The tires on your car take a heck of a beating. Most passenger tires can handle 40,000 miles or more before needing replaced, and that’s a lot of pot holes, curb checks and hard braking.

Occasionally the life of a tire will be cut short by a puncture, generally in the sidewall, that is not fixable like a nail hole in the tread area.

Years ago, the only way to buy insurance was through a local insurance agent. Even small towns had multiple agencies that often competed directly across the street from each other. There was no internet, no online quotes and no way to contact many companies except through an agent.

Boy times have changed.

Most people think the purpose of car insurance is to reimburse you if your car gets damaged. If your car sustains $1,500 worth of damage from a hail storm you expect to be paid that amount minus your comprehensive deductible.

If you’ve received a DUI, chances are you’ve been beaten up pretty good by court costs, fines and attorney’s fees. The last thing you need to worry about is finding DUI car insurance.

You may have gotten by for a little while on your current policy before your car insurance company discovered your DUI on your driving record.

The day you’ve always dreaded is finally here. You’re getting ready to add your teen driver to your car insurance policy and bracing for the huge premium increase thanks to Junior’s inexperience behind the wheel.

We can’t blame car insurance companies for charging more to insure our teenagers.

Unless you’ve been under a rock recently, you’ve probably seen Progressive’s new marketing campaign advertising their new Snapshot device.

The Progressive Snapshot is a small digital device that plugs into the diagnostic port on most 1995 and newer vehicles. By using Snapshot, Progressive claims you can save up to 30% off your car insurance rates.

There are many types of trailers that you can pull behind your car, SUV or pickup truck.  Most car insurance will extend liability coverage to the trailer being pulled by your vehicle.

However, if the pulling vehicle is in commercial use, such as a contractor or farmer, and you have commercial vehicle insurance on the towing vehicle, liability MAY NOT extend to the trailer being towed.

The Ford Focus is one of the top-selling cars in America. Finding affordable insurance for your Ford Focus can be easy if you know how to shop for car insurance online.

Starting at around $16,600, the Ford Focus is a very affordable vehicle, so it’s not surprising that it’s one of the best-selling cars.

Car insurance for the four best-selling pickup truck models, the Ford F-150, the Chevrolet Silverado 1500, the Dodge Ram 1500 and the Toyota Tundra, can be surprising affordable.

Consumers have long had a love affair with the pickup truck due to the versatility, the cargo space, and just the manly man feeling of driving one down the road.

In the battle of the online car insurance powerhouses, Progressive insurance and GEICO are the two biggest online car insurance companies.

On one channel, Flo is trying to sell you car insurance by attempting to give Progressive a feeling that you simply take that perfect insurance solution box off the shelf and run it through the checkout isle.