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Loan Anxiety

MarcMCFC1986 · 2021-10-17 19:24:45

Hello My car died on me on Thursday, and is a write off. I have found a really good second hand car, and agreed a deal with the seller, so went home and I applied for a £4,000 loan with Tesco Bank. I did a search on one of the comparison websites and it said 95% likelihood being approved by Tesco, so was expecting it to be…

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Borders2017 Posts: 44 Forumite

25 October 2021 at 2:59PM

My big question is if you cant flex from 150 to 220 for a lease car, how do you expect to pay for unexpected bills on the new car?

Try Leaseline website as they have lots of good deals for ex stock/cancelled orders etc they may be able to get something with min deposit

Best of luck!

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