One of the biggest reasons why my life is in such a mess is because the lady who caused the traffic accident I was in over two years ago didn’t have enough on her car insurance limits to pay for my medical expenses. That doesn’t even begin to touch the lost income, either! Naturally we had under-insurance coverage on our own auto insurance policies, but even that isn’t enough to pay for my medical expenses.
I’m all for people trying to get cheap car insurance as a way to save money, but I think that the best way to do that is by increasing the deductible, not decreasing the liability! If you are checking around for cheap auto insurance, please think of the other people who you may accidentally injure and get a policy with decent liability. Only having $25,000 is not enough. I know that is legal to have that low, but it shouldn’t be!
I was using my John Deere tractor to plow and scoop snow out of the driveway, and the oil line broke. Well, it is never a good time for a breakdown, but this is one of the worst times! So I took my tractor to the local John Deere dealer for repairs. There was a time that I would have been able to do the repairs myself (I have done it before) but ever since my accident I have not been able to do that kind of repair anymore.
Well, they really overcharged me drastically. They charged me for five hours work when I know it would have only taken me three, and they charged me for four quarts of oil, when I know it only takes three. Even the owner’s manual tells you that it only takes three! I told my wife about it and she told me that I should bring the error to their attention and ask them politely to correct their mistake. I’m afraid that if I complain that they will remember me as a bad customer and not take good care of me in the future. So I’m inclined to let it ride. My wife says that I should just approach them nicely and assume it was a typographical error and for them to please correct it. She says if I handle it right then they won’t be upset. I really don’t know what to do!
Well here we go again. We are supposed to be getting a lot more snow starting tomorrow sometime. My car still has over 2 feet of snow on it’s roof from the storm we got over the weekend. I’ve been driving my truck these past days, the roads are still a mess and I trust my truck a whole lot more than my little Honda in this type of weather.
Guess we will see what happens. It is February.
I’ve been really lucky in my life to have owned a lot of different cars. I enjoy buying older used cars and rebuilding and restoring them, but I also enjoy driving a nice late model car. For the most part I come from a family strongly rooted in the tradition of buying the chevy brand. I’ve been thrilled to own two different corvettes at different times of my life! I loved to take them out on the open road and drive at high speed. My wife would probably kill me if she knew how fast I drove those cars! I’ll just admit that I’ve earned a lot of speeding and reckless driving tickets that I didn’t get (yet.)
When we finally get the lawsuit over and done with from my accident (going on three years now) we’d really like to buy a new car if we have any money left over after all of our expenses have been paid. My wife would love to check out a honda hybrid car. Her mother had a hybrid car for a few years and she really liked it. We’re still puzzled as to why she traded it in for a different car that isn’t a hybrid! I think there were a few things her brother told her about having to replace the battery and how much it would cost that scared her off.
My daughter has been thinking about buying a new kia forte. Mainly because she has heard that it provides good value and is inexpensive. I told her I’d check out the kia forte specs and give her my opinion of what I read. I’m glad that she trusts my judgement! Or at least humors me!
My mother-in-law owns a hybrid car. My wife and I are pretty jealous about that. We’ve been wanting a Prius Hybrid of our own for several years now. We love the great fuel efficiency that it gets. We are always hearing about how my mother-in-law gets 50 miles per gallon with her car. Don’t get me wrong; we get pretty good gas mileage with our own cars, but with the price of gasoline going up again, it makes my blood boil how much of our money goes into our gas tanks!
My mother-in-law has always been one to buy high quality cars. My wife says that she remembers that not very long ago that her mother had a chrysler 300. She doesn’t remember what year it was, but she does remember that her mother loved it. And my wife said that she remembers that it was a very nice and comfortable riding car.
My wife has shopped for a chrysler from time to time when she needed a new car but found them to be priced too high for her budget, so she never had the chance to own one herself.
As for me, well my dream car is the audi r8. I like to fantasize that when all of the nonsense about settling the accident case with the insurance company is said and done that I’d have enough money to guy a great car like that! The more info I read about that car the better I like it! But with the price tag on that car, I’d have to not just get a good insurance settlement, I’d have to win the lottery too!
