Cheap Car Insurance — Tips To Qualify

by Chimezirim Odimba

How well have you done in your bid to cut your insurance costs? Have you limited yourself to one or two recommendations that you got a long time ago? Are you really certain you’ve exhausted all the the steps there are to take to massive savings? I have many more guaranteed tips here…

An alternative for you is to use your parents’ car insurance policy. The fact that you’re of driving age means that your parents are of a lower risk age group.

You must remember that the car must be registered in their name and you must be living with them if you want to take advantage of this option. If you want to own your vehicle, then be the big boy or girl and also own the higher premiums. Sorry, you cannot have both with this alternative. However, you can still make huge savings by following the link at the end of this piece.

Do not include rental car coverage in your auto insurance policy without confirming if your credit card offers such a benefit. A good number of credit cards give you an automatic rental car insurance coverage once you use them to rent a vehicle. Therefore, to ensure you do NOT pay more for unnecessary coverage, check.

We all know that no age bracket pays as much for auto insurance as drivers who are less than 25. If you belong to this age group you can attract lower rates if you maintain good grades at school. It’s known as the good student discount.

You must have a grade point of not less than B to enjoy this good student discount. This attracts a discount of about 5%. Experience has shown insurance carriers that what makes a student maintain excellent grades is a level of responsibility which also shows while driving. Reckless under-25 drivers are very unlikely to keep getting good grades.

Taking a drivers’ refresher course can help those above 55 to bring down their rates. You can lower your monthly premium by as much as 10% once you pass this course. You can get details on this from your agent.

It’s a known fact that young drivers attract high rates. Worse still, if they are teenagers their auto insurance rates could be really high.

Therefore, as much as possible, do not place such a driver on your own policy. It will drive it up by a huge margin. Your teen driver should have his/her own policy. This will be made possible if you sign an exclusion form.

Let your teen bear the responsibility of paying for their auto insurance. This act will save you more than money as your teen driver will happily listen when suggestions are made on things that will bring down the high rates they pay. The full implication of this is that your teen will be a lot safer as they’d do their best to avoid inflating their rates.

Add-ons like towing raise your premium without giving you as much value as using a towing service. By the way, your credit card might already offer this as a benefit so check.

Even if this is not the case with your credit card company, you’ll still get better service and save more if you exclude towing from your policy and you a dedicated towing company instead.

You might not be enjoying some discounts you qualify for with your preferred insurer simply because you are not aware of them. Since agents too are not above mistakes they might not remember to tell you about some discounts you are eligible for. The only way to be sure it’s false in your case is by asking your agent to list out all discount that your insurer gives. You might have a really pleasant surprise!

Finally…

You will save much money in auto insurance if you obtain and compare auto insurance quotes from quotes sites. You’ll make savings if you visit just one of such sites. But, you will get more by using at least five.

The straightforward logic in this is that you will obtain many more auto insurance quotes from many more insurers. This increases your chances of getting better rates.

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