car finance experts needed

car finance experts needed

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Pig Skill

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1,368 posts

208 months

Monday 17th January 2011
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I should be selling a car to a bloke I do not know but have spoken to. Buyer lives far away and will be coming to buy in one visit.

He is planning to arrange finance to buy the car (secured on the car I think) and has requested the VIN number,
Registration number and the date of registration as apparently the finance company will need this info.

OK, here’s my question: Will the buyer be able to raise finance against my car, take the money and run leaving a loan secured on my car with me in the firing line? I always buy cars outright and have no experience of finance.

Thoughts appreciated

Thanks in advance....

v8will

3,306 posts

201 months

Monday 17th January 2011
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My 1st thoughts would be to tell him to sort a bank loan or ps off. I would have thought that car specific finance was the reserve of dealers.