How to get out of paying a car dealership prep fee?

There is one simple thing you can do if you don’t want to pay for a prep fee. First you may ask the car dealership to credit you the amount of the prep service fees on your contract or you can simply refuse to pay it. If the dealer refuses just don’t sign the deal. It won’t have cost you anything more than a little bit of you time and if the prep fee is $500 you will have to work many hours just to cover it. Keep in mind that dealer preparation fee is completely legal and a car dealership can add these fees to your final bill. But if you refuse to pay the fee you will be able save yourself some money.