Which Car Insurance Coverage Type Do I Need?
Reader question:
How do I find out what type of car insurance coverage I need in my state?
Errol
Thank you for your question, Errol.
There are plenty of ways that you can do this. The first way is that you can go to your state department of motor vehicles website and normally there will be information about what types of car insurance coverage you need and how much of it, along with a length to the state department of insurance’s website which will give you a list of car insurance providers who are licensed. You can also just ask your car insurance agent themselves.
Cheers,
Fashun Guadarrama.
High Risk Car Insurance – High Performance Car With DUI
Reader question:
I can’t find a car insurance company that wants to insure my high performance car. I have a DUI from a couple of years ago and need an SR22. How do I get high risk car insurance?
John
Great question, John.
It’s hard enough to find good, cheap car insurance coverage when you have a high performance car, and it is also difficult when you have a DUI and need to file an SR22 form for your auto insurance coverage. However, combining the two means you are a double risk, furthering your complications with finding quality car insurance coverage. It will be much more difficult for you to find this coverage, but it can be done.
First of all, how hard have you been looking? Have you gone online and gotten auto insurance quotes from several different car insurance companies? If even that didn’t work for you, then what you might want to do is call up your state department of insurance and ask for a list of car insurance companies in your state that are licensed by the department to do business. You can also find a list like this online. However, if you call you might be able to ask for recommendations for someone looking for a high risk car insurance company.
If the companies on the list don’t prove helpful, then you might have to resort to the final option, which is joining your state’s high risk car insurance pool. Every state has one of these pools and it should be avoided unless you truly have no other option, because insurance through the high risk car insurance pool often costs much more than regular car insurance, even if it’s with the same company. These high risk car insurance pools randomly assign people to regular car insurance companies that might otherwise not have accepted them. If you have to resort to this option, though, remember that there are plenty of other ways you can lower your high performance SR22 car insurance premium price.
Cheers,
Fashun Guadarrama.
Cheapest High Performance Car Insurance Quotes
Reader question:
How can I get the cheapest high performance car insurance quote?
Amy
Thanks for asking, Amy.
The biggest factor that plays in to how much you end up paying for your high performance car insurance premium is actually something that has little to do with your driving abilities. It’s your credit score. This is a factor that makes a world where someone with a great driving record, no claims history, and being between the ages of thirty and forty five, get a high car insurance quot simply because of the fact that their credit report is less than savory.
One of the best ways, and also one of the more difficult ways, to insure that your car insurance quot rates remain consistently low is to maintain your credit report so that it looks good to car insurance companies. As the owner of a high performance car, you should make sure that your credit report has enough accounts open that have a good history of making your payments on time. While normally when you buy something and have your credit checked, and when tallying your FICO credit score, the main thing looked for is not only a good account history but a lengthy one, car insurance companies do not care so much about length of your history as the consistency of your payments.
The credit report use when giving out a car insurance quot is still up for debate in many states, where it has become controversial and to some is seen as discrimination against the poor, who tend to have worse accounts on their credit reports.
Cheers,
Fashun Guadarrama.
High Performance Car Insurance Discounts for Security System?
Reader question:
Will I be able to keep my coverage while I am upgrading my high performance car’s security?
Anne
Sorry, but it doesn’t work that way.
Car insurance companies often have very strict rules about the prices a secure car will get you, and if you want to get good rates on your collision coverage, then you need to have safety features installed. However, if you don’t, you can still get the collision coverage, but it will jut cost more. The same thing does not go with high performance car insurance coverage. While you can get your car insurance collision coverage just as easily, the comprehensive coverage is not the same way. Many car insurance companies will not even think about covering you with comprehensive until you have the right safety mechanisms on your car to protect against theft, and you cannot put this off. No features, no coverage, it doesn’t matter if you are installing them right now.
The types of alarms that the car insurance companies require are called active disabling alarms. While you can get something with bells and whistles, what they want is for you to have something that shuts down an integral part of the vehicle so that the thief is not able to start it even with his techniques. The device also needs to be constantly active, not activated by you.
Cheers,
Fashun Guadarrama.
What is Collector Car Insurance?
Reader question:
What is collector car insurance?
Great question.
Collector car insurance is a type of insurance that applies to car that are antiques, specialty in some way, often older and high performance cars. This type of car insurance has been on the market for about fifty years, but even with that length of time it is still not as widely spread as it should be. In fact, the majority of drivers who own collector cars are insured with a regular car insurance company instead of with the insurance companies that specialize in collectible and high performance vehicles. And then there is also a significant number of drivers in this group who are self insured.
However, getting your collector car insurance through a company that specializes with those types of cars is much cheaper in the long run. The reason for this is because the insurance from a regular company can often cost five times as much as it would from a collector company, and the policies from a regular company don’t really fit the use typical of a collector car, and often don’t provide for the care and coverage that it needs.
Cheers,
Fashun Guadarrama.
Classic Car Insurance Companies – Are They All The Same?
Reader question:
Are all collector car insurance programs the same?
Great question.
They definitely are not. As a matter of fact, there are just as many, if not more, differences among collector’s insurance companies as there are among those for regular daily car insurance companies. When choosing which classic car insurance program you want to insure your vehicle with, you need to consider a lot of factors. Getting a free online auto insurance quote should be the thing to start you off, but it should not be the determining factor. Classic cars need more attendant care than do other types of cars, so making sure that the service from your new classic car insurance company is great is the key to choosing a great program.
When you have chosen and then need to pick your coverage, remember the three versions of coverage that can be gotten for a classic car. There are agreed value, actual cash value, and stated value. Most people want to go with agree value so that the value of their classic car is understood up front, so if you want a company that does it a certain way, make sure you think about that during your search.
Cheers,
Fashun Guadarrama.
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