Say No To Car Extras TO SAVE MONEY

Your car dealer may to sell you rustproof treatment and fabric protection at $100 a pop, and paint protection for as much as $250. "Usually these extras are the dealer's way to squeeze more money out of you," says Bob Elliston, author of What Car Dealers Won't Tell You. Do-it-yourself fabric protector costs about $10 a bottle. Paint protection is unnecessary, since most cars have many layers of paint. And skip rustproof treatment: cars come already treated so that they won't need it.