have to pay so much to begin with is because, since they are new drivers and thus less experienced, they aare statistically more likely to get into an accident that will require a claim to be filed. They are also statistically more likely to cause the accident, and to have mre serious ones. How do you prove to the car insurance company that you’re not like that? By keeping a good driving record. This doesn’t mean you’ll automatically start paying the same amount as someone older than 25 with a good record, but it will take a lot off of the normal young person price.
There will be a different requirement for your driving record depending on where you go, so make sure you ask around and maybe go online to get some free quotes. Some companies are okay with a year’s worth of clean record to get the discount, so you could get it as young as 16 or 17. However, some require five years, so you’ll have to wait until you’re halfway through college already. Either way, it helps you save on car insurance while you’re a student and much longer.
Cheers,
Fashun Guadarrama.
Good Driver Car Insurance Rates For Limited Use Vehicles?
Reader Question: What can I do to easily lower my car insurance rate. I am a good driver and drive very short distances. I hear this phrase “limited use vehicle” mentioned…..do I qualify for that?
Frank
So you are a good driver huh? One way to lower your car insurance rate would be to lower your annual mileage you put on your vehicle. This is commonly refered to as a “limited use vehicle” meaning you only drive this vehicle short distances on a limited time basis. Maybe you only go to and from your work…which happens to only be 5 miles away from your home.
Lowering your annual mileage will lower your premiums drastically. Often, auto insurance providers will base their rate quote on the driver driving 12,000 miles a year.
if you really are a safe driver like you say you are, I would work out how many mile’s you will actually drive each month contact your insurance company about a “good driver” insurance discount and the fact that you fit into the limited use vehicle category. If they really want your business they will fight for it.
Clair
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