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🚗 Find Out How You Can Reduce Car Expenses (AARP Article)

SummerOnTheWay1 — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 15:36:19 GMT

HOW ARE YOU REDUCING YOUR COSTS? 🤔 ME - MAINTENANCE AND LOW MILEAGE INSURANCE! 😎

Car costs are going through the sunroof. But there are ways to save.

By Margie Zable Fisher. Published December 29, 2023.

https://www.aarp.org/auto/trends-technology/reduce-car-expenses/

Re: 🚗 Find Out How You Can Reduce Car Expenses (AARP Article)

SummerOnTheWay1 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:57:03 GMT

📎 [2/24/24] FROM ARTICLE AND ADVICE I AM FOLLOWING:

(1) Go high-maintenance. “It’s a lot less expensive and easier to maintain a vehicle than it is to repair a vehicle,” says David Bennett, senior automotive manager at AAA.

(2) Ask for a low-mileage discount. If you’ve recently retired or shifted to working from home, your driving mileage may have dramatically decreased, which can lower premiums.

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nctarheel — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 21:15:51 GMT

@SummerOnTheWay1 wrote:

FROM ARTICLE AND ADVICE I AM FOLLOWING:

(1) Go high-maintenance. “It’s a lot less expensive and easier to maintain a vehicle than it is to repair a vehicle,” says David Bennett, senior automotive manager at AAA.

(2) Ask for a low-mileage discount. If you’ve recently retired or shifted to working from home, your driving mileage may have dramatically decreased, which can lower premiums.

Being an AARP member, I had already read this article. A few good ideas.

My insurance company doesn't have a low mileage discount but has a plethora of other discounts of which I take advantage.

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SummerOnTheWay1 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:58:41 GMT

📎 (2/24/24) Me too @nctarheel , but missing the Drivewise App that knocked off alot for SAFE driving. Also had "free" magazine subscriptions. Since retiring, I NO longer drive enough miles to use the bonus. GRATEFUL "renewal" for THIS MONTH was awesome. Looks like the "ridiculous" renewal INCREASES I have been getting since 2020 (pandemic) are gone 💃💃💃

[*** @nctarheel wrote:

Being an AARP member, I had already read this article. A few good ideas.

My insurance company doesn't have a low mileage discount but has a plethora of other discounts of which I take advantage. ***]

Re: 🚗 Find Out How You Can Reduce Car Expenses (AARP Article)

nctarheel — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 21:45:16 GMT

@SummerOnTheWay1 wrote:

(2/24/24) Looks like the "ridiculous" renewal INCREASES I have been getting since 2020 (pandemic) are gone 💃💃💃

Don't celebrate too quickly, @SummerOnTheWay1. The Insurance Industry in N.C. asked for a 42% increase in homeowner's insurance. Of course, the N.C. Insurance Commissioner turned it down.

Re: 🚗 Find Out How You Can Reduce Car Expenses (AARP Article)

Tempest332 — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 07:19:02 GMT

@nctarheel Not Hartford I imagine?

@SummerOnTheWay1 You should get a penalty for driving with a smartphone. Golf cart, are you moving to The Villages?

I can't imagine how little I will be driving if & when I retire. I only drive around 6K now.

Re: 🚗 Find Out How You Can Reduce Car Expenses (AARP Article)

SummerOnTheWay1 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:57:22 GMT

📎 (2/27/24) @Tempest332 , explain your statement about driving with a Smartphone = penalty??? 🤔 The Golf Cart remark was a joke and no Villages for me. I NEED to be "off grid" = that place is like Peyton Place! 😎

[*** @Tempest332 wrote:
@nctarheel Not Hartford I imagine?

@SummerOnTheWay1 You should get a penalty for driving with a smartphone. Golf cart, are you moving to The Villages?

I can't imagine how little I will be driving if & when I retire. I only drive around 6K now. ***]

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Tempest332 — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 17:30:11 GMT

@SummerOnTheWay1 Smartphones (phones in the car in general) induce inattentiveness, & distractions to driving. I'm likely paying for others inattentiveness in my higher rates.

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SummerOnTheWay1 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:57:53 GMT

📎 (2/27/24) Yes @Tempest332 , I have been "rear ended" at a STOP LIGHT 2 times, NOT my fault - due to drivers using cell WHILE DRIVING. Not sure about Florida but I "think" you will get a TICKET "if" caught in Virginia. And I luv the ladies putting on their "makeup" WHILE DRIVING. How about getting up earlier = get it done at home OR wait until you pull into your job's PARKING LOT???? 😎

[*** @Tempest332 wrote:
@SummerOnTheWay1 Smartphones (phones in the car in general) induce inattentiveness, & distractions to driving. I'm likely paying for others inattentiveness in my higher rates. ***]

Re: 🚗 Find Out How You Can Reduce Car Expenses (AARP Article)

Tempest332 — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 17:53:12 GMT

@SummerOnTheWay1 wrote:
(2/27/24) @Tempest332 , explain your statement about driving with a Smartphone = penalty??? 🤔 The Golf Cart remark was a joke and no Villages for me. I NEED to be "off grid" = that place is like Peyton Place! 😎

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I hear they have a Wal*Mart onsite in The Villages. 😉

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SummerOnTheWay1 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:57:37 GMT

📎 (2/28/24) Lol, and can you imagine the DRAMA inside the store!!! 🤣😂

[*** @Tempest332 wrote:
I hear they have a Wal*Mart onsite in The Villages. 😉 ***]

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Tempest332 — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 20:52:01 GMT

Some videos on the U Toob if you have time, I thought you lived near there?...

How come there isn't an auto forum on here?

Re: 🚗 Find Out How You Can Reduce Car Expenses (AARP Article)

Tempest332 — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 22:44:00 GMT

@SummerOnTheWay1 wrote:
(2/27/24) Yes @Tempest332 , I have been "rear ended" at a STOP LIGHT 2 times, NOT my fault - due to drivers using cell WHILE DRIVING. Not sure about Florida but I "think" you will get a TICKET "if" caught in Virginia. And I luv the ladies putting on their "makeup" WHILE DRIVING. How about getting up earlier = get it done at home OR wait until you pull into your job's PARKING LOT???? 😎

I always was extra careful in that stretch of 77 in Virginia, unmarked cars & plenty of hiding places. (Radar detectors are ILLEGAL in Virginia), I had one with road condition info & one of the only states it worked well was WV.

Coming out of my development this am, 2 cars turned in... no signal, preventing me from turning out. ... drivers playing with "the phone". Get to the main intersection driver creeping through driver "texting".

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SummerOnTheWay1 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:58:08 GMT

📎 (2/28/24) @Tempest332 , it has been a few years since I took a Road Trip. The last one was from Cave Spring, Virginia to Lexington, Virginia and the GPS on my Android did ALERT me to them "hiding" behind stuff/lol 🤣😂

But LOCALLY, no warning 😎

[*** @Tempest332 wrote:

I always was extra careful in that stretch of 77 in Virginia, unmarked cars & plenty of hiding places. (Radar detectors are ILLEGAL in Virginia), I had one with road condition info & one of the only states it worked well was WV.

Coming out of my development this am, 2 cars turned in... no signal, preventing me from turning out. ... drivers playing with "the phone". Get to the main intersection driver creeping through driver "texting". ***]

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Tempest332 — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 18:41:04 GMT

This was before the "phone" craze started. Just a 1 line matrix scrolling display, that informed of slow traffic, accident ahead, caution, construction, along with police radar displaying the band including Laser & pulse.

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SummerOnTheWay1 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:58:24 GMT

📎 (2/29/24) @Tempest332 , BEFORE I had my daughter 35 years ago, I use to "bounce between Miami and Orlando" and would STAY BEHIND the truckers. Back then I DIDNOT have a "fancy" cell. They had RADAR = when they SLOWED DOWN = I did the same = NEVER got pulled over 😎

[*** @Tempest332 wrote:
This was before the "phone" craze started. Just a 1 line matrix scrolling display, that informed of slow traffic, accident ahead, caution, construction, along with police radar displaying the band including Laser & pulse. ***]

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Tempest332 — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 01:34:10 GMT

Never used it for speeding, just made me more aware of my surroundings.

BTW, did you take 95 or the Turnpike?