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Click Here For Canadian Car Pricing Search CarBuyingTips.com Buying New Cars How To Buy New Cars Buy Cars Online First Time Car Buying Tips Hybrid Car Buying Tips Extended Auto Warranty Tips Canadian Car Buying Tips Top 10 Car Dealer Scams Military Personel Car Buying Our Reader's New Car Deals Auto Finance Auto Loans, Tips & Scams Auto Refinance Tips & Scams Bad Credit Auto Loan Tips Used Car Loan Tips Get Your Credit Report Online Car Insurance Buying Tips Used Cars Used Car History Reports How To Buy Used Cars Selling Your Used Car Used Car Classifieds Auto Auction Buying Tips Auto Leasing New Car Leasing Tips ALG Residual Values Car Leasing Software Reviews Government Sites Attorney General Sites DMV Sites - All 50 States Drivers License Sites Take A Break New Car Dealers - Ratings Rate Your Dealer Experience Free Spreadsheet Downloads Humor: Alternate Car Names RV Buying Tips & Scams How To Jump Start A Car LoserCars.com Crash Of The Month Gallery Furniture Buying Tips Click here for eBay.ca Motors	Car Buying In Canada And Finding Canadian Dealer Cost In This Section: Tips for our Canadian car buying friends. If you're buying a car from Ford Canada, Toyota Canada, Honda Canada, GM Canada, or the others, you're in the right place. Here we review the best auto sites for Canadian car prices, car dealer cost, other sites that can help you run car history reports on used Canadian cars. This section will save Canadians money. Also, be sure to view the "Canadian new car buyer's checklist" and use Canadian sites like CarCost Canada, to help you with dealer pricing. Useful Web Sites For Canadian Car Buyers These are the best sites for Canadian car buyers to use. These sites can save you a lot of money, while arming you to defend yourself against car dealer scams pulled on Canadian car buyers every day. You're a fool to not have the information from these sites in your folder when you visit a car dealer. Please note: Many of the U.S. based loan sites and extended warranty companies do not service Canada. Please do not email me asking who does, because I don't know. If we find any, we'll post it here. TheCarMagazine.com If you're a Canadian looking for the best info, this Canadian automotive magazine online has road tests, car reviews, car builders, car recalls, new and used car info, leasing tips and advice, in both French and English. This is the site to use. Lease Busters You can take over a lease and get hundreds or even thousands of dollars in CASH in your pocket. There's big money in getting people out of a lease in Canada. Canadian Car Dealer Cost & Car Prices Click Image For Canadian Car Pricing We get tons of questions from Canadian buyers who can't find dealer cost. Finally, Canadians can look up dealer cost at CarCost Canada. They list Canadian car prices in Canadian dollars as well as the dealer invoice price, and rebates instantly online so you can get a better car deal. Also Get Canadian Factory Rebate and Incentive programs. Click Here to "Get Dealer Cost Now" on Canadian vehicles. Having this secret dealer cost information is crucial to getting the lowest price on your new car. At last, salvation for our friends to the north. The reports appear online instantly and give details on the base model and options, as well as the MSRP price and the dealer's cost. If there are any rebates and incentives, those are listed, and they even list the average national mark-up on the cars. That gives you a great start on determining how much to offer the dealer. Quotes are different for each one, so get a consensus. Spend a few minutes now and save a few thousand dollars later. It's very hard for Canadians to get good pricing data on cars, because most of the auto related web sites only list cars in U.S. Dollars. We don't know if the pricing can be simply converted to Canadian dollars or not, as we believe Canada has it's own type of pricing. Knowing this pricing in advance can be very advantageous for you. Here's an email I got from a Canadian car buyer: YearMakeModel: 2003 HONDA CR-V EX Invoice: $27,394 MSRP: $29,850 Negotiated: $28,146 Feedback: (Canadian prices) Thanks for the good advice! Made buying a car easy, and I was happy to know that I wasn't getting ripped off! After I made the deal, I entered the deal back into your "Buyer's offer" spreadsheet, and I had talked him down to 3% profit! Thanks again for keeping money in my pocket.

As of February 2007 WarrantyDirect is now selling car extended warranties in parts of Canada

This is good news for our friends to the north, as many had been asking me for years when WarrantyDirect would be selling extended warranties in Canada.

WarrantyDirect.com is currently available in Manitoba, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, NW Territories, Nunavut, Prince Edward Island and Yukon provinces. Will be available in others in 90-120 days. Here's some of their warranty coverage:

LuxuryCare+ - This is Warranty Direct’s top-of-the-line bumper-to-bumper coverage designed for vehicles with high end luxury options. Coverage includes your vehicle’s Emissions System, Airbag Electronics, GPS/Navigation System, DVD/Video System, Telephone/Bluetooth System and Internet Access system. It includes coverage for wear-and-tear failures as well as mechanical breakdowns. LuxuryCare+ also includes deluxe Roadside Assistance membership. Available for vehicles as many as 4 model years old with as many as 80,000 kilometers on the odometer.

SecureCare+ - SecureCare+ is a bumper-to-bumper coverage for vehicles without GPS/Navigation System, DVD/Video System, Telephone/Bluetooth System and Internet Access systems. Emissions system coverage is standard and you can add optional coverage for the Airbag Electronics. It includes coverage for wear-and-tear failures as well as mechanical breakdowns. SecureCare+ also includes deluxe Roadside Assistance membership. Available for vehicles as many as 4 model years old with as many as 80,000 kilometers on the odometer.

PowerWrap+ - A specialized bumper-to-bumper coverage for vehicles with powertrain warranties that run longer than the factory bumper-to-bumper warranty. This eliminates the duplication of coverage of your powertrain and makes coverage more affordable. Emissions system coverage is standard and you can add optional coverage for the Airbag Electronics. It includes coverage for wear-and-tear failures as well as mechanical breakdowns. PowerWrap+ also includes deluxe Roadside Assistance membership. Available for select vehicles that are still under the original factory bumper-to-bumper warranty.

XtraCare+ - Warranty Direct’s best level of named component coverage providing coverage for all 16 major systems of your vehicle. It includes coverage for wear-and-tear failures as well as mechanical breakdowns. XtraCare+ also includes deluxe Roadside Assistance membership. Available for vehicles more than 4 model years old and with as many as 160,000 kilometers on the odometer.

MajorCare - Warranty Direct’s mid level named component coverage providing coverage for 12 major systems of your vehicle. Coverage was designed to cover the most likely to fail items. It includes coverage for wear-and-tear failures as well as mechanical breakdowns. MajorCare also includes deluxe Roadside Assistance membership. Available for vehicles as many as 7 model years old with as many as 160,000 kilometers on the odometer.

PowerShield – Warranty Direct calls it major Medical Coverage for Older, High Mileage vehicles. PowerShield is a low-cost, major component coverage for vehicles with up to 240,000 kilometers on the odometer. PowerShield covers mechanical breakdowns for items such as the Engine, Transmission, Drive Axle, Timing Belt, Water Pump, Fuel Pump and more. PowerShield also includes Roadside Assistance membership.

Why We Recommend Warranty Direct:

• 26 years in business (been through several full claims paying cycles)
• Not an Internet only company, one of the largest brick-and-mortar warranty providers to car dealers, banks and credit unions.
• Financially stable
  • Over $200 million in assets
  • Solid insurance backing
  • A Forbes magazine Top 200 Company – three times
  • Paid out over $500,000,000 in claims
  • Dun & Bradstreet verified
  • Actuarially sound – we saw the letters!
• Licensed to sell in both California and Florida, the 2 most stringent states when it comes to regulatory issues. Both states audit them periodically and take the guess work out of your research.
• The best Better Business Bureau report we have ever seen in the industry. Only 2 complains in the past 3 years (as of May 2006). To put that into perspective, they handle over 7,000 claims every month.
• Over 100 verified customer testimonials at WebAssured.com
• All coverages include wear-and-tear (except high mileage PowerShield)

Canadians also have a tough time getting a good deal on a car, and we get numerous email complaints from Canada about some really nasty car dealer scams. Most of these scams occur because previously in Canada, you had no where to turn to for good pricing data, so dealers can take advantage of you. You had no way to tell if you got a good deal.

Our tips here on CarBuyingTips.com apply to Canadian car buyers as well, but only a few of the sites are usable for Canadians. We review many sites for Americans to use that either sell cars directly to you or use their volume of users to bargain down prices for you. But many of these sites are only usable in the U.S.

So we made this page for our Canadian visitors that lists just the Canadian sites. Be sure to use these sites reviewed below before reading the rest of our chapters on car buying so you don't waste your time at sites that don't cater to Canadians.

Competition gets you the best price. Too many people walk into a dealership without knowing how much they can buy that same car for using other sources and if you don't know in advance what you should be paying, you're in deep trouble. You need to fill out their online forms to get a free purchase quote. Make sure you have the dealer's cost and profit margin information from CarCost Canada. Once they see your lower price quotes from these honest online sites, you'll know you've stopped them dead in their tracks. The deal will proceed on your terms, not theirs.

Before you buy any new car in Canada, be sure to Take a look at the "Canadian new car buyer's checklist"

If you plan to buy a used car in Canada be sure to read our article on buying used cars and avoiding scams.

Now that you've gotten the information you need from the Canadian specific auto web sites, you are ready to start the article on car buying. All the other tips and scams that we reveal are applicable to Canada as well, so be sure to read all 7 chapters of the article. Before You Forget, Email This Article To A Friend.

Jump to any chapter. I suggest you read each chapter in order.
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.
Chapter 5 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.
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