Car finance mis-selling
 

Thought I’d start a thread on this seeing as updated rules and expectations have been published now and claims are likely to start in earnest. I had no idea quite how far back this went (and up to how recently for that matter). We had a car on finance in 2008 and after hearing Martin Lewis on PM on Radio 4 last night I went to the Money Saving Expert website to use the free complaint tool they have there.

To be honest, the adverts from claims intermediaries had been putting me off even thinking about whether we might have a claim because it creates the assumption that the process is difficult. But MSE’s tool simply drafted me an email for me to copy and paste and send to the customer service email address of the dealer that sold me the car. That’s all you have to do - contact the dealer directly with as much information as you can remember. I had to trawl through old photos until I found one with the car reg on it as I don’t have any paperwork any more (and the car is long gone).

If you bought a car on finance between 2007 and 2024 you should look into this, and read the details at https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/re...m-car-finance/ where you can also find the free complaint-drafting tool.

I’m going to update here when I hear from the dealer for good or ill. Would be good to hear from other members who are affected. This goes back almost 20 years so chances are I’m not the only one!

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Here a link to the FCA website on this subject.

https://www.fca.org.uk/consumers/car-finance-complaints

If you sign up to a free account at Equifax (and download the App), this will tell you what loans you’ve had (if you aren’t sure).

https://www.equifax.co.uk/products/p...inance-checker

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Equifax app is well worth it. I've had 2 complaints in for over a year now but I checked it after MLMS the other night and it found a third one from, I think, 2007.

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Guidelines and timescales for the process (from the link above)

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I've had 2 PCPs (2017 & 2019)

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I havent bought a car on finance since the 1990's.
After that I had a company car until 2005, then leased cars until 2019.
At that point I bought and kept my last leased car (but not using any finance).

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I've not financed a car since my 20s so that is likely in the 90s too. I pay cash for my cars now and never buy new so tend to keep each several years.

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We got finance on our Audi in 2021 as there was an offer of 3 years free servicing and MOT's if we did. Paid it off after a month so still made on the deal but will have a look to see if we were miss-sold. I've never claimed any compensation before so not sure how it works but will do it myself and not pay some bunch of ambulance chasers (sorry if anyone reading is an ambulance chaser - maybe look at your life choices).

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Never taken put a loan, or car finance, or PPI. I must be due some sort of compensation for missing out on compensation

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Sadly, I heard back from Motorpoint and as far as they are concerned it was a cash sale - I know I had finance, but I think I must have arranged it privately prior to buying the car off them. So no compo for me. Bummer. :D

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Maybe a bank loan ? Thats how my daughter got her first car.

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Yeah, I mean it was 20 odd years ago but now they mention it, I vaguely recall shopping around online for a car purchase loan. I mean, I must have got one from somewhere, we definitely didn’t have that kind of cash in the bank. At the same time I was browsing Motorpoint’s website for the car we wanted. I don’t have any paperwork now, and I’m not sure my online banking statements go back far enough to see who repayments were going to. No matter though, the mis-selling scheme is specific to car dealers acting as finance brokers, which Motorpoint definitely weren’t in my case.