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• au1994 Member Posts: 3,782

  9:47AM

  Plastics, particularly in the cooling system, has been a knock on BMW's for a while. Somewhere in Germany, Dieter in accounting is happy.

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• sda Member Posts: 7,714

  10:02AM

  VW/Audi are guilty of plastic cooling and engine parts. Not preferred.

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• andres3 Member Posts: 14,151

  10:46AM edited 10:47AM

  Tesla owes Toyota for a lot of sales; the Prius used to be such a bad eco penalty box that the Prius owners that went to Tesla couldn't help but think the Tesla's were "amazing."

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• kyfdx Moderator Posts: 271,205

  12:00PM

  Every make.. They all to save weight.

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• andres3 Member Posts: 14,151

  12:30PM

  kyfdx said:

  Every make.. They all to save weight.

  save weight to reduce destination costs (but not charges).

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• qbrozen Member Posts: 33,810

  2:29PM

  Speaking of insurance, did I mention Geico is charging me just $70 a year for the Vespa? As I told my son, they probably charge so little because you’ll be dead after an accident so they’ll have no payout to worry about.

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• jmonroe1 Member Posts: 9,698

  7:19PM

  @qbrozen said:
  Speaking of insurance, did I mention Geico is charging me just $70 a year for the Vespa? As I told my son, they probably charge so little because you’ll be dead after an accident so they’ll have no payout to worry about.

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  That could be but I’m not positive about that. Now let’s say a husband and wife are owners of the bike, and one of the owners is killed do to and accident while driving the bike, doesn’t the insurance company have to pay the surviving spouse for damage/loss of the bike?

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• stickguy Member Posts: 54,137

  7:21PM

  I assume the payout value on a totaled used Vespa is pretty low. Not like totaling a Ferrari. And it is a lot cheaper for them if you don't make it instead of serious injuries and a long term hospital stay.

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• qbrozen Member Posts: 33,810

  8:21PM

  @stickguy said:
  I assume the payout value on a totaled used Vespa is pretty low. Not like totaling a Ferrari. And it is a lot cheaper for them if you don't make it instead of serious injuries and a long term hospital stay.

  Exactly. Besides, no collision. I mean, it is silly when you add that. I didn’t even check for myself, but my son’s was like $250 increased to $3500 with collision. Not at all worth it for a $4k bike.

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• jmonroe1 Member Posts: 9,698

  8:42PM

  @stickguy said:
  I assume the payout value on a totaled used Vespa is pretty low. Not like totaling a Ferrari. And it is a lot cheaper for them if you don't make it instead of serious injuries and a long term hospital stay.

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  I wasn’t talking about the value of the bike. I was talking about whether or not the insurance company was obligated to pay the surviving spouse whatever the bike was worth if collision was purchased. Which I think they are.

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• xwesx Member Posts: 17,946

  10:15PM edited 10:16PM

  jmonroe1 said:

  
  I wasn’t talking about the value of the bike. I was talking about whether or not the insurance company was obligated to pay the surviving spouse whatever the bike was worth if collision was purchased. Which I think they are.

  jmonroe

  It doesn't matter if there are survivors or not; they are still obligated to pay the value of the loss. In the case of death, it would just go to the value of the estate and benefit others (debtors, beneficiaries, etc.).

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