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Automobile loan refinancing is a smart move if you want to lower your APR; by refinancing you can borrow money to pay your present car loan off and then pay off the new loan, and save money in the process. If your credit is good you won’t have a problem getting automobile loan refinancing; and if your credit is not so good, you still will be able to refinance if you go to the right lender, because there are lenders that specialize in bad credit loans.
Automobile loan refinancing is all about you; you wouldn’t refinance unless you stood to gain from it. If everything was perfect with your original car loan, you wouldn’t think of refinancing; however, most car buyers don’t know what they are getting into when they finance their car through a dealership. They will be locked into a very high APR, and by the time the first payment is do, they often wish they had not been in such a hurry to finance that way. It is better to secure your financing somewhere else, but since most people don’t, they will either continue to pay the existing loan off, or they will do the smart thing and refinance.
You cannot refinance if you are upside-down on your loan, meaning that you owe more than the car is worth. To avoid being turned down for automobile loan refinancing, be sure to refinance within the first two years of your present car loan. There is an exception to the two year rule though, if you are presently upside-down on your present loan, you can make extra payments, so that that the amount owed on the loan is less than the car is worth. Once your car is worth more than you owe you can then refinance, no matter how old your car is, as long as it isn’t older than a 1998 model car.
Automobile loan refinancing is not like home refinancing. With a home you can tap into the equity of your home and borrow up to 80 percent of the equity, but not so with a car. A car depreciates in value once it is driven off the car lot. You cannot refinance for more than $7,500.
Although bad credit isn’t too much of a problem with automobile loan refinancing, you would be only qualified for a subprime interest rate, which is much higher than prime. A bad credit history will follow you around for 7 years, and a bankruptcy can stay on your credit history for up to 10 years. To avoid a subprime interest rate, it is always helpful to clean up your credit before applying for an automobile refinance loan. Though your credit might have been marred when you took out your original loan, you can improve your credit rating by making your payments on your new automobile loan refinancing, on time every month, this means don’t be late or miss a payment even once. By improving your credit score, you increase your chances of getting a lower interest rate, and that’s a good thing.
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