Seriously! Some of them will actually do that! They are counting on and hoping that you won’t bother to carefully go over the paperwork – and many new and used car buyers don’t! And why don’t they? Its usually because they are so burned out and worn down by the entire car lot buying experience that they just don’t have it in them to scrutinize the paperwork and just want to get the hell out of there. And guess what? That is EXACTLY what the car dealers are hoping for and what their entire burn out car buying process is designed to do to you!

If you discover this on your paperwork then they will give some lame and totally bogus reason by telling you that the finance company requires it, or who knows what else?

Here are 2 easy ways to avoid becoming a victim to this auto car warranty scam…

• Go over the paperwork thoroughly and if you see something weird, and they aren’t able to explain it to your satisfaction, then walk out the door and find your answer somewhere else.

• Get an extended auto car warranty from an outside source INSTEAD of at the car dealer.

• I also suggest you minimize the time you spend with the shark in the finance department because that is where they will lean on you hard to get you to buy their extended car warranty and whatever else they can make you pay for…and the best way to accomplish that is to get a car loan online.

You can save yourself an unbelievable amount of grief and money by doing those simple things to avoid this car warranty scam.

An extended car warranty starts when your factory car warranty ends – which could be something like 5 years or 100,000 miles, or whichever comes first, but the length of manufacturer warranty varies from one car manufacturer to another.

Here is the problem…

When you buy a new car, the dealer may try to force their very expensive extended automobile warranty on you.

Car dealers handle extended car warranties in the finance department and the pressure to buy one of their expensive and often inadequate extended car warrantys can be extremely intense! The reason they push them so hard is because you might be surprised to know that car dealers make very little money on the sale of new cars. Thats right, believe or not, the big profits are made selling used cars. So in order to boost their profits when selling new cars, they will push all kinds of things on you that can make them extra money.

The extended auto warranty scam can often cost you twice as much and they are usually not anywhere near as inclusive as an extended car warranty you can get on your own AFTER you have bought your new car. Yes, you can buy one later.

You can save hundreds of dollars by getting your own warranty AFTER you buy your car!

The fact is that you don’t need to buy your car warranty before you leave the car dealership even though “they” in the finance department will try to club you over the head with their extended car warranty scam and tell you that “you must buy it now or you will never be able to get one again!”

They might tell you that you’re being stupid, cheap, or a fool, and whatever else they can do or say to make you fall for their extremely expensive car warranty scam NOW!

You don’t have to buy it that day. Its a lie. So don’t fall for it. It is true that an extended car warranty is a great thing to have and the sooner you buy an extended car warranty, the less you will pay for it.

Letting yourself fall victim to the extended car warranty scam the day you buy your car won’t make any difference, except cost you a lot more, because the truth is that you have 30 days after you buy a car to get an extended car warranty.

Of course they won’t bother to inform you of that one little tiny detail.

The worst thing about the extended automobile warranty scam is that they may not even offer you the choice and just bundle it in with the price of your new car!

So caveat emptor (let the buyer beware) and there are other car warranty scams, but now you know about this one.

The above questions ( Car Scams – Dealer Says They Will Pay Off Trade-in ) were submitted by a reader and here are my answers…

First of all, I would never trade in a car because you won’ t get anywhere near as much money for it as you will if you sold it yourself. Seriously, we are talking about hundreds or possibly even thousands of dollar more if you sell it yourself. See, the thing is that you are going to have to clean up your car anyway if you are going to trade it in, so why not spend just a little more time and sell your car yourself?

Okay, I realize that wasn’t your question, so let me get to that…

To have the car dealer pay off your car loan may not be a car scam…but it might be for some. The reason I say that is because in the present economic situation where things are sucking, there are many car dealers across the country (and maybe even some with the best of intentions) that are going out of business. Okay, big deal. Well, it is a big deal because the problem is that they aren’t paying off the loans on cars that they took in on trade. And guess who is responsible for paying off your car loan? YOU! Yes, no matter how much they promise to do what they say they are going to do – the bottom line is that YOU will be the one that gets stuck for paying off your car loan because you are the individual on the loan. Trading in your car is enough of a scam as it is because of all the money you will be throwing away, but letting someone else tell you that they will pay off your car loan can and often is another one of those car scams to be aware of.

Now I am thinking that they are either going to request a larger down payment, or leave the down payment as it is but increase the interest rate which would give me higher monthly car payments…or they want to lower the monthly payments by extending the term of the loan to beyond the current and agreed upon 5 years. Of course I don’t want any of those things.

My questions is: Can I get the car I traded in back? I would really love to back out of this deal because the car I bought from them isn’t running well.”

“I bought a 1996 Pontiac Grand Am SE with 47,000 miles on it with an extended warranty. Four months later the engine light came on and the dealer fixed it and said he put in a brand new catalytic converter. Five months passed and the same engine light came on, but now the car was undrivable. The mechanic said it was the #2 and #4 fuel injectors and distributor coil. He told me he replaced all those parts. Another five months went by and now the extended warranty has expired. My mechanic looked at it and said they never put in a new catalytic convertor and whoever fixed the fuel injectors did such a bad job that gas was going into all the wrong places in the engine so it totaled the engine! It was going to cost me four thousand dollars to fix it! So now I’m left with no car and two more years to pay on the loan and I’m left to buy a junk car for five hundred dollars that could be another nightmare and a sure car dealer horror story!”

“Purchased a car on E-bay at a big dealership in Missouri. Shipped it home. Found out that car is a salvage car with a broken odometer. Title branded clean with no odometer problems. Also vin on title does not match the vin on the car. I obviously dont want the car. Is the dealership responsible for picking the car up and giving my money back and can I recoup any shipping costs already spent. All the dealership has said as of lately is a half felt apology – nothing else!”

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“I purchased a car off of ebay (I know, there was my first mistake). The description read of it having no scratches or dents and the engine runs perfect with no noises. I went to Illinois to pick it up from XXXX and XXXXX XXXXXXX and right away I notice the car is a little rougher cosmetically than they described. They assured me it was in good shape mechanically, and I checked it and it seemed to be so. Soon after I left I heard a pinging noise from the engine so I took it back. They took it over to a mechanic (who it turned out later was just one of their friends) and he told me it was a pushrod and was caused by me because I am apparently bad at shifting (according to them). When I got it home, I had a few mechanics look at it, and they told me that it had been run without oil and the engine was shot and no matter how bad I could have shifted for the 5 minutes I took it away I could not have done this. Turns out the reason I didn’t hear it when I test drove it is because it didn’t do it till the engine warmed up. When I called them about it, they not only continued lying, but accused me of ruining the car and made fun of me and being from Iowa. One of the very mature comments made when I told them I brought it to my mechanic was this: “So that doesn’t mean anything, does a FXXXing Iowa mechanic even know how to work on anything other than tractors?” Needless to say, I learned my lesson, never buy a car out of state online to avoid a car dealer horror story.”

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