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Clear car finance with a loan??

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  • Gaz83
    Gaz83 Posts: 4,047 Forumite
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    Surely lenders would love people who consolidate debt? They're already open to borrowing money and if the lender gives them said money, they'll look postively on that. If the borrower doesn't spend the money on what they told the lender they would, that's fraud and they're stuffed.
    Because generally people who borrow money to consolidate debt have already shown that they are unable to manage the debt that they have, and thus it's only a matter of time for many of them before they default and don't pay it back.
    "Facism arrives as your friend. It will restore your honour, make you feel proud, protect your house, give you a job, clean up the neighbourhood, remind you of how great you once were, clear out the venal and the corrupt, remove anything you feel is unlike you... [it] doesn't walk in saying, "our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution."
  • McClane54
    McClane54 Posts: 283 Forumite
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    I once knew somone who sold a car on finance.

    people came around, liked the car and bought it, they even done one of those checks on the phone whilst counting the money out.??!! didn't come back with anything??!!

    once the money was in hand the person paid it into the bank the same day and then paid the remaining finance off. :) everyone was happy :T
  • ChemistDude
    ChemistDude Posts: 126 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Webuyanycar.com bough my Audi A4 Cabriolet back on 2011 which I had finance on at the time. They basically paid directly to the finance company Audi Finance. Didn't get the best price for the car but I was rid of it.

    (some would say getting that car was a very expensive mistake in my early 20's but you have to do it once in your life and you learn from it!)
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