My Tesla Cybertruck Got Totaled After It Was Sideswiped by an E-Scooter. All-in, I paid $198K, but Insurance is Only Offering Me a “Fair Market Value” of $77K. I Still Owe the Bank $171,500
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Every insurance is a scam right up until you need it. Gap is cheap as hell and if you can’t budget for it you should have the cash in hand to replace your vehicle.
For what it ACTUALLY pays and how long it lasts, it is extremely expensive. Most people it is good for 3-4 months and that’s only if they don’t put ANYTHING down. Trade in a car? Put money down? GAP is useless.
And every month you go without totaling your car it is worth much less.
And if a car/truck depreciates enough driving off the lot for GAP to make sense. You’re paying too much for new and should buy used if you want that particular model.
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Gap insurance is a scam in “most” instances. But dropping 100+k driving off the lot… Wait no it’s still a scam, he’s is just a fucking idiot for buying it in the first place …
Maybe I got lucky. But I financed half of a car once, got the GAP insurance, and was hit at a red light.
The car was totaled, but I was also upside down on the loan. I ended up walking away with a profit.
It definitely feels like a risk/reward thing. But Im glad I had it when I needed it. I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily a scam, but I do feel like regular car insurance is.
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Good point.
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For what it ACTUALLY pays and how long it lasts, it is extremely expensive. Most people it is good for 3-4 months and that’s only if they don’t put ANYTHING down. Trade in a car? Put money down? GAP is useless.
And every month you go without totaling your car it is worth much less.
And if a car/truck depreciates enough driving off the lot for GAP to make sense. You’re paying too much for new and should buy used if you want that particular model.
Yes every month I don’t use it. The month I did use it I’ll be pretty happy won’t I.
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TL;DR: man does not understand how Insurance works; that vehicles are depreciating assets.
What kind of fucking idiot does not understand that a vehicle is a depreciating asset!?
Yeah, the minute you buy a vehicle for $200,000 and you drive it off the lot, it is now worth $135,000.
Furthermore, insurance does not give you back “what you paid” you get “replacement value”. So if you were stupid enough to pay $200,000 and it’s depreciated to $70,000, that’s what you get, because that’s what it cost to replace your stupid toy.
Why is this even an article
Yup i used to sell insurance and so few understand even that basic part
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So I saw something about this.
Apparently the Cybertruck is way more unibody than most cars, their “gigamold” technology or whatever where the truck is made out of a small number of unusually large parts means a bolt-on bolt-off repair on most cars is “the entire cab is bent, it’s done” on the DePlorean.
So they are among their other problems hard to repair even the body panels
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TL;DR: man does not understand how Insurance works; that vehicles are depreciating assets.
What kind of fucking idiot does not understand that a vehicle is a depreciating asset!?
Yeah, the minute you buy a vehicle for $200,000 and you drive it off the lot, it is now worth $135,000.
Furthermore, insurance does not give you back “what you paid” you get “replacement value”. So if you were stupid enough to pay $200,000 and it’s depreciated to $70,000, that’s what you get, because that’s what it cost to replace your stupid toy.
Why is this even an article
It was never even worth $200k they paid an extra $50k to get it earlier.
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I got hit in a parking lot by a little old lady cutting acrros the parking lot. They wanted to total my car and I told them no. They subtracted the salvage amount and cut me a check for the rest. A oem fender and some color matched paint cost less than 500. So this story is bullshit.
According to another comment:
Apparently the Cybertruck is way more unibody than most cars, their “gigamold” technology or whatever where the truck is made out of a small number of unusually large parts means a bolt-on bolt-off repair on most cars is “the entire cab is bent, it’s done” on the DePlorean.
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At least 2mph.
Probably.
to a cybertruck it might as well go 2mps, 2 miles per second.
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Cybertrucks are really, really bad for repairability. Consider the fact that on a normal car you can fix a dent by getting the panel most of the way back to the correct shape and then fairing it the rest of the way with Bondo before painting it. But with a Cybertruck, you’d have to metalwork the panel all the way back to perfect and then somehow figure out how to match the surface finish. It’s a lot more labor, if it’s even possible.
It could be that the insurance doubts that the vehicle can be completely restored to its pre-loss condition at any price.
i think insurances are either not covering it, or they double, triple the cost of preniums.
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This is why you also need gap insurance for anything but the cheapest cars. It exists to prevent this situation.
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Why is this even an article
Rage bait. It got you to interact with it
Rage bait? Read like a feel-good story to me.
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TL;DR: man does not understand how Insurance works; that vehicles are depreciating assets.
What kind of fucking idiot does not understand that a vehicle is a depreciating asset!?
Yeah, the minute you buy a vehicle for $200,000 and you drive it off the lot, it is now worth $135,000.
Furthermore, insurance does not give you back “what you paid” you get “replacement value”. So if you were stupid enough to pay $200,000 and it’s depreciated to $70,000, that’s what you get, because that’s what it cost to replace your stupid toy.
Why is this even an article
Why is this even an article
Because it’s designed to make us feel good at the cost of a fool’s misfortune.
Just like 50% of the “news” out there.
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Yes every month I don’t use it. The month I did use it I’ll be pretty happy won’t I.
You “won” the lotto, good for you?
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Probably hard to find any recycled parts because there are so few of them on the road, and buying a new part is probably expensive and timely. I’m sure Telsa isn’t allowing any LKQ production either. And even if you get a part, you have to go to a shop that can work on the car, which will be expensive because who’s going to want to work on a vehicle that rusts when you look at it? Even if it seems fine, once someone is in an accident, every single thing that happens next will be the accident. Rear ended six months ago? Yup, that’s why your tire blew, not the nail in it. So that person will keep coming back. The new piece is rusted, the new piece isn’t as straight, the new piece buckled. An insurance company will absolutely total a car not just because the repairs are over the costs, but if it seems like it’s always going to have issues, they’ll make a decision to total it as the cheaper option. They do that with rodent issues all the time. And during all this, depending on his coverage, he’s racking up rental. And rental always runs out.
He’s complaining about standard insurance practices. They don’t owe you the overpriced amount the dealership talked you into, they owe ACV/Actual Cash Value. The moment you leave the lot, it’s losing money. It doesn’t matter how great you took care of it, or if it’s like new. You don’t get the brand new, off the lot price, for a vehicle that’s no longer brand new, off the lot.
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I don’t know who is the biggest moron here the idiot buying a cybertruck or the idiotic banker approving a 200k loan for a cybertruck.
Either way… LMFAO
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This piece of shit costs $200k???
I read earlier on this page that they paid $50K to get it early. Doesn’t make it any less insane though.
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imagine spending 200k on a cybertruck and getting totaled by an escooter this guy is a fucking moron
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200k to blow on a car but doesn’t have 30 bucks a month for gap insurance
well he’s gonna be paying that off for the rest of his life now
good investment!
