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Getting the Right Credit Score for Car Loans

Posted by Sophie Egge on May 5, 2011 Leave a comment (0) Go to comments

Knowing the importance of your credit score in all the workings of the lending community, many applicants wish to know the different credit score ranges which they should maintain to get a decent rate of interest on car loans. For beginners, credit score is the rating maintained by credit bureaus which keep track of all the financial dealings, borrowings and payments of every individual and they rate the history of the payments depending whether they went well or bad. The right credit score to get approved for car loans a few years back was around and more than 610. Considering the highest one could go was 700, this score was seen as quite a high.

However, in those times, competition was less and a lot of people had high credit score. However, things have changed in the last few years considering that the recent economic slump affected the credit scores of thousands of individuals. Now, the credit score required for decent approval at good rate is seen to be around 490 to 510 for most credit unions and lending companies and banks maintain their requirement around 510 to 530 while some private banks come to the level of the credit unions to ensure that the finances are given. Several online lenders are seen to provide the car loans at credit score of even 420 to 450.