from postggj,
ill try to explain my reasoning on this
a lot of these micky mouse car finance agreements fail well below what is expected of the consumer credit act.
first thing is when you buy an item, say a car on finance, you pay a deposit. that deposit gets deducted from the price of the car leaving a total ammount payable,
if that deposit is used to pay for insurances,
PPI
, etc. it is not being used for the purpose for which it was intended. that way the finance company can screw you at the max ammount of
interest
on the full value of the car, extending the time to pay it off.
the next trick they use is the aceptance fee.
say the acceptance fee is £100
they then add that to the total ammount of credit,
therefore you are paying interest on the acceptance fee which was not part of the original credit ammount
this has been delt with in the high court
WILSON V FIRST COUNTY TRUST
i have used these arguments myself in court
ime sure someone like surfacegent would like to comment on this