Auto Buying Resources
No-Obligation Auto Price Quotes
Auto Loans and Refinancing
Extended Auto Warranties
Auto Leasing and Lease Swapping
Credit Reports and Credit Monitoring Services
Pre-Purchase Used Car Inspection
No-Obligation Auto Price Quotes
These resources will provide you with price quotes from local auto dealerships in your area. Each service usually works with different dealerships and often times may have different price arrangements within the same dealership.
- Yahoo! Auto offers up to 4 price quotes. This is also a good resource for information on makes and models of vehicles as well as comparisons.
Auto Loans and Refinancing
The following Auto Financing resources offer online loan applications and approval. Some of these auto lenders cater to those of us with less than perfect credit. Since an auto dealership will often take advantage of the credit disadvantaged auto buyer, it is a good idea to have an approval from one or more of these sources. Not all dealers will accepts all lenders, so make sure you ask the dealer if they will work with your chosen lender.
- Lending Tree provides current rates for your local area. Gets you quotes from up to four different banks to compete for your auto financing.
- DriveTime is a chain of preowned auto dealerships specializing in car buyers with bad or no credit. They often have a great selection of late model vehicles available and pretty much finance anyone.
- myAutoLoans arranges loans on new and used vehicles from either dealerships or private parties and also offers lease buyouts. myAutoLoans will generate up to 4 different auto loan approvals from one application.
- Driver Loans specializes in less than perfect credit and will finance in bankruptcy situations.
- Any Credit Auto Loans works with good and not so good credit and offers loans from several leading lenders.
- up2drive will finance new or used and even from a private party. up2drive is owned by BMW Financial and offers low rates on all makes and models.
Extended Auto Warranties
These extended auto warranties offer an alternative to those available through the dealership. In most cases these are available whether you have just purchased your vehicle or have had it for a while. Often you can also purchase an extended warranty for a used car as well. Prices likely will vary whether your car is still under factory warranty or not.
- Smart Auto Warranty offers roadside assistance, towing and rental benefits. Also, you get to choose the repair facility.
Auto Leasing and Lease Swapping
These auto leasing resources offer auto lease options, including new leases as well as opportunities to take over existing auto leases from individuals that are looking to get out of theirs.
- SwapaLease helps people looking to take over a lease as well as those wanting to assign their list to someone else. Dealers also use this site to offer deals on new auto leases.
Credit Reports and Credit Monitoring Services
Credit resources offer important information about your credit situation that will likely affect many aspects of your life including car loans and leases.
- LifeLock offers affordable identity theft protection with a $1,000,000 guarantee.
- MyFico is a well respected source of credit information and offers credit monitoring and data from all major credit bureaus.
- Equifax is one of the three main credit reporting bureaus. You can get your credit reports from the big three credit agencies as well as credit scores and monitoring.
Pre-Purchase Used Car Inspection
These are resources for inspections and reports on vehicle histories. You can find out whether the vehicle you are looking at has been stolen, salvaged or wrecked before you buy it.
- AutoCheck is offered by Experian a major supplier of credit and other information. Their vehicle history reports tend to have greater detail and accuracy than some of the other suppliers of similar reports.
