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  • Today@lemmy.world
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    My car insurance goes up as my car loses value. Years ago you could choose to only insure it up to a certain amount. My kids drove an older car and i designated $10k in insurance for it. That cut the insurance price to about 60%. Texas no longer allows that.

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      Isn’t most of the insurance for liability? I can see a logic where older cars are less safe, and thus accidents are more likely and would cost more, hence the higher costs. But I’m just guessing.

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        Collision insurance, the kind that pays for damage to the policy holder’s car in the event of a crash caused by the policy holder or an authorized driver of their car often more than doubles the overall cost of insurance. Collision insurance is usually optional when there’s not a loan.

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      Your car may lose value, but the cost to repair goes up. Hence the insurance increases. Also the likelihood of a total loss goes up as well.

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        The insurance will never pay more than the value of the car, so if the repair cost goes too high they’ll just declare it a total loss and pay the “fair market value” of the car. And yes, a total loss is more likely, but that doesn’t mean the insurance pays more, on the contrary, they use that to pay less.

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      Huh that’s weird. My parents bought new cars and their car insurance basically doubled. Equal-tier vehicles to their older ones, but new.

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        If the car that totals at $50k costs you $100/mo, that doesn’t drop to $90/mo when the car’s value drops to $45k. It stays the same or goes up.

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          21 hours ago

          That is not universal at all. There are so many factors at play. I’m sure it happens but again, not universal.