Penfed Auto Loan 1.49% for New, Used, Refinance up to 60 months
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Just saw this posted on their site. 1.49% for New, used and Refinance up to 60 months if applied online. I have an autoloan and credit card with them and the have been great. There are multiple ways to qualify to become a member.
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Keep in Mind: This rate is not available for refinancing of an existing PenFed loan.
FYI : If you get their loan, the insurance requirement is 500 deductible for the car that is being financed. At least when I got their loan a year ago. So check it out.
9/8/12: PenFed sent me an email saying cars with more than 100k are only eligible for 24 month loans.
9/9/12: Follow-up phone call confirmed that >100k can be no longer than 24 months. Mileage over 125k is not eligible for a loan.
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Is Used Auto loan a good option as I am the owner of my car without any loan on it?
I need cash to pay off other credit, does this work?
Yes, it works.
I refinanced a car that I bought for $7000 cash year and half ago for $10,000.
When you fill the online application, there is an option to select 'I hold lien free title' on the car, that way the check gets mailed to you. You just to have to scan your title document and fax/email to them
I've got a loan with chase at 3.33% with about a year left...trying to decide if it's worth the trouble. Anybody done this before with them? Pretty painless or just a pain?
Without knowing the specifics of your current loan I can use a non-specific example:
Original loan: $25,000
Rate: 3.3%
Term 60 months
Payment: $452.56
12 months left to pay off.
Using this example you would have about $96 of interest left spread over the next 12 payments. If you refied the remaining $5,300 dollars of pricipal (give or take) at 1.49 for a 12 month term then your monthly payment would drop to $445.24 and you would pay $43 of interest spread over 12 payments.
Net savings: $88 ($7.32/mo x 12 difference of new lower monthly payment) + $53 (interest amount saved from new lower rate) = $141.
I went from 5 to 1.5 with my 4yr re-fi. Filled it out online last week Friday, and got the check to send to my other bank yesterday (8/9/12).
I'm even thinking about selling or trading this car (2006 M35x) for something bigger, if Pen Fed will float the loan. It's hard to pass up these rates.
It's not wrong because his loan was structured such that when he was repaying it the earlier payments were primarily the interest on the loan (the interest basically gets paid up front), so now he hardly owes any interest anymore on his original loan.
I disagree with you. 27 months is still a lot of interest remaining, even on a term as long as 84 months. Every calculation that I've done on a financial calculator shows savings, even at 3 months remaining on the term.
I disagree with you. 27 months is still a lot of interest remaining, even on a term as long as 84 months. Every calculation that I've done on a financial calculator shows savings, even at 3 months remaining on the term.
In the six months of our 5 year $26+k loan, we are paying a TOTAL of $11.81. So yes, there are savings, but nothing worth the effort and the credit ping. The total interest for the final 27 months is $210.68.
I have $4,669 payoff balance on my car loan @ 3.9% and $526.94 monthly payments, with payoff date 4/25/13. If I take out a 12 months loan from penfed @ 1.49% my monthly payments would be $392.26.. now if I add extra $134.68 to make my payments same.. I would pay $482.65 on my last payment, a whopping $44.29 saving from my current loan's last payment of $526.94. Am I missing something here?
I have $4,669 payoff balance on my car loan @ 3.9% and $526.94 monthly payments, with payoff date 4/25/13. If I take out a 12 months loan from penfed @ 1.49% my monthly payments would be $392.26.. now if I add extra $134.68 to make my payments same.. I would pay $482.65 on my last payment, a whopping $44.29 saving from my current loan's last payment of $526.94. Am I missing something here?
How long was your initial car loan? I'm guessing you may be at the back-end of a 3+ year auto loan and probably paid off most of the interest already....
How long was your initial car loan? I'm guessing you may be at the back-end of a 3+ year auto loan and probably paid off most of the interest already....
I am currently a PenFed customer has a car loan at 2.99% rate. I got this new 1.49% loan application approved instantly, but when I put in the information about refinance on the car, I got this message. Apparently, this is only valid to refinance an external car loan.
PenFed is not an eligible finance company for an external refinance application.
Please input an outside finance company other than PenFed.
PenFed does not currently allow internal refinances of existing PenFed auto loans.
Hi, I wish to refinance my existing penfed auto loan (current rate is 2.5%) . I wish to take the additional 5K added to loan at the rate of 2.5 (penfed will not give me 1.49% as existing member) to payoff other loans.
What is the process to do that ? Do I need to call or apply online ? Has anybody done this ?
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Thanks for the info! Are you going with a new car, or a used car?
Thanks and repped.
Thanks and repped.
I need cash to pay off other credit, does this work?
I refinanced a car that I bought for $7000 cash year and half ago for $10,000.
When you fill the online application, there is an option to select 'I hold lien free title' on the car, that way the check gets mailed to you. You just to have to scan your title document and fax/email to them
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Without knowing the specifics of your current loan I can use a non-specific example:
Original loan: $25,000
Rate: 3.3%
Term 60 months
Payment: $452.56
12 months left to pay off.
Using this example you would have about $96 of interest left spread over the next 12 payments. If you refied the remaining $5,300 dollars of pricipal (give or take) at 1.49 for a 12 month term then your monthly payment would drop to $445.24 and you would pay $43 of interest spread over 12 payments.
Net savings: $88 ($7.32/mo x 12 difference of new lower monthly payment) + $53 (interest amount saved from new lower rate) = $141.
I'm even thinking about selling or trading this car (2006 M35x) for something bigger, if Pen Fed will float the loan. It's hard to pass up these rates.
I disagree with you. 27 months is still a lot of interest remaining, even on a term as long as 84 months. Every calculation that I've done on a financial calculator shows savings, even at 3 months remaining on the term.
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PenFed is not an eligible finance company for an external refinance application.
Please input an outside finance company other than PenFed.
PenFed does not currently allow internal refinances of existing PenFed auto loans.
What is the process to do that ? Do I need to call or apply online ? Has anybody done this ?