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Want to Refi Car Loan... Any options?

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Creditaddict
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Want to Refi Car Loan... Any options?

Got a Car loan 3 months ago with Santander for 17% for 60 months.

I currently have a 623 TU 610 EQ score.

 

Do I have a chance with anyone to get a rate below say 10%?

 

I do have bk's in past but no collections.

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Anonymous
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Re: Want to Refi Car Loan... Any options?

 I dont want to say no automatically but it's probably a hard sell

 

Four questions:

 

Do you know the book value of the car?

 

How much do you owe on the contract (total)?

 

Are you making more than the monthly payments?

 

What has significantly changed in your credit history (positively)  in the past three months?

 

This can create a tier change... All lenders are different but u might want to have this information available... noone can give you solid advice without it.

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Creditaddict
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Re: Want to Refi Car Loan... Any options?

 


@Anonymous wrote:

 I dont want to say no automatically but it's probably a hard sell

 

Four questions:

 

Do you know the book value of the car? $13785 KBB Retail

 

How much do you owe on the contract (total)? $12000

 

Are you making more than the monthly payments? No

 

What has significantly changed in your credit history (positively)  in the past three months? I got the charge off auto loan, updated to say included in BK.  I have 3 good car payment history with this new auto loan.  I obviously can't get my auto enhanced fico, but my TU when I bought this car was around 598 but my auto enhanced was like 563!... as of yesterday my TU is now 623... so if an auto loan raised me 25 points on regular fico, I would expect at least that if not more on the auto enhanced fico.... Should I just stay put for 6-12 months or is there a bank out there that I don't know about giving better rates.  I could now get approved through my CU however they base your interest rate on score, so I would only drop a small amount

 

This can create a tier change... All lenders are different but u might want to have this information available... noone can give you solid advice without it.


 

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Anonymous
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Re: Want to Refi Car Loan... Any options?

Are you sure you're not playing me.  You just financed the car and you.re already under book value without paying extra towards the principal... u must have gotten a good deal.

 

Otherwise...

 

You could be right CU would have been my first option but if they only going solely off the scores ... you only bank with one of them right??

 

I'm not 100% certain but i think car book values drop every calender year ... I would hope someone corrects me if i'm wrong.  This would give you some time to clean up as much as you can before years end.  So for instance the 12 month plan would put you in a point were you made payments dropping what you owe but also the car will depreciate by a given amount can't say how much but could be a few grand depending on how old the car is/make/model that good stuff.  Just to give you reference.  I'm definately not gonna predict amounts just wanna give you insight as to what may be going on here.

 

Unfortunately i don't know a particular bank I normally go thru my cu as well they never offer me something in the range of 17 well 13 with similair scores.  However someone else out there could give you the name of a bank that can give you a competitive rate that would be worth the refi.

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Anonymous
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Re: Want to Refi Car Loan... Any options?


@Creditaddict wrote:

Got a Car loan 3 months ago with Santander for 17% for 60 months.

I currently have a 623 TU 610 EQ score.

 

Do I have a chance with anyone to get a rate below say 10%?

 

I do have bk's in past but no collections.


I would do whatever is humanly possible to get out from under these people.   They are one of the worst.  And yes, I have personal experience with them.

 

Your scores are not anywhere as bad as mine and I got financed through a CU at 5%.

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dieselcafe
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Re: Want to Refi Car Loan... Any options?

I purchased a 2010 Toyota Yaris on 1/2/2010 and  I was able to get  an $18000  loan from Rockland Federal Credit Union at the rate of 12.99%.   I am happy with this rate because my credit score  was below 600 at the time I purchased the car. 

 

At this time of the economy, I am not sure if I can refinance for a better rate.

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