Driving in the midst of one of the northeast’s worst winter storms my four year old car simply stopped moving.  I was stuck out in the cold and needed a tow.  I called my roadside assistance provider, autoroadservice.com, who got me and my car to the nearest auto repair facility. Unfortunately, I found out that I had to foot the more than $800 repair bill for the transmission cable that somehow snapped in the middle of nowhere.  Not what I needed to hear right around the holidays when cash was tight.  The car only had 35,000 miles but was just out of warranty I was told.

It got me thinking: If I am going to keep this car I really need to look into used car warranties.  After all, I had heard the horror stories from my friends about their used cars turning into sinkholes that just kept sucking money from their wallets.

Don’t fall into the same trap Tom did.  Purchase an auto warranty before it’s too late and your used car begins to tap into your hard earned savings.  Owning an used car can cost you hundreds to thousands of dollars per year.  Protect yourself from unforeseen repair bills with an aftermarket auto warranty.