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Avoid junked, flooded, or salvaged Lemons. 
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Credit Card Tips For Deposits At Car Dealers

Never pay cash for a deposit on a car.  If the deal goes south, you'll never get your cash back, but you can always dispute a credit transaction. You may need a new, clean credit card to handle deposits, and purchases, don't pay cash. If your credit is ok try Discover Card.  What if you can't get credit at all and keep getting rejected? Then try this Credit Card Finder For People With Bad Credit.  Don't keep applying to credit cards, get rejected, and your credit history ruined further, find out who will approve you before you apply. They find at least 2 credit cards guaranteed to issue an unsecured credit card to you.  If your credit is so bad and If you're in too deep, maybe now is not the time to buy a car.

Most people don't know their Attorney General has a web site.  You should visit your Attorney General's web site before you go car shopping.  Many attorney general web sites have consumer information and tips on avoiding car dealer scams, lemon laws, and how to file a lemon law complaint.  You can file other car dealer complaints as well on your attorney general web site.  You can usually email them or fill out an online complaint form to get started.  In 1994 I successfully used the Florida Attorney General's office against a Pontiac dealer who cheated me on my extended warranty.  While performing covered warranty work on my fuel tank, they welded a penny to plug a leak.  That was pretty stupid, not to mention a safety violation, not that GM cares, their joke of a complaint line sided with the dealer as usual. Of course the penny corroded and leaked and I filed a complaint with the Florida State Attorney.  In Florida the Consumer Affairs Division handles car dealers and they forced the Pontiac dealer to reimburse me $350 for the new gas tank. Once they saw my photos it was a no brainer.

The most common car dealer crimes you should be contacting your attorney general about are the ones that most people don't even know are crimes: The forced extended warranty or the forced credit life insurance.  It's been a felony for at least 10 years in most states, yet many car dealers still pull this scam on you, especially if you have bad credit.  They tell you that you must buy the extended warranty or the credit life insurance, or else the bank will not finance you.  This is NOT true, and by law no bank is even allowed to make you buy anything to a get the loan.  If this happens to you, report it to you attorney general immediately, because if you don't someone else, maybe even you, will fall victim to their crimes.  Other crimes to report are failure to disclose everything in writing on leases as required by FTC's Regulation M, and not disclosing your trade-in value on the lease.  Florida is a great state for cracking down on cheating dealers and manufacturers.  Florida has already motioned against Toyota, Ford, and Mazda for deceptive leasing practices, advertising, you name it.

If you're moving to another state or looking for information on drivers licenses, try DMV Web Sites For All 50 States or Drivers License Web Sites For ALL 50 States.

Why you must get a copy of your driving record
I highly suggest you get a copy of your drivers license record  BEFORE shopping for insurance.  Many of us have errors in our driving report that will drive up insurance rates.  A few years ago I paid a traffic ticket, but they never credited my driving record, nor did they credit me for going to driving school!   How did I find out?  Allstate canned me!  That's not the way you want to find an error on your driving record.  I saw an article in the paper where the clerk of the court admitted they had a 20% error rate, and shrugged it off as normal.  So lucky 20% me had my license suspended by mistake.  Don't let this happen to you! Trust me, you don't want to go through what I did to fix it. . If you go to driving school or pay any fines, keep the receipt in your wallet for 3 years or until you renew your license! If you get pulled over by the police, it's your only salvation from being dragged off to jail for driving with a suspended license.  Just like your credit history determines your loan approval, your driving record determines how cheap your insurance will be.
 
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Chapter 1
Get your credit report, how to get a car loan, scams, online car loans,first time car loans, budget & loan excel spreadsheets, credit repair.		 Chapter 2
Reviews of internet discount car buying sites, new car prices, find dealer's invoice cost. Get a new car quote.		 Chapter 3
What to bring to a dealership, what to say, how to act, what not to do, what to look for at the dealership, and a glossary of all dealer fees.		 Chapter 4
How to read dealer invoices, finding dealer's cost, how much to offer the dealer, buyers offer spreadsheet, examples, trade-ins.
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Negotiating tips, dealer scams & tricks to watch out for, dealing with aggressive salespeople, choosing between rebates or low APR loans.		 Chapter 6
Close the deal, avoid needless extras, scams in the business office, extended warranty scams, options, buying warranties online.		 Chapter 7
Actual misleading dealer ads, and what to do when you've been ripped off, customer satisfaction surveys, how I bought my Lexus.		 online auto loan rates, new car loans, bad credit auto loan, used car loan, new car financing
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