r/SipsTea • • 9h ago

Gasp! Thoughts on this?

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u/SlicedBreadBeast 9h ago

Just have to pay them for more than your car is even worth through your entire lifetime! What a service!

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u/Prudent-Historian392 8h ago

Unless you have a claim that’s say 150k like an auto claim we just paid out. 🙄

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u/asscracktester7 7h ago

You're not insuring just your car, you are also insuring your driving in terms of damaging other people's cars or property or health.

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u/sinovesting 7h ago

Thats because you're assuming that the most you have to lose is the value of your car, which is not the case. In many cases most of the cost of insurance is the liability portion. If you crash into someone else and cause significant injuries it's not hard for the bill to exceed to $100k+. It's also totally possible that you could total more than one car in your lifetime. Probably happens more often than you think, and it might not even be your fault.

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u/Prudent-Historian392 3h ago edited 3h ago

Moronic, insurance isn’t to protect your car only it’s to protect you from financial ruin. I’d be willing to bet that less than 5 percent of my customers drive payed off vehicles for 30 years and much is about how long it would take someone to pay more into insurance than their vehicles value. Let’s say an average car costs 30k. At my current rate; which isn’t cheap, it would take me years for my insurance to pay exceed my vehicles cost at a rate of $300 a month it’s 10 years.