Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Cheaper Car Insurance -- 7 Ways To Save

By Chimezirim Odimba

A number of suggestions for lowering your auto insurance rates could reduce the quality of coverage you enjoy and are, therefore, NOT advisable. But there's a better suggestion: Apply the correct steps and do certain things right and you'll get big discounts Let's go deeper into this...

1. Staying claims-free will result in a good discount. But don't be surprised if your agent tells you your auto insurance provider does not offer this discount.

If your insurer is one of the few who don't offer this discount tell them point-blank that you'll switch to another insurer. With this kind of history getting a far lower rate is certainly very easy since claims-free policy holders are every insurer's dream.

And, believe it or not, your insurer is likely to shift grounds if they see you're really serious about leaving.

2. You can lower your premium by positioning yourself for a multi-vehicle discount. You can only do otherwise if the sum of your rates with various insurers is lower than what you'll be given with a multi-vehicle discount if you buy from one insurer. Doing some shopping and then comparing with what you'll save with a multi-vehicle discount is an easy way to be sure if this is in your best interest. Insuring more than one vehicle with the same insurance company will always result in a decent discount.

3. A multi-policy discount is a good way to reduce your total insurance spend. This simply means you'll should endeavor to buy your auto policy from the same company that provides your home, health or life insurance policies.

However, care has to be taken because the fact that an insurer offered you great rates for a policy doesn't mean they will for another. Shopping around for quotes and comparing offers out there with what you'll save are highly recommended steps. That way you'll be able to determine if this will be to your advantage.

4. It might seem unfair to most people but your credit rating does affect you rate. They claim to have found a correlation between credit history and risk. Profiles with poor credit rating, they claim, are usually less responsible on the road than those who have excellent rating.

5. An good way to make sure you get more affordable rates is being careful always while driving. Please, make sure you make it a policy not to drive if you so much as sip any alcoholic beverage.

Driving with more than the permissible amount of alcohol in your blood stream will make you attract sky-high rates if you're fortunate or be forced to be without car insurance if luck isn't on your side. While alcohol-related traffic offences have very immediate and grave consequences, speeding tickets will also affect your rates negatively if they become frequent. Therefore, if it's breaking traffic laws, avoid it no matter how negligible it may appear to be at the time.

6. We all know that no age group pays as much for auto insurance as the under-25 age group. But for people who fall within this age bracket, getting good grades at school will help you get more affordable rates.

This discount is for those who get A's or a minimum of B's. This attracts a discount of about 5%. Reckless students are very unlikely to keep getting excellent grades.

7. You can reduce your auto insurance costs by obtaining and evaluating quotes from at least five reputable quotes sites. - 15275

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