A year ago I was 19 and signed a $41,000 truck for 72months with 15.35% apr paying $900 a month (loan required a limited warranty and GAP insurance alongside). I sold my soul 🫩. I was young and stupid made a big mistake. I am well aware you’re going to give me a lot of shit.

    On the bright side I have learned a lot about building credit and my credit score has shot up from 640 to 713 in the past year. I’ve been building credit accounts, using low utilization, and I haven’t missed a single payment.

    So now I thought it was finally time to look into refinancing my truck finally, alongside cancelling the warranty. I plan on keeping GAP, due to having minor negative equity from majority of the payments going into interest.

    For the truck payments alone without the add ons, I am paying $750. I have 60 months left of the loan. While doing the math though, I found disappointing results. I have been using 9% with the new loan as a place holder, so I thought the savings would be astronomical especially canceling the warranty. After doing the math though, $37,262 – 9% – 60 months – GAP, I would be paying $770-$775ish.

    Finding out that majority of the payments go into interest for the first few years was not very pleasant lol. Although I can now cancel the limited warranty, I technically would be paying more from the $750 a month. GAP doesn’t really add much to the payment.

    So the question is this- Do I refinance for the current 60 months, do I refinance for 72 months, do I do nothing, or am I just a kid looking at this entirely wrong?

    The major concern of mine is that the longest credit term I currently have is my truck. Losing my longest credit line is going to damage me a lot, so I only want to do this if necessary. I would love to open another credit line as well, but proceeding with this would mean I’d have to wait awhile.

    Truck Refinance Help
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    4 Comments

    1. Focusing on monthly payments is how many Americans stay poor.

      Refinance if the APR is lower.

      Maintain as high of a payment as you can (do not fixate on lower monthly payments).

      Write out a (complete) budget. Allocate as much income towards the debt as realistic.

      All financial planning starts with a budget.

      Your budget is your map. Formulating a plan without a budget is like trying to plan a road trip without a map.

      Start with your map.

      This will help to determine a financial plan.

      * https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/budgeting/

    2. Used-Radio7450 on

      Do you really need that truck? Can you sell it? Let’s say you sell it for $30000. Then you only owe 7K. Buy a 10 year old Toyota for 10K. Then you’ll end up with 17K overall car debt vs 37K now.

    3. SlowDownToGoDown on

      Since you are adept at math now, let’s look at it.

      [$41,000 financed | 72 months | 15.35% | $874/month](https://www.calculator.net/auto-loan-calculator.html?csaleprice=41%2C000&cmonthlypay=750&cloanterm=72&cinterestrate=15.35&cincentive=0&cdownpayment=0&ctradeinvalue=0&ctradeinowned=0&cstate=RI&csaletax=0&ctitlereg=0&printit=0&ctype=standard&x=Calculate#autoloanresult)

      You’ve got 5 years left, so just shy of $16,000 in interest to go on this loan. You’ve paid around $4,500 in principle.

      That leaves us with:

      [$36,500 financed | 60 months | 9% | $758/month](https://www.calculator.net/auto-loan-calculator.html?csaleprice=41%2C000&cmonthlypay=750&cloanterm=72&cinterestrate=15.35&cincentive=0&cdownpayment=0&ctradeinvalue=0&ctradeinowned=0&cstate=RI&csaletax=0&ctitlereg=0&printit=0&ctype=standard&x=Calculate#autoloanresult)

      During that 5 year term, you will pay just shy of $9,000 in interest.

      So, do you want to save $7,000 during the next 5 years?

      If so, refinance the loan.

      I bet you work pretty hard to earn $7,000, might as well put it in your pocket versus a bank.

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