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Insurance Companies Insist 'Unbreakable' System Means You Stole Your Own Car
from the sorry,-won't-pay-out-for-that dept
It's no secret that insurance companies have to deal with plenty of fraud -- but it appears they sometimes take fighting that fraud too far. For instance, apparently many insurance companies really believe that the various car anti-theft systems are unbreakable, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary. Just a few months ago, researchers showed how easy it was to break auto anti-theft systems found in many vehicles today. Yet, insurance companies apparently like to believe in the fiction that it's impossible to break the RFID-based system that protects these cars. It gets them out of paying insurance claims -- though, it leaves plenty of victims in a pretty deep hole (with the insurance company often accusing them of fraud), through no fault of their own. At what point does someone sue an insurance company over the false claim that these systems are unbreakable? Of course, the insurance companies will probably just respond by raising your premium and noting that you shouldn't get a discount for such anti-theft systems, since they're ineffective.
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If you can sue them...
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Re: If you can sue them...
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RE: DittoBox #5
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auto theft systems are ineffective
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How much would my insurance premiums be if I took my anti-theft device and shoved it up my insurance agent's ass?
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Revolution!
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Re: Revolution!
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you can creatively bash a fender or three, and have a car or truck thief's won't look twice at, n still have a mechanically sound & good runnin' ride.........
havin' slick pimped out, or high end rides are all BS anyway, just cost more $$ to insure, n higher payments to the robbers, errr, dealer n bank....
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Re: Revolution!
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I Stole My Own Car, sort of...
I continued push starting it for a few days, about a dozen times. I replaced the starter, checked the wiring, ignition switch, fuses, fusible links, relays - all to no avail. Eventually I took it into a repair shop and they discovered there was a well hidden 3rd party anti-theft system. I wasn't told about it when I bought the car, and it had been set off some how.
Clearly, that anti-theft system didn't prevent me from starting and driving away in the car.
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Come on, when does common sense kick in. Next they will say that because our homes have buglar alarms we couldnt have been robbed so we are making a fraud claim.
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The best theft device ever used is a ...
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Quite possibly. Did you know that you can get aircraft insurance which includes a million in liability + full coverage of the aircraft (over $150,000) for around a thousand dollars a year (give or take, depending on the type of aircraft and pilot certificate held).
Try insuring a similarly priced motor vechicle for that rate!
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the obvious solution ...
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LOL
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There's not much else that needs to be said...
Just like your credit card data is secure right.
How can they be so stupid.... sheesh
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