Getting The Best Bad Credit Car Loans
Dealing With Higher Interest Rates And Down Payments
It’s a trend that bad credit holders have to make significant down payments and get a bad credit car loan at higher interest rate. The down payments can be anything between 20 and 50 percent and interest rates may range from 5 percent to a whopping 26 per cent. The payments and rates of bad credit car loans depend on how bad your credit is and which state you live in.
Generally, the interest rate for bad credit car loans should range between 7 and 18 per cent. The amortization period, which is the time required to pay back the full loan if payments are done regularly, may vary from 2-4 years for bad credit holders and 5-7 years for good credit holders.
A bad credit car loan can be your chance to improve your credit score by paying off the loan on time. In certain cases, the lenders of bad credit car loans, in the end, finance the transaction with any one of the direct lenders. In this way, they lock an outside source of finance either by giving a guarantee for a portion of the bad credit car loan, or letting a portion of the loan to be left unfunded until you make a few payments of the loan.
Be Careful Of Scams And Exploitation
Here is a little secret of car dealers being exposed – some of them exploit their clients by deliberately increasing the price of the car and shooting up the interest rate of bad credit car loans.
There is this case of a lady being duped by a shrewd car dealer. He took a car for $4,000 and doubled the price to $8,000; took $2000 as down payment from the lady and financed the balance at 25 per cent. As a result, the under lying debt as well as the price of the car were not related realistically to the value of the car. Here, the lady was obliged to the loan contract at a staggeringly high interest rate. What happened finally? Well, the lady defaulted on the bad credit car loan and further tainted her credit score. Even if she were able to finish off the bad credit car loan contract, she would have shelled out a lot more dollars than if she had bought the car from a genuine car dealer at a genuine price.
How do avoid being cheated like the lady in the example? The best way is to do your homework before signing the deal. Research and compare the car prices and make an attempt to pay just the wholesale price, along with some $250 to $500 profit for the car dealer.
Make The Most Of Promotions
At times, the car manufacturers and dealers have to reach certain sales targets for new brands of cars. In this process, you can pick some impressive deals for bad credit car loans. Moreover, newly launched cars draw lower interest rates and an extended amortization period. In this case, if you want to get rid of your old car, the payment for buying a new one may be either the same or lesser than the payment for buying a used one.
Don’t be dejected if you fail in the first few attempts at financing or if you have to go for second or third choice of cars. Improving your bad credit requires a certain deal of patience. You have to keep on trying and get a bad credit car loan at such a rate that helps you push up your score on the credit chart.
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sparkles said on July 19, 2010
Done a bit of research they are owned by First Bank of Nigeria who are regulated by the FSA and therefore would be covered up to £50,000.
fretobemealways said on July 20, 2010
The dealership I worked at a number of years ago had a specialty financing department that dealt with buyers with very poor credit (<600). The cars were sold at a pretty hefty premium, and the interest rates were MUCH higher than regular customers, but it's what we had to do to pay for the extra risk in dealing with customers with poor credit, and it would be a great way for them to re-establish themselves if they were responsible. In fact, when we sold the cars, we would keep a spare set of keys, since the repo rates for those cars were so high.
But at least in our case, we required 2 recent paycheck stubs to prove income. If you don't have a job now, you would probably have trouble finding even specialty financing.
MrsBahige said on July 21, 2010
you could go to a car and credit lot and look at their cars…i think you have to pay them every 2 weeks though. also have you tried different banks…ot credit unions for preapproval on a loan for a car?? credit unions are usually better…i got a loan for my car through a credit union and with declining credit [which i am in the process of trying to sadly fix now]
and for what your doing with the credit cars DO NOT. i promise youthat doesnt help…it only hurts your credit and it doesnt build because it doesnt show you as making payments when you just pay it all off…get one credit card..buy something for like $20 and then make monthly payments on that..sounds ridiculous but thats truly how it works…i know this from banks and credit unions..they will both tell you thats the way to go.
also have you tried talking to different car dealerships because they usually give you the loans through themselves.
Jim E said on July 26, 2010
NO lender will consider anyone that is 620 or less FICO score. That means you wont get a loan. It doesn't matter what your debt to income ratio is or how much you put down. Being low 500's is why you were turned down. You're considered a too high risk.
There are a few buy here/pay here lots, like Drive Time, but avoid them at all cost. Their cars are junk, they're obscenely overpriced and they charge over 33.3% APR.Some charge as much as 99.9% APR !
Your only option at this time is to pay cash for a car. Yeah, it sucks. But it's the only way for you to get another car.
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Jeffrey said on August 5, 2010
Draw up a compelling business plan and request a meeting with a loan officer at a major bank.
You will really need to have a "compelling" plan to find a banker willing to give a 19 year old with mediocre credit $100,000.00 though.
If you don't succeed with the first meeting, keep going until you find one who agrees.
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natemail00 said on August 8, 2010
If you truly can not afford it, one option is bankruptcy. It will destroy you credit score, and you will not be able to get any loans (whatsoever) right now due to the credit crunch, and quite possibly you may not be extended any credit at all (utility bills, cellphone etc.) with our current economic situation (so make sure you have all those accounts established before you file).
Otherwise you could hire a mediator or attorney to try and negotiate with your credit card company. I think there are a few free services that will do this for you, but I'm not sure if its legitimate.
If you have bad credit right now a personal consolidation loan could very well be off the table and you may have to attempt legal remedy somehow via one of the routes above.