TheAutoSchool.com would like to recommend these great links to help your car buying, selling, maintenance, repair, and car safety needs for the surrounding CSRA area.

Automotive Safety & Ratings

National Hwy Safety- NHTSA is dedicated to achieving the highest standards of excellence in motor vehicle and highway safety. The agency strives to exceed the expectations of its customers through its core values of Integrity, Service and Leadership.

NHTSA's Crash Test Ratings-NCAP stands for New Car Assessment Program. If you’ve heard of "government 5-star ratings," then you know NCAP. NCAP is part of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which is part of the U.S. Department of Transportation.

JD Power Auto Ratings- Established in 1968, J.D. Power and Associates is a global marketing information firm that conducts independent and unbiased surveys of customer satisfaction, product quality and buyer behavior. Today, the firm’s services include industry-wide syndicated studies; proprietary (commissioned) tracking studies; media studies; forecasting; and training services, as well as business operations analyses, and consultancies on customer satisfaction trends. On April 1, 2005, J.D. Power and Associates became a business unit of the McGraw-Hill Companies.

Consumer Reports Auto ratings-Consumer Reports® and ConsumerReports.org® are published by Consumers Union, an expert, independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to work for a fair, just, and safe marketplace for all consumers and to empower consumers to protect themselves.

Insurance Institute for Highway Safety-The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is an independent, nonprofit, scientific and educational organization dedicated to reducing the losses — deaths, injuries, and property damage — from crashes on the nation's highways.

Automotive Pricing & Values

Car Fax- The most trusted provider of vehicle history information, CARFAX is relied on by millions of consumers each year. Using the unique 17-character vehicle identification number (VIN) found on vehicle dashboards and title documents, we instantly generate a detailed Vehicle History Report on any used car or light truck.

Kelly Blue Book- Guiding car buyers for 80 years.

Edmunds-  Edmunds.com, Inc. was founded in 1966 for the purpose of publishing new and used automotive pricing guides to assist automobile buyers. We are headquartered in Santa Monica, California and maintain a satellite office near Detroit.

NADA- The NADA Official Used Car Guide Company has been an industry leaderin automotive pricing guides.

Free Credit Report-  FreeCreditReport.com is part of a family of online consumer credit reporting sites belonging to ConsumerInfo.com, an Experian company. ConsumerInfo was founded in 1995 to give consumers quick, easy, and inexpensive access to their credit histories. It is now the leading provider of online consumer credit reports, credit scores, credit monitoring, and other credit-related information. ConsumerInfo provides credit monitoring to its more than 3.1 million members and has delivered more than 14 million credit reports on the web. As part of the Experian family, it continues to grow its membership base and develop innovative products to help consumers better understand their credit.

Automotive Lease Guide-  Are a leading provider of residual value information, analytical data products, software solutions, and consultation to the automotive industry. Please browse our web site for more information about our products and services, news involving ALG, and become a member to our online services. If you are a consumer or lessee, please visit Leasing 101 under the Consumers section for basic information on automotive leasing.

IntelliChoice- Founded in 1986, IntelliChoice grew from the commitment to empower consumers to make better purchase decisions by providing them with independent and essential automotive information and tools. In 2006, IntelliChoice will be celebrating our 20th anniversary, a major milestone of which we are very proud.

Consumer Credit Agencies

TransUnion-National repository of consumer credit information.

EquiFax-Equifax compiles credit reporting data from many sources and creates a credit file that reflects your personal credit history including your FICO® score.

Experian-Experian is a global leader in providing value-added information solutions to organizations and consumers. Experian provides information, analytics, decision-making solutions and processing services.

Annual Credit Report- AnnualCreditReport.com is a centralized service for consumers to request annual credit reports. It was created by the three nationwide consumer credit reporting companies, Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.

TrueCredit-TrueCredit's unique combination of business and consumer offerings enables the Company to empower millions of Americans to better manage their borrowing and to optimize the consumer lending businesses of TrueCredit's financial services clients.

Government

Georgia Department of Motor Vehicle Safety-Agency responsible for vehicle licensing, titling, and registration. Includes online renewals, vehicle compliances, and news.

South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles-Agency responsible for vehicle licensing, titling, and registration. Includes online renewals, vehicle compliances, and news.

Financial

Home Equity Loan - Car Loan - Mortgage Loans - OfficialBankLoan.com - Specializing in research for Car Loans, Mortgage Loans, Home Equity Loans. We have a full list of comparsion companies to fight in giving you the right loan.

Other sites you should know

AAA-Emergency road services and providing maps, although fairly well known, are not the only member services provided by AAA. A member-owned organization, AAA is dedicated to making the road of life as smooth as possible. After more than 100 years of experience in meeting member needs, AAA now offers even more products and services than ever before. Included in these member services are an array of travel assistance and information services, car purchase assistance and repair services, financial services, as well as credit and insurance products.

National Insurance Crime Bureau- The National Insurance Crime Bureau is a not-for-profit organization that receives support from approximately 1,000 property/casualty insurance companies. The NICB partners with insurers and law enforcement agencies to facilitate the identification, detection and prosecution of insurance criminals.

Credit Report Information 4 U- People usually  think they have much worse credit than the credit report information reflects.Your credit report information can mean the difference between a “yes” and a “no” on your next large purchase or on your next charge card. We pretty much know what details are listed on the tell-all expose of our debt history. The basic information includes name, address, telephone number, social security number and your date of birth.

MyAutocar.com - the web's most comprehensive social networking community for automobile enthusiasts.

MyAutoInsuranceWeb.com - Here you can find coverage levels of auto insurance, information about cancellation and advice on how to choose a policy, deductibles and saving money tips. Examples of auto insurance frauds are also described.