My son bought his first car last week and when we went to insure it, we were certainly surprised at what it was going to cost us.

I have been with the same auto insurance company my whole driving life and have never questioned the rates that I pay. However, I was shocked enough when they gave us a quote for my sons’ insurance to check out what else was available.

I started my search online with a simple query in a search engine: “Auto Insurance Discounts.” Checking out some of the sites I found I was able to get many different quotes, most of which were much lower than my current insurance company quoted us. We chose a company that was reasonably cheap and gave really good coverage.

I then decided to see what kind of online auto insurance quote I could get since I have been an accident free driver for over thirty years. It was much lower than I had thought - so low that I could have saved myself thousands of dollars over the past thirty years. I promptly switched and am thus far very happy with my new insurance provider.