What you will need to know about financing a vehicle purchase
Know how much vehicle you can afford. Learning how to set up a monthly budget is the key to buying a new vehicle while ensuring you don’t overextend your finances, according to experts including Consumer Reports and Edmunds.com. Even using…
Thousands of dollars. That could be the difference between lower and higher credit scores when financing a vehicle, based on an interest-rate calculator at nerdwallet.com and data reported by Experian. Here’s what we mean: The average nonprime borrower, with a…
It’s useful to know how to use an auto finance calculator when you plan to buy a car. Fortunately auto finance calculators are not that difficult to figure out. For example, the Affordability Calculator at Santander Consumer USA (SC) requires…
Tax refunds are arriving. And that means many Americans may be looking for a new or used vehicle on which to spend the money they get back from Uncle Sam. Of course, due to the Coronavirus outbreak, the tax deadline…
Imagine the pain of slamming your hand in a car door. It hurts just to think about it, right? But that’s what one in five drivers say they would rather do than shop for auto insurance, according to a recent…
Shopping for the right vehicle isn’t always easy. Neither is knowing how to shop smarter and smooth out financing for your purchase. But you don’t have to go it alone this (or the next) time around because of the free…