Car dealers secretly add thousands in unwanted loan products
Dealers routinely bundle unrequested warranty and insurance add-ons into auto loans at signing, inflating loan principal by thousands of dollars without buyer awareness. Consumers discover the charges only after reviewing paperwork and face difficulty cancelling or recovering funds. This is a well-documented structural problem in auto retail financing.
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