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- From: 01ksdavis@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu (Rebel without a clue.)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.vw
- Subject: Re: Do insurance companies hate VWs?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.181458.11965@bsu-ucs>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 23:14:58 GMT
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- [Plight of Water-cooled VW owners insurance rates dropped for space only, in no
- way am I trying to lessen it's impact.]
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- I do think the insurance companies have it in for us VW owners. If you
- happen to drive a water-cooled VW, get prepared to pay high premiums, if you
- drive an older, air-cooled VW, be prepared again to pay high premiums.
-
- I guess they think us air-cooled VW owners enjoy a healthy living off
- of our vehicle's miserly ways at the gas station. Even with gas at a dollar,
- any fool with a reasonably decent calculator can figure that we are just barely
- getting by.
-
- TRUE STORY:
-
- I had been a State Farm insurance customer for a year on my 74 VW
- superbeetle with auto-stick.
-
- Then I had my accident, and it boiled down to his word against mine,
- an important note here is that we both had State Farm insurance, or rather,
- his parents had insured all of their cars on State Farm, and they were always
- buying new cars.
-
- What it boiled down to was State Farm believing him, as his parents had
- payed them more money. So, not only are insurance companies biased against new
- VWs but they are also biased against old cars in general, as they only get
- public liability and property damage out of them.
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- ______________________________________________________________________________
- |Kyle S. Davis
-