Website that will pull up your window sticker; wish I could get sales contract as easily.

[howardbc]

A Ford employee recently told me about this very neat website - Research Maniacs - that will pull up your car's original window sticker if you enter the VIN number. Very cool.

 

I just wish there was also an easy way to get a copy of my sales contract in digital form. I asked the sales person to send it to me that way but he just sent me a partial scan. Why do dealerships still use the old-fashioned legal form? It's hard to read too. I have a copier/scanner but it only works with normal-sized documents. Anybody have any ideas?

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

[jeff_h]

How about scanning the top in one scan, bottom in another scan, then join them together into one doc and save as one file?

[howardbc]

Thanks, Jeff_h. Yes, I've considered doing that and may yet get around to it. But the original copy is on pink legal paper with light print (probably from a dot-matrix printer), so the results won't be very legible, not to mention confusing for not being in 1 image.

 

I'm just saying that the data HAS to be somewhere in the dealer's computer files. So why can't they provide their customers with a good copy? I can't think of another business (that is computer-literate) who has such backward sales contracts. Doctors and insurance companies insist on sending paper copies because their lawyers must tell they have to, but why don't car dealerships use the technology that's out there?

 

The dealer I bought from is huge and the owner has many other dealerships here in the Phoenix area, so we're not talking about Billy Bob's family dealership.