Titles and compliance

What is Buyers Guide?

Also called: FTC Used Car Rule window sticker

The Buyers Guide is the FTC-required window form on used vehicles offered for sale, showing whether the car comes with a warranty or is sold as is.

It has to be prepared, filled in and displayed before you offer the vehicle for sale, not produced at signing. Displaying it late is the violation dealers get caught on.

What it says becomes part of the contract. Its terms override anything contrary in the sales agreement, so a Guide marked with warranty coverage binds you regardless of what the paperwork says.

Source: 16 CFR 455.2 (Used Car Rule)

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Related terms

Deal jacket

The deal jacket is the complete file for one sale: buyer, vehicle, money, and every signed disclosure, kept together so the deal can be reconstructed years later.

As is

As is means the vehicle is sold with no dealer warranty, and the buyer pays for anything that breaks after the sale.

General information for US dealers, not legal advice. Rules change and vary by state, so confirm specifics with your state agency or counsel.