Paying off Part of my Loan

Jul 31, 2006 8 Replies

Hi I hope someone can point me in the right direction.



I currently have a loan of £6000 left to pay off, I am doing so at £200 a month.



Now I have £3000 in savings which I would like to use to pay off some of the loan and reduce my payments to a more managable sum of £100 a month.



Now I have called Llyods who the loan is with and they said I would have to close the current loan and take out a new one with the new payment figure. This worries me slight that I will be paying them yet more interest is this right?



Can someone advise me the best way to go about this?



thanks alot



Chris



Sorry to add to this the current APR is 5.9% which they said I would be unlikely to get with refinancing

Cheers

Chris wrote:

What about set up charges, redemption charges etc?

At 13:01:15 on 31/07/2006, Chris delighted uk.finance by announcing:

Ignoring any charges, it's not worth doing this unless you get the same APR or lower; charges will further reduce the APR you need to get. Otherwise, you're better off leaving the £3k in savings; if you need the extra £100 then withdraw that much out of the savings account every month. If you don't need the extra £100 then stick the whole lot in an ISA (assuming you haven't exhausted this option this year).

thanks Alex thats exactly what a friend just said to me, seems the best option I don't want to give the bank anymore of my hard earned!

Cheers

Alex wrote:

You ask on here but you won't ask Lloyds?

well I have allready asked Lloyds and they have said I will need to refinance, I have come on here for advice from people not trying to sell me anything and I have the answer I needed.

thanks for the help

Chris Peter Saxt>

You ask what the charges will be and Lloyds are the ones to tell you that.

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