Car Buying Tips

Guides and advice for purchasing new and used vehicles

Car Buying Tips

Train Your Team on Holdback and Pack Accounting in 90 Minutes, Not a Week

Most dealerships waste an entire week training their teams on holdback and pack accounting because they're teaching it wrong. They pull everyone off the lot, s...

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Training Your Team on Wholesale Dealer-to-Dealer Sales Without Losing a Week

Why Your Team Doesn't Understand How to Sell Cars to Other Dealers You've got 40 used cars sitting on your lot right now. Three of them have been there 65 days...

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Here's the uncomfortable truth about your stale inventory pricing policy: your team doesn't actually understand it.

Here's the uncomfortable truth about your stale inventory pricing policy: your team doesn't actually understand it. Oh, they've seen the email. Maybe they sat ...

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Train Your Team on Lot Lighting and Nighttime Merchandising—Without Losing a Week

The Lighting Problem Most Dealers Don't Know They Have Your lot lights come on at dusk, and your team thinks the job is done. Wrong. Most dealerships are losin...

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Training Your Team on Certified Pre-Owned Eligibility Screening Without Losing a Week

Back in 2008, the certified pre-owned market barely existed for most independent dealers. Franchises had their own programs, sure, but the real CPO boom came la...

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Ground Stock Audits Don't Have to Kill Your Week: Here's How to Train Your Team Instead

Imagine this: it's Monday morning, and your general manager just made the call to do a full ground stock audit. Your whole team knows why it's necessary—you've ...

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Train Your Team on Pre-Sold Inventory Without Losing a Week

Most dealerships spend more time arguing about new inventory process changes than it actually takes to implement them. You decide to overhaul how your team han...

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Training Your Team on Loaner and Demo Rotation Into Retail Without Losing a Week

According to industry data, the average dealership loses between five and seven days of retail selling time every time a loaner or demo vehicle cycles back into...

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Train Your Team on Recon Parts Flow Without Losing a Week

Back in 1952, the average used car sat on a dealership lot for about six weeks before it sold. Today, the internet has compressed that timeline to something clo...

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Train Your Team on VIN Decoding Accuracy in Inventory Systems Without Losing a Week

According to industry data, roughly 23% of dealer inventory systems contain at least one critical VIN decode error—and most dealership managers don't catch them...

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Train Your Team on Curb Appeal Audits in 90 Minutes—No Week-Long Shutdown Required

How many vehicles on your lot right now are losing $200 to $400 a month in potential margin because nobody's actually trained your team on what curb appeal real...

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Training Your Team on Days-Supply by Vehicle Segment Without Losing a Week

Nearly 40% of dealerships report that their technicians and detail teams can't accurately explain why a specific used car's reconditioning timeline matters to t...

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