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Cherrywood Auto is open Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Saturday, 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. We are closed Sunday. The early weekday start suits people who want to leave a car before work, and the Saturday morning is the easiest window if weekdays are difficult. If you are coming near the end of the day, call 516-785-9378 first so someone can be ready for you.

We are at 1386 Wantagh Ave in Wantagh, New York, at the corner of Wantagh Avenue and Beltagh Avenue in Nassau County. That puts us a short drive from Bellmore, Merrick, Seaford, Levittown, and Massapequa. The directions page has a map and the turns from the main roads, which helps if you are coming off the Southern State or Sunrise Highway.

You can stop by during business hours, but calling ahead is better for both sides of the building. For a vehicle, a call confirms it is still here and gives us time to have it ready to drive. For service, a call lets us match the work to an open bay instead of asking you to wait around. Either way, 516-785-9378 reaches us.

There is parking at 1386 Wantagh Ave. If you are dropping a car off for service, pull in and come to the office rather than leaving the keys in the vehicle. Mornings are the busiest part of the day and the lot fills up with cars waiting for work, so if there is nowhere obvious to put yours, call 516-785-9378 and someone will tell you where.

Yes. Cherrywood Auto sells used vehicles and runs a full service center at one address, 1386 Wantagh Ave in Wantagh. There is no second location and no separate shop across town. It also means the people who would repair a car after you buy it are the same people who look after it before it goes out the door.

It depends on the visit. To drive a vehicle, bring a valid driver license. If you might buy the same day, add proof of insurance and a way to pay a deposit. If a trade is coming with you, bring its registration, every key you have, and the title or the payoff details from your lender. For service, the car and the key are enough.

Yes. Saturday hours are 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., which is the easiest window for most people who cannot get here during the week. It is also the busiest part of the week, so calling 516-785-9378 ahead of a Saturday visit is worth the two minutes, particularly if you want to drive a specific vehicle or leave a car for service. We are closed Sunday.

The lender does. Cherrywood Auto is a dealership, not a bank, so we take your application and submit it, but the approval, the rate, and the term are the lender decision, based on credit history, income, the down payment, and the vehicle itself. Nobody here can promise an approval in advance, and you should be wary of anyone who does.

A valid driver license, proof of income such as recent pay stubs, proof of where you live such as a utility bill, and proof of insurance. If you are self-employed, bring bank statements or tax returns instead of stubs. If a trade is part of the deal, bring its registration and payoff information. Missing paperwork is the most common reason an application sits still.

Yes, and that is usually the better order. Starting with the application tells you a realistic payment range before you fall for a particular vehicle, which makes the whole search shorter and calmer. The get pre-approved page explains what the application asks for. A pre-approval is a working figure, not a promise, and the final terms still come from the lender.

No. It is an estimate built from a price, a down payment, a term, and a rate that you choose. Your real payment depends on the rate a lender approves, on taxes and fees, and on any trade equity applied to the deal. Use the calculator to compare scenarios and set a budget, then treat the lender offer as the actual number.

It is worth having the conversation. Lenders look at more than a score, including how long you have been at your job, your income, how much you can put down, and what the vehicle is worth. The bad credit auto loans page explains what tends to help an application. No one can guarantee an approval, and any dealer who claims otherwise is guessing.

If your trade is worth more than you still owe on it, the difference works as a down payment and reduces the amount financed. If you owe more than it is worth, that gap has to be paid or rolled into the new loan, which raises the balance and the payment. Either way it moves the numbers, so it belongs in the conversation early.

Enough that the loan does not start out larger than the car is worth. A vehicle loses value the moment it is registered to you, so roughly 10 to 20 percent down usually keeps the balance under the value from the beginning, which protects you if the car is totaled early in the term. The down payment page goes through the tradeoffs.

Call 516-785-9378 and describe what the car is doing. That conversation decides how long the visit needs to be and which bay the work belongs in, so it is more useful than simply asking for a slot. Drop-off works well here, because the shop opens at 7:30 a.m. and the car can be looked at during the day while you are at work.

Three things: what changed, when it happens, and how worried you are. A noise, a light, a vibration, a smell, or a leak is the starting point. Then narrow it down. Cold or warm, turning or braking, at low speed or on the highway, constant or occasional. That detail can remove an hour of diagnostic guessing before the car is on the lift.

Yes. Cherrywood Auto is a full service center as well as a dealership, and most of the vehicles in the shop on any given day were bought elsewhere. Where the car came from makes no difference to how it is treated. The service center page lists the areas covered, from diagnostics and brakes to exhaust, suspension, cooling, and engine work.

Because the findings are sorted that way. They fall into four groups: safety items to deal with before you drive it, conditions that cause further damage if they are left, routine maintenance that is coming due, and items worth keeping an eye on. You get those categories rather than one long list, so you can decide what happens today.

Stop if the temperature gauge is climbing, the check engine light is flashing, an oil pressure warning appears, you smell fuel or exhaust inside the car, or the steering or brakes feel wrong. Those conditions get worse quickly, and driving on can turn a repair into a replacement. Pull over somewhere safe and call 516-785-9378 for guidance.

It depends entirely on the job. An oil change or a bulb is a short wait. Diagnostics, brake work, exhaust repair, or anything that needs a part ordered is not, and saying otherwise only strands you in a chair for the afternoon. Ask when you call and you will get an honest read on the time before you choose to wait or leave the car.

For routine maintenance, no. Having the work done at an independent shop does not by itself void a manufacturer warranty, as long as the required services are performed on schedule and you keep the records. Warranty repairs themselves are handled by a franchised dealer for that brand. Keep every invoice, because documentation is what proves the maintenance was done.

Yes, and it has to be in the name of the person registering the vehicle. New York will not issue a registration without proof of liability coverage that matches the registrant exactly, which is why insurance gets arranged before delivery rather than after. Have the policy bound and the insurance identification cards in hand on the day you collect the car.

The registrant name, and the two have to match. If the car is registered to you, the policy has to be in your name. A policy in a parent name or a spouse name will not register a vehicle in yours. This catches people out regularly, so if your situation is unusual, settle it with your insurance company before the pickup date.

By where you live, not where you buy. A Nassau County resident pays the Nassau County rate even if the vehicle is purchased in another county. A dealership collects it as part of the paperwork rather than leaving you to pay it at the DMV. The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance sets and publishes the current rates.

In New York the trade-in allowance from a registered dealer reduces the amount the tax is calculated on, so tax applies to the difference rather than to the full price of the car you are buying. That is one reason a trade can be worth more than the raw figure suggests. The Tax Department is the authority on how it is applied.

Usually yes. New York plates belong to the registrant rather than to the vehicle, so plates from a car you own can generally be transferred to a replacement. The registration record has to be updated and the insurance has to match. Mention it before the paperwork is drawn up, and check anything unusual with the DMV, which makes the final call.

For a purchase here, the dealership prepares and submits the title transfer, the registration, and the sales tax form, so a DMV trip is not normally part of buying a car. A private-party sale is different, and you file it yourself with the signed title, a bill of sale, proof of insurance, and the tax form. Bring your license either way.

The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles for registration, titles, plates, licensing, and inspection requirements, and the Department of Taxation and Finance for sales tax. Both publish the current rules, and both revise them from time to time, which is why we point you there rather than quoting figures that may already be out of date.