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0% Financing, and loans
« on: December 21, 2006, 07:51:43 pm »
I probably already know the answer to this but has anyone ever heard/tried getting a new vehicle with 0% financing and having the "negative equity/upside-down" loan conglomerated into the 0% financing? I'm not really happy with my Caliber and it would be a godsend if I could take what I owe and lump it in with a different new vehicle.

Also, would it be the best avenue to attempt something like this with say CarHelpCanada (specifically them because I am a member)?

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Re: 0% Financing, and loans
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2006, 08:08:43 pm »
Based on what I've seen Ford Credit do, anything much more than $5000 of negative equity will require stellar credit from the customer and a very skillful finance manager at the dealership. The most I've ever witnessed them bury at 0% was $13,000 on a $55,000+ truck.

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Re: 0% Financing, and loans
« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2006, 08:16:51 pm »
It seems to me that you have a history of doing basically the same thing and were very unhappy with the results LAST TIME. Now you want to roll a super-negative equity loan into a new car deal at 0% interest?? I think the dealer would have to be world-class desperate to even consider it.

http://www.canadiandriver.com/forum/index.php/topic,46616.20.html

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Re: 0% Financing, and loans
« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2006, 08:31:29 pm »
I'm not really happy with my Caliber...

Can you wait until you are no longer upside down on the loan? Then you can start off fresh...

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Re: 0% Financing, and loans
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2006, 08:46:32 am »
Thanks for the info Cord, I was curious if anyone had ever heard of going through this process. I would roughly have about 10k to roll into a new deal so now I know that it's highly unlikely for it to happen but not impossible.

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It seems to me that you have a history of doing basically the same thing and were very unhappy with the results LAST TIME. Now you want to roll a super-negative equity loan into a new car deal at 0% interest?? I think the dealer would have to be world-class desperate to even consider it.

I'm not sure where you are getting "i have a history of doing basically the same thing" when my purchase of the Caliber was the ONLY time I've ever had a trade in on a vehicle. To have a history of doing something would be doing the same mistake more than once no? I have made a crummy deal and have asked for help here and with your "LAST TIME" comment I can only assume that as an attack on someone that really doesn't know a lot about this sort of thing and I don't see how your comments could be thought to be constructive. A simple "I don't think you would get it" would have sufficed.

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Can you wait until you are no longer upside down on the loan? Then you can start off fresh...

I'd love to, but the 0% financing has me crunching numbers in attempt to save money on a poor deal. If I did manage to finagle a deal like this I would save close to $5000 in interest - hence you can see my interest in trying to do something like this.

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Re: 0% Financing, and loans
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2006, 08:35:08 pm »
[quote author=Fyrstorm link=topic=50081.msg340104#msg340104 If I did manage to finagle a deal like this I would save close to $5000 in interest - hence you can see my interest in trying to do something like this.
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Oh, I see....