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SummerOnTheWay1
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February 24, 2024

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

  • February 24, 2024
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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/

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    SummerOnTheWay1
    Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
    February 24, 2024

    📎 [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.

    nctarheel
    Community Champion ⭐
    February 24, 2024

    @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.

    SummerOnTheWay1
    Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
    February 27, 2024

    📎 (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. ***]