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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 1:22 pm
by michelleb
Hi all,

Hope this is in the right section.

After 4 years of HP payments on our car, they are about to end (March I think) and a balloon payment of approx £4,000 will be due.

VW finance have offered to re-finance the balloon but at an APR of 17%!!

My mother in law has offered to loan us the money needed to pay off the balloon so the car is ours straight away, at an interest rate of 4% annually.
Would we be allowed to do this, as long as the monthly payments we make to her are not higher than what we have been paying up to now??
Thanks

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 1:32 pm
by Michael Peoples
This seems perfectly fine but you will need the permission from your IP. There is nothing to stop you obtaining credit with permission and the fact that the proposed loan is cheaper than you can obtain from VW I see no real issues.

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 1:56 pm
by michelleb
Thanks Micheal, I have sent an email to my IP to ask
permission. Fingers crossed!

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 3:45 pm
by Adam Davies
Hi
Good to at least see VW offering finance even though the person is in an IVA, even at a fairly high rate
Regards

Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 5:08 pm
by michelleb
Yes Andy, we were quite pleasantly surprised. They didn't even ask to see any paperwork relating to the IVA.