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Main Page Auto Alternatives Drive Shafts Industry Tricks Dealing With The Dealer Consumer Tricks SUV-ille Hidden Profit$ Consumer Driven Deals Self-help Resources More Auto Consumer Resources Grand Theft Auto: Industry Cases My Last VW Mistake "Ten Reasons" Lemon Proofing Deals CARveat's Caveat You Can Help CARveat Emptor Flyer VW Junkyard Links My Other Car Not A VW Legislative Alerts Dodging Chryslers Mini Van Junkyard Activist Flyers True Costs of Driving Car Deal Illiteracy 15 Sec. Car Deal Lecture Parallel Parking Test-I-Moanials Eco Orgs & Auto Industry Contact Info	Uparmoring Car Deals - Do-It-Yourself Troop Support Tell Car Makers To Make Cleaner-Air Vehicles Tell Ford Motors Company to Get it's Gas in Gear Tell Ford Motors Company to Get it's Gas in Gear TRICK$ of the Car Deal -- Auto Consumer Education Resource 'Unfair, manipulative and fraudulent car sales and service practices cost our friends and families over 76 billion dollars last year... auto sales and service fraud alone is at least a $22 billion / year business' Grounding; Flipping and turning; Curbstoning; Lemon laundering; Double dipping; Inflating invoices; Confusing paperwork; Non-disclosure of hidden damage or repairs on new cars; Artificially shorting supply to increase demand and keep prices high; Price gouging; Profit creep; Deal milking; Bait and switch; Siphoning fuel or removal of bumpers or other items between test drive and drive-off; Selling over-lapping warranties; Psychologically coercive advertising; Low-balling; Misrepresentation of the origin, use or condition of new and used cars; Customer Ping-Pong; Service shenanigans; Blaming the customer; Title washing; Packing; System Selling schemes; Leasing scams; Etc., Ad nauseam. A lifetime of auto ownership and operations costs can easily exceed twice the costs of the median priced American home... AutoBuyology© An Arts & Sciences Crash Ph.D. Course in Carlessnesshood © http://www.autobuyology.org/ Carlessnesshood [Don't Have A CAR, Man!] or keeping a car ten years or longer rather than trading it in every three, four, five, six, or seven years may save over $400,000 over 40 years to a lifetime of auto ownerhsip and operation costs.Women and minorities were found to pay more on average for auto sales and service due to bias. Fixing The Dings in the "Great" American Car Deal (1.). Negotiate the manufacturer's profit as well as the dealer's mark-up on all car deals and leases, including "no-haggle" and "value priced" deals. Ding the mfr., on car deal profits, too! (2). Demand comprehensive "Fair Car Sales and Service Practices" consumer, industry and economy protection legislation at local, state and national governmental levels. Write your representatives today. Waiting may be your next car deal mistake.   (3). Get Smart! Pick up a book or two on car buying at your library or book store and get behind the consumer driven car deal. Stop paying too much for new and used cars and private transportation. Learn about System Selling techniques and other tricks of the Great American Car Deal. Make the academic Car-Deal-to-Library-Literacy-Connection for yourself and others and invest your savings for reTIREments. Only you can erase Chronic Car Deal Illiteracy Syndrome.   (4). Demand, support and use efficient public transportation and auto-alternative transport and transit resources. Everyone, even auto addicts benefit when others have auto alternatives available for various personal transport needs. (Note, copy & share widely)   Copy, post, circulate, save & share... reduce, recycle, reuse, recreate... More at: http://www.autobuyology.org © 1995-2005, R. Rand Knox, All Rights Reserved. Auto Alternatives | Drive Shafts | Dealing With The Dealer Hidden Profit$ | Consumer Driven Deals | Car Consumer Resources Auto Industry Cases | Car Deal Repair Kit | My Last VW Mistake "Ten Reasons" | Lemon Proofing Deals | CARveat's Caveat You Can Help | CARveat Emptor Flyer | VW Junkyard | Links My Other Car Not A VW | Legislative Alerts | Dodging Chryslers Mini Van Junkyard | Activist Flyers True Costs of Driving | Car Deal Illiteracy 15 Sec. Car Deal Lecture | Parallel Parking | Test-I-Moanials	What's In You? What's In Your Cells? GOT ASTHMA? Yet? GOT WAR FOR OIL? GOT TOXIC LOADING? GOT GLOBAL WARMING? GOT EXPENSIVE FOSSIL FUELS? Have you told your auto maker, or the auto industry to make more efficient and cleaner-air vehicles? Recently? (Flyer to copy and post). Have you asked others if they have? It wouldn;t kill you to do so! It may even help prevent or reduce asthma and global warming. For Healthier Air, Planet, & People: To Save Y'our Breath, Lives, Money & Planet... Tell Car Makers To Make Cleaner-Air Vehicles 1 Jump Start Ford For A Cleaner-air Future 2 Jump Start Ford Tell NHTSA to Improve Fuel Efficiency of SUVs Tell Car Makers To Get Their Gas In Gear Flyer 2-up Save Your Breath, Life, Money & Planet Flyer 1-up Don't Be A Fossil Fool - Fossil Fools Day Car Deal Literacy & Self-help - Auto Consumer Resources List: Troop Support - Up-armored Car Deals  Thank You For Teaching - Carlessnesshood 101   Real Government Reform ReDemocracy