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Step1 Avoid car trade-in scams wherever the dealer states he will pay off your current lease or loan, no matter how much you owe. Remember that a lease or a loan is a financial contract, and there is no trick to eliminating one when buying a new car. While this supposed “deal” will only end with you making even higher payments on your new car, it is better to wait until your car is paid for, or your lease has expired. Step 2 Look out for car dealers who expediently forget to pay off your trade-in after the deal is complete. Many new car buyers are shaken as soon …

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Scam 4: The pay off loan or lease scam The car dealer’s newspaper advertisement is constantly saying that they will pay off your entire remaining loan or lease. This is true literally, but there is no hint about the consequences of breaking the loan or lease contract. Actually the penalty for breaking the contract for your current car costs thousands of dollars. Of course, the car dealer pays you off the remaining loan or lease, but the penalty of thousands of dollars is subject to you. The ads are just trying to mislead you into buying their car so that they can profit more. Never believe in these misleading …

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Scam 1: The straw purchase scam Here a straw purchase means someone purchases an automobile for other people who, due to poor credit, cannot purchase it themselves. In order to make you buy the car without any hesitation, the car dealer may assure you that you can get a car loan even if your credit record is not very good. Moreover, they will tell you that you can build your credit by using this car loan, and the only way to do this is to find a co-signer for your contract. And next you will find out that the co-signer is not the primary borrower of this loan but …

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After the Toyata recall on January 21 car dealers have been ordered to stop selling the vehicles and the manufacturing plants have stopped production. The models, which include the popular Camry and Corolla, make up 57 percent of the automaker’s sales. For now, the manufacturer says not to do anything unless you’re experiencing problems. Toyota said that the acceleration incidences are rare, happening when the pedal becomes worn, for instance. If you are experiencing any sticking or anything else that worries you, the company says to call your local car dealer. Here are other tips from Toyota if you happen to be driving and the accelerator sticks: • If …

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It’s known than usually salespeople advert prices of a car excluding the on-road costs. You should better always ask for the specific on-road costs to be included, otherwise the salesperson will most likely give you the excluding on-road costs price. No doubt, you have to be protected because your contract may be drawn up on this proviso. The thing is that the moment you sign the contract, the ‘quoted’ price of the car, will then be understated by many thousands of dollars. To make sure not to be involved in this, you better shop around for car prices online. There, you’ll get a wide array of information on car …

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If you have bad credit and want to buy a new car you haven’t got a lot of financing options. For that reason you are likely to look for a car dealer that can provide the money required for the new car. Loans offered by car dealers are not that bad, however it is more likely to have unfavorable terms. Another important problem is that  some car dealers will try to cheat you. Here is presented the top three car scams that you should remember and avoid. -Previously Wrecked Car Sold As Is This is a popular scam so you should be alert. Some car dealers do not know …

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Recently a Los Angeles car dealer has sold a car to an older adult without any information given to the sales person. The car dealer did not ask older adult neither about monthly income nor even social security. The purchase contract included a high dollar amount car payment and low monthly income from the older adult. When the family members found this out they tried to exchange car for lower payment. However, they were denied. The bank was not able to do anything either. Auto Sale took advantage of the older adult. The car dealer did not handle the sale correctly.

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At this point the sales person will return and escort the customer to their newly purchased car. With all the paperwork signed, the car Dealer doesn’t want the customer to linger (they might take the time to read what they just signed). This is the emotional “high” of the transaction for the customer. They think they have just “beat the house” on their hard-won deal and they are ready to strut out of the dealership and drive off into the sunset. The Dealer wants to encourage that. There is a psychological aspect to putting the car over the curb and the Dealer knows that if the customer figures out …

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The car dealer is required by the purchase contract to return to you all consideration (i.e., everything) given for the purchase, included your trade-in vehicle. If you gave a $2,000 down payment and a car as a trade-in, the car dealer must give you back both the $2,000 and the trade-in when you return the car you purchased. There may be times when your car dealer may tell you that it already sold your trade-in, and you can be offered the value of the trade -in as listed on the purchase contract. On the other hand the language of the purchase contract does not appear to give the car …

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Customers who have online auto quotes aren’t immune to loan scams. The car dealer may tell you that he needs to get your credit report because this is required by the Patriot Act. You might even notice the form you are filling out is titled “Application for credit.” However what most customers don’t know is that the Patriot Act does not require a credit report or your Social Security number and the dealer uses this to get you into applying for dealer financing. Remember that your name and driver’s license number is all that the dealer needs.

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