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Car dealers had a few more hours to get reimbursed for their Cash for Clunkers deals after the government extended the deadline for filing applications for the $3 billion government incentives into Tuesday evening.

All sales under the program ended Monday. But after already pushing back the deadline to submit records for the car rebate deals to noon Tuesday, the Transportation Department said the deadline would be extended to 7 p.m. St. Louis time.

Before the extension, all the paperwork was due to be submitted by Monday night, but an influx of submissions shut down the government’s computer filing system temporarily. Transportation officials said the computer system was up and running on Tuesday. Alex Perdikis, executive vice president of the Koons Automotive Companies dealer chain, said employees weren’t able to access the claims system for about 45 minutes Tuesday afternoon. "It’s a waiting game every time you put a deal in. You cross your fingers and hope the site is up," Perdikis said.

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