That is the reason GAP insurance coverage exists. Deciding to skimp out on your insurance coverage when buying an expensive vehicle is stupid. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

I read the article hoping to find out how being sideswiped by an e-scooter could total a truck, but I was left unsatisfied.

A truck would be fine, but this fragile piece of shit just fell apart.

~~ I wonder if Tesla’s in house insurance even offers gap insurance lol ~~

Edit: article says he has Allstate so never mind

It doesn’t make any sense. eScooters are all plastic lol

Even if he has Allstate, this is a good question about Tesla’s in-house insurance. Or maybe Allstate didn’t offer it for the Cybertruck, obviously they shouldn’t have if they did. That 100% would have been a losing product and insurance companies don’t do that.

Remember that a “totaled” vehicle doesn’t mean it can’t be used, or even that it is heavily damaged just that insurance has decided that the specific repairs needed would cost more than just paying out the current value.

They don’t care if you get your vehicle fixed or replaced, insurance only cares about paying as little as possible using every loophole as possible.

Just some free finance advice. Vehicles are a money sink, they only lose you value. If you aren’t comfortable with the concept of losing money, DO NOT buy an expensive vehicle. But the cheapest used car you can with cash on hand. Now, that’s not possible for everyone. And it’s not practical for everyone, it might be in your best interest to lease a vehicle for a monthly fee. Your lease should be with a reputable car dealer that has some kind of agreement to regularly maintain the car, and to trade it in often for another car without increasing your fees. The goal here is to pay as little as you can, and trade in often so you don’t ever reach the point of needing serious repairs to the vehicle. Different situations have different needs, no one size solution works. But I’d HIGHLY discourage taking out a large debt in order to buy a new car. Your losing money you don’t have. That’s a bad idea. Then again, bankruptcy has few downsides when you are already poor.

Right, but cybertrucks are mostly bovine excrement.

Alternatively, it means that the car purchase was done without enough money for the down payment and therefore maybe the buyer couldn’t actually afford the car. With a solid down payment, you should never have to be underwater on the auto loan in the first place. You can plan to stay ahead of the depreciation over the life of the loan because you already paid for the drop in value.

With too little down though, gap coverage is a must.

Whoa hey now, that’s not true at all.
There’s plenty of rust on them after it rains too.

Yeah, I’ve been on the other side of that, but sideswiped by a scooter? I get that they aren’t worth as much as they were, but still…

I paid a broker in California to find one and ship it to me. Their fees were $50k plus fees/taxes (totally reasonable seeing how limited they were.)

Allstate isn’t covering that and is hitting me with depreciation. Can I fight this?

What a dumbass. Hell no your insurance isn’t going to cover the amount you paid somebody to go and find one of these for you, and no, $50K for that service is not reasonable lmao

I’m with you. How fast was that scooter going?!

What I want to know is if the poor person who was riding that scooter when he cut them off is OK

To be fair that is assuming an average amount of depreciation and not over paying for the vehicle to begin with.

The Price is Right failure horn

He might have thought it would actually go up in value due to demand and financed the whole thing.

Yeah, great point. If I paid $100 for a rock it doesn’t make the rock suddenly become worth $100 to the rest of the market.