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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
    SummerOnTheWay1Author
    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
    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
      SummerOnTheWay1Author
      February 28, 2024

      📎 (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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