<prompt> Human: So a few months ago, I was ready to pull the trigger on a car at a dealership, but for an unrelated reason, did not end up moving forward.Last week, I purchasedfinanced a small amount on a different car. When they ran my credit score to approve the loan, my score came back much lower than I anticipated. I looked into it and saw that the previous dealership ran 5 hard inquiries all in the same day, which explained in my credit report why my score dropped roughly 40 points.Ive never heard of a dealership running 5 hard inquiries. In fact this last dealership only did 1 hard inquiry and was still able to give me a great rate.Is there anything I can do to redeem this? Should I call the first dealership? Should I call the credit agency? Any advice would be greatly appreciated  <response>: Its very common for a dealership to submit applications to many banks. 5 is not at all unreasonable.I seriously doubt it affected your score 40 points. Much more likely is that your credit utilization is a little higher now or something else is slightly different. Also FYI there are different formulas used to calculate your score so that could also explain the difference. 