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Click Here For Canadian Car Pricing Buying New Cars How To Buy New Cars Buy Cars Online Hybrid Cars Extended Auto Warranty Tips Canadian Car Buying Tips Top 10 Car Dealer Scams Teen Car Buying & Safety Tips Auto Finance Auto Loans, Tips & Scams Auto Refinance Tips & Scams Bad Credit Auto Loan Tips Used Car Loan Tips Get Your Credit Report Online Car Insurance Buying Tips Used Cars Selling Your Used Car How To Buy Used Cars Used Car Classifieds Auto Auction Buying Tips CARFAX History Reports CARFAX Record Check Auto Leasing New Car Leasing Tips ALG Residual Values Car Leasing Software Reviews Government Sites Attorney General Sites DMVSites50 States Drivers License Sites Take A Break Free Spreadsheet Downloads Humor: Alternate Car Names RV Buying Tips & Scams How To Jump Start A Car LoserCars.com Crash Of The Month Gallery Furniture Buying Tips Click Here to Visit eBay Canada	Car Buying In Canada And Finding Canadian Dealer Cost In This Section: Tips for our Canadian car buying friends. If you're buying a car from Ford Canada, Toyota Canada, Honda Canada, GM Canada, or the others, you're in the right place. Here we review the best auto sites for Canadian car prices, car dealer cost, other sites that can help you run car history reports on used Canadian cars. This section will save Canadians money. Also, be sure to view the "Canadian new car buyer's checklist" and use Canadian sites like CarCost Canada, to help you with dealer pricing. Useful Web Sites For Canadian Car Buyers These are the best sites for Canadian car buyers to use. These sites can save you a lot of money, while arming you to defend yourself against car dealer scams pulled on Canadian car buyers every day. You're a fool to not have the information from these sites in your folder when you visit a car dealer. Please note: Many of the U.S. based loan sites such as E-Loan, Capital One Auto Finance, and extended warranty companies do not service Canada. Please do not email me asking who does, because I don't know. If we find any, we'll post it here. TheCarMagazine.com If you're a Canadian looking for the best info, this Canadian automotive magazine online has road tests, car reviews, car builders, car recalls, new and used car info, leasing tips and advice, in both French and English. This is the site to use. Lease Busters You can take over a lease and get hundreds or even thousands of dollars in CASH in your pocket. There's big money in getting people out of a lease in Canada. Canadian Car Dealer Cost & Car Prices Click Image For Canadian Car Pricing We get tons of questions from Canadian buyers who can't find dealer cost. Finally, Canadians can look up dealer cost at CarCost Canada. They list Canadian car prices in Canadian dollars as well as the dealer invoice price, and rebates instantly online so you can get a better car deal. Also Get Canadian Factory Rebate and Incentive programs. Click Here to "Get Dealer Cost Now" on Canadian vehicles. Having this secret dealer cost information is crucial to getting the lowest price on your new car. At last, salvation for our friends to the north. The reports appear online instantly and give details on the base model and options, as well as the MSRP price and the dealer's cost. If there are any rebates and incentives, those are listed, and they even list the average national mark-up on the cars. That gives you a great start on determining how much to offer the dealer. Quotes are different for each one, so get a consensus. Spend a few minutes now and save a few thousand dollars later. It's very hard for Canadians to get good pricing data on cars, because most of the auto related web sites only list cars in U.S. Dollars. We don't know if the pricing can be simply converted to Canadian dollars or not, as we believe Canada has it's own type of pricing. Knowing this pricing in advance can be very advantageous for you. Here's an email I got from a Canadian car buyer: YearMakeModel: 2003 HONDA CR-V EX Invoice: $27,394 MSRP: $29,850 Negotiated: $28,146 Feedback: (Canadian prices) Thanks for the good advice! Made buying a car easy, and I was happy to know that I wasn't getting ripped off! After I made the deal, I entered the deal back into your "Buyer's offer" spreadsheet, and I had talked him down to 3% profit! Thanks again for keeping money in my pocket.

Canadians also have a tough time getting a good deal on a car, and we get numerous email complaints from Canada about some really nasty car dealer scams. Most of these scams occur because previously in Canada, you had no where to turn to for good pricing data, so dealers can take advantage of you. You had no way to tell if you got a good deal.

Our tips here on verygoodppc.com apply to Canadian car buyers as well, but only a few of the sites are usable for Canadians. We review many sites for Americans to use that either sell cars directly to you or use their volume of users to bargain down prices for you. But many of these sites are only usable in the U.S.

So we made this page for our Canadian visitors that lists just the Canadian sites. Be sure to use these sites reviewed below before reading the rest of our chapters on car buying so you don't waste your time at sites that don't cater to Canadians.

Used car Canada: Don't Buy A Used Lemon! All About CARFAX Check That Used Car Before You Buy. Run A FREE Lemon Check. The CARFAX Vehicle History Report is your most powerful tool for used car buying. Why do you need it? It will save you thousands of dollars in losses, safety issues, and emotional misery. Enter the VIN# of the car and they search over 550 million vehicle records for rolled back odometers, junked cars, and accidents. Don't just run the free lemon check, very few cars are returned as lemons. You must run the full report on the car. Free lemon checks don't really tell you anything. CARFAX gets data from auctions, DMV records, car rental agencies, leases, & inspection stations where odometer readings are collected. If my car had 70,000 miles on my last inspection, and I sell it to you with 20,000 miles, the CARFAX Report alerts you about the rollback, saving you from my scam. It can tell if the car was totaled in a wreck, returned as a lemon, flooded, or if the title was laundered from "junk" back to "used" status. Even without a VIN# you can search cars in your state that are odometer fraud vehicles, or salvaged. When we checked, Florida had over 700,000 problem vehicles, California had 548,000, New York had 709,000, and Texas had 1.7 million! Dateline NBC did a report using CARFAX on Hurricane Andrew cars in Florida with junked titles being laundered back to "used car" status in other states. The Florida DMV approves 350 cars every month to be reinstated from junk to "used car". In 1999 Hurricane Floyd flooded or totaled 15,000 cars in the Carolinas. Don't rely on dealers or private owners, verify their claims with CARFAX. Credit unions and dealers use them religiously, so should you and I. Enter the VIN#, the report appears online, with title and registration data, certified odometer readings, liens and more. Features we like best about CARFAX: Pay them $19.99 and they give you 30 days to run title checks on unlimited vehicles. The free lemon check. Works in Canada too. $5,000 Free Clean Title History Guarantee Coverage. In some states, they can tell you if the car has been in an accident. New states are adding all the time. Pay for a single report or for unlimited reports. It's like an all you can eat buffet.

Competition gets you the best price. Too many people walk into a dealership without knowing how much they can buy that same car for using other sources and if you don't know in advance what you should be paying, you're in deep trouble. You need to fill out their online forms to get a free purchase quote. Make sure you have the dealer's cost and profit margin information from CarCost Canada. Once they see your lower price quotes from these honest online sites, you'll know you've stopped them dead in their tracks. The deal will proceed on your terms, not theirs.

Before you buy any new car in Canada, be sure to Take a look at the "Canadian new car buyer's checklist"

If you plan to buy a used car in Canada be sure to read our article on buying used cars and avoiding scams.

Now that you've gotten the information you need from the Canadian specific auto web sites, you are ready to start the article on car buying. All the other tips and scams that we reveal are applicable to Canada as well, so be sure to read all 7 chapters of the article. Before You Forget, Email This Article To A Friend.

Jump to any chapter. I suggest you read each chapter in order.
Chapter 1 Get your credit report, how to get a car loan, scams, online car loans, first time car loans, budget & loan excel spreadsheets, credit repair.	Chapter 2 Reviews of internet discount car buying sites, new car prices, find dealer's invoice cost. Get a new car quote.	Chapter 3 What to bring to a dealership, what to say, how to act, what not to do, what to look for at the dealership, and a glossary of all dealer fees.	Chapter 4 How to read dealer invoices, finding dealer's cost, how much to offer the dealer, buyers offer spreadsheet, examples, trade-ins.
Chapter 5 Negotiating tips, dealer scams & tricks to watch out for, dealing with aggressive salespeople, choosing between rebates or low APR loans.	Chapter 6 Close the deal, avoid needless extras, scams in the business office, extended warranty scams, options, buying warranties online.	Chapter 7 Actual misleading dealer ads, and what to do when you've been ripped off, customer satisfaction surveys, how I bought my Lexus.
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