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For car loans try sites such as Capital One Auto Finance or E-LOAN, with lower APR than banks, & approval online in minutes.  You can get new car loans, or used car loans. They Fed Ex your check the same day, so you could apply today, and pay for your car tomorrow, it's that quick.  Finance your car in advance and avoid all the warranty and window etch loan scams at the dealer. Try car buying sites like InvoiceDealers, Cars.com, CarsDirect, Autoweb, Autos.com and Edmunds.com to lookup how much dealers pay for cars, and get free car purchase quotes.

Why you must get a copy of your driving record
I highly suggest you get a copy of your drivers license record  BEFORE shopping for insurance.  Many of us have errors in our driving report that will drive up insurance rates.  A few years ago I paid a traffic ticket, but they never credited my driving record, nor did they credit me for going to driving school!   How did I find out?  Allstate canned me!  That's not the way you want to find an error on your driving record.  I saw an article in the paper where the clerk of the court admitted they had a 20% error rate, and shrugged it off as normal.  So lucky 20% me had my license suspended by mistake.  Don't let this happen to you! Trust me, you don't want to go through what I did to fix it. Be sure to get your Driving Record.. If you go to driving school or pay any fines, keep the receipt in your wallet for 3 years or until you renew your license! If you get pulled over by the police, it's your only salvation from being dragged off to jail for driving with a suspended license.  Just like your credit history determines your loan approval, your driving record determines how cheap your insurance will be.
 
Used Car Warning:
Always run a car title history check on a used car. Recent vehicle disasters that might show up in a car title history:

• 4 Hurricanes, Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jean battered the Southeast in 2004
• Tropical Storm Allison Flooded 20,000 Houston homes and cars in 2001
• In 1999 Hurricane Floyd flooded or totaled 15,000 cars in the Carolinas
• In 1999 Hurricane Irene flooded hundreds of cars in South Florida

Many will be totaled and have their titles branded by insurance companies as "Flooded". Don't let one a salvaged wreck end up in your driveway, always run a CARFAX Vehicle History Report  before you buy.

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. 

CARFAXgets 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, more.