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Hello all!
I've been bouncing around the forum and finally decided to pose a question, but I'm in an interesting situation. Long story short, I ordered a brand new car thinking full and well I'd be able to afford it, but the more I check this forum, the more scared I get that I won't be approved for a loan.
Yearly income: 62K (started with a new company 6 months ago in the same field as my last job, needed to move but theres never been a gap in paychecks)
Rent: $760
Car: 40K
Debt to Income: 35% total. 1 revolving, 1 installment (student loan my mom set up in my name??)
Anticipated Downpayment: 3-4K
No late payments/negative marks on my report
FICO (FAKO??) scores pulled on 2/4/12 (used Equifax's site to pull these):
Equifax: 738
TransUnion: 736
Experian: 746
Here's the situation I've got. The car arrives in about a month, so I'm working all angles and numbers to see if I'll actually get approved but I think my situation is different than most. As you can see, I've got pretty decent credit scores, but those were all based off of my credit card I've had for about 5 years, but I've never had an auto loan. What are the odds I'll get approved? Will I get slapped with some outrageous percentage? I'm looking to do 60 months, but I should be able to have that paid off in the early 50 range.
*Side note: I just joined a CU when I started the new job, and tried a preapproval loan from them online, but got denied because of "lack of credit history". A lot has changed since then though: credit card debt went down, been employeed longer, and I actually have a down payment building up. I'd rather not have to have a cosigner if possible, but that's looking more likely each day...
@Anonymous wrote:Hello all!
I've been bouncing around the forum and finally decided to pose a question, but I'm in an interesting situation. Long story short, I ordered a brand new car thinking full and well I'd be able to afford it, but the more I check this forum, the more scared I get that I won't be approved for a loan.
Yearly income: 62K (started with a new company 6 months ago in the same field as my last job, needed to move but theres never been a gap in paychecks)
Rent: $760
Car: 40K
Debt to Income: 35% total. 1 revolving, 1 installment (student loan my mom set up in my name??)
Anticipated Downpayment: 3-4K
No late payments/negative marks on my report
FICO (FAKO??) scores pulled on 2/4/12 (used Equifax's site to pull these):
Equifax: 738
TransUnion: 736
Experian: 746
Here's the situation I've got. The car arrives in about a month, so I'm working all angles and numbers to see if I'll actually get approved but I think my situation is different than most. As you can see, I've got pretty decent credit scores, but those were all based off of my credit card I've had for about 5 years, but I've never had an auto loan. What are the odds I'll get approved? Will I get slapped with some outrageous percentage? I'm looking to do 60 months, but I should be able to have that paid off in the early 50 range.
*Side note: I just joined a CU when I started the new job, and tried a preapproval loan from them online, but got denied because of "lack of credit history". A lot has changed since then though: credit card debt went down, been employeed longer, and I actually have a down payment building up. I'd rather not have to have a cosigner if possible, but that's looking more likely each day...
Pull FICO scores from here and get an idea of where you stand. Get your CC util below 9%.
If possible arrange for 5 % - 10 % more down payment and you should be OK provided there is no other negative item on you CR.
I'm not normally one to spend money like this, but I usually work pretty hard, and I've had the same car for 7 years...sooo I thought I would splurge a little. I ordered a 2012 Evo. If that loan doesn't work out, I'll likely look into a Genesis coupe (what can I say, I'm still young so why not get my toys now). Only reason why I am spending this kind of money is because it's my dream car, and I plan to keep it for a VERY long time.
Once I get the loan and start paying for the car, I'm going to start saving for a house.
@webhopper wrote:
@Chris123nTx
+100
I make about 120k before taxes and I don't even feel as though I can "afford" that much car.
A thought for the original poster, have you looked at same car gently used? A car loses 40% of it's value when it leaves the lot and a good car depreciates very slowly after that. I would be looking at a luxury car in the 1-2 yr old age bracket with leas than 20k miles
That 40% loss is no longer applicable on most vehicles, but especially on many of the nicer, more reliable cars.
These days it's around losing 25% in two years, and 33% in three. The 50% drop is now in the 5 year time with ~60k miles from the research I did on both Honda/Toyota and their upscale siblings assuming dealer pricing. Of course these cars tend to hold their value better than many, but the trends were similar, just a year or so shorter in some cases.
I personally didn't buy new, but that was only because the dealer had sold the car I was interested in and made me a sweetheart deal on a 2 year old 33k miles car. There is something to be said for buying new and controlling your own destiny when it comes to your car: virtually any car manufactured these days can get to 200k miles if well maintained. There was one Acura customer semi-recently, that I heard about directly from a person who does CS for Honda/Acura, that reached half a million miles. Though this was such an exceptional event (he'd also been servicing it at their dealerships the entire time, definition of customer loyalty) that they literally gave him a new car.
To the OP: someone will finance you, I wouldn't worry overly much about that.
@Revelate wrote:To the OP: someone will finance you, I wouldn't worry overly much about that.
I'm just afraid some lender is going to slap me with some high rate.
@Anonymous wrote:@Revelate wrote:To the OP: someone will finance you, I wouldn't worry overly much about that.
I'm just afraid some lender is going to slap me with some high rate.
Before you go to the dealer and let him check the offers available to you, you can do that as well. Capital One would be a good place to start.
@ScoreBooster wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:@Revelate wrote:To the OP: someone will finance you, I wouldn't worry overly much about that.
I'm just afraid some lender is going to slap me with some high rate.Before you go to the dealer and let him check the offers available to you, you can do that as well. Capital One would be a good place to start.
I thought Capital One was bad with all the horror stories I've read
@Anonymous wrote:I thought Capital One was bad with all the horror stories I've read
Their blank-check program is as easy as it gets. They are a high volume car-lender - and that's why you get more negative stories. But generally - and based on my own experience - they do a good job.