# Opinion | Guess how much cheaper your auto loan would be if dealers had to play fair

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**Created:** [June 27, 2019, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/opinion-guess-how-much-cheaper-your-auto-loan-would-be-if-dealers-had-to-play-fair/143110 "2019-06-27T14:15:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/opinion-guess-how-much-cheaper-your-auto-loan-would-be-if-dealers-had-to-play-fair/143110/1 "2019-06-27T14:15:56Z")

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> At a time when government agencies should be on the lookout for ways to better curtail dealership lending abuses, federal officials are scaling back enforcement.

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**Author:** ![ledhed75](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f6c823/32.png) [@ledhed75](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ledhed75)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/opinion-guess-how-much-cheaper-your-auto-loan-would-be-if-dealers-had-to-play-fair/143110/2 "2019-06-27T14:45:29Z")

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Yet another reason that I’ve taken to arranging the car loan with my bank outside the dealer.

Cuts down on about 90% of the back and forth crap with the finance guy.