Our Mission
To provide retail automotive dealerships with accurate, comprehensive, and highly specialized sales, finance, advertising, and vehicle registration compliance services and products delivered and developed by extensively trained and experienced personnel of the utmost moral character.

Company Background
Auto Advisory Services (AAS) has been providing assistance to California automobile dealers since 1975. We are dedicated to providing the most comprehensive compliance services and products available. Our business has grown and expanded largely by referral of one dealer to another. Our client base consists of nearly 600 California dealerships, including dealers from the largest dealer groups in the country.

AAS was established by Bill Lowrey. As a former special investigator for the DMV, Bill discovered many dealers were simply unaware of the legal complexities involved with doing business in California. Bill then set out to build a company with one purpose: to help dealerships prevent small compliance problems from becoming large litigation or administrative headaches by helping dealers understand the compliance issues they face.

Today, AAS is the leader in dealership compliance issues. In 2007, our compliance consultants performed over 1700 dealership compliance audits. Our Hotline receives, on average, approximately 600 calls per month. We now have 29 employees, and five independent industry consultants.

Our consultants are comprised of:
• Attorneys
• Former DMV investigators and area commanders
• A former Chief of Investigations for the Department of Consumer Affairs
• A former Deputy Chief of DMV Investigations Division
• Vehicle registration technicians
• A former corporate controller for a large dealer group
• A former GMAC Branch Manager
Each consultant is armed with many years of industry experience and all new consultants are extensively trained and tested. The end result; solid advice you can trust to reduce your exposure to enforcement activity and litigation.

Unlike many companies, AAS does not offer any F&I products. We are decisively independent and can provide you with an uncompromising and critical look into your finance department. We offer many services and products, all geared towards helping dealers comply with the maze of regulations and laws affecting dealership operations today.

Our services and products include:
• Compliance Hotline
• On-site Sales, F&I, Advertising and DMV Compliance Audits
• Advertising Review
• Monthly Newsletter and Legal Article
• Safeguards Rule Implementation
• On-site Vehicle Registration Service
• Educational Seminars
• California Vehicle Finance and Compliance Documents Guide
• Automotive Dealership Information Safeguards & Identity Theft Prevention Manual (Including Red Flag Rules)
• Automotive Dealership Do Not Call & Telemarketing Guide
• Litigation Support (Expert Witness, Auditing and Consulting)
• Registration Processing Unit for DMVdesk™ (Electronic Vehicle Registration Software)
No other company offers dealerships more in terms of compliance products and services. Ask around, our reputation is our greatest asset.