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• - Offers free advice, shopping tips and links to consumer protection agencies.
  
• - Offers vehicle history reports, using Experian data with unique supplements and packaging, for a fee.
  
• - Vendor of vehicle history reports that enable consumers to check for problems with used vehicles prior to purchase.
  
• - Consultants that assist consumers seeking to maximize their auto insurance settlements.
  
• - Dimished value and loss of market value report service.
  
• - ISA conducts inspection services for both private and public auto sales, service and insurance claims.
  
• - Information on vehicle recalls, technical service bulletins, safety issues ongoing research and development projects.
  
• - Offers services related to Diminished Value, Total Loss and Fair Market Value appraisals.
  
• - Tracks gasoline prices at local stations from reports provided by consumers.
  
• - Auto club offering breakdown assistance, trip routing, key recovery and discounts.
  
• - Provides information and links regarding the various components and technology that make vehicles safe.
  
• - An online magazine about extended warranties with information, articles, editorials and a forum.
  
• - Safe vehicle selection criteria including a procedure for selecing a safer vehicle using crash test and fatality data.
  
• - Consulting firm that empowers consumers to recover damages for diminished value on their vehicles after an accident.
  
• - Information compiled from depositions, trial testimony, discovery documents and public records regarding the Chrysler Gen3 safety belt buckles.
  
• - Database of gasoline prices as reported by consumers.
  
• - Law firm site with information pertaining to SUV safety & rollover ratings. Firm provides legal help with lawsuits involving SUV rollover accidents.
  
• - Consumers may report a vehicle theft, search a database of stolen vehicles, provide tips to aid in the recovery of a vehicle.
  
• - Provides, with the help of an example, "buyer beware" information on aftermarket auto warranties and sales tactics. Includes information for persons who have been victimized by unscrupulous operators.
  
• - Provides automobile safety and recall information including several top 10 lists of various safety-related categories.
  
• - Site selling a guide book that helps consumers purchase vehicles and avoid getting ripped off.
  
• - Diminished value, loss of market value and post repair inspection specialists. Reports based on actual market data.
  
• - How-to insurance claim author Dan Baldyga offers expert information regarding the evaluation of personal injury claims.
  
• - Information to help consumers resolve car problems, warranty and repair disputes with car dealers.
  
• - Used vehicle reports including vehicle history, government recalls, crash test results, lemon checks, trouble spots, retail prices and shopping tips
  
• - Provides comprehensive information and links regarding the safety and consumer issues of motor vehicle lighting products.
  
• - Allows consumers to input, update and share information on gas prices and gas stations. Wireless-enabled to assist travelers in finding gas stations and prices.
  
• - Provides consumers with information, education & documentation services for Vehicle Diminished Value & Total Loss Valuation, to assist in maximizing claim compensation.
  
• - Get tips on buying new and used cars, including auto warranty, financing and insurance information. Also discusses ratings and reviews, customizing cars, and getting credit reports before buying an automobile.
  
• - Provides unbiased pricing information and consumer advice on purchasing a new or used vehicle
  
• - Articles, tips and worksheets to educate consumers on auto buying and ownership and avoid mistakes and problems.
  
• - Provides insurance advice for consumers including diminished value claims.
  
• - The American Automobile Association's media site for retail gas prices. Lists many different urban areas.
  
• - Local, real-time gasoline prices. Canada and USA only.
  
• - Reprint of a 1992 Road Rider magazine article regarding oil additives and whether or not they are harmful to internal combustion engines.
  
• - Criticism of Consumer Reports car and truck ratings.
  
• - Automotive history reporting service offers instant checks for salvage, odometer discrepancies and other damage.
  
• - Provides gasoline prices for all gas stations in all 50 states in USA. Also offers rebate gas cards.
  
• - Consumer provides background and details about two separate cases of litigation with Ford and an auto dealership.