Missed a payment? Good luck getting the car to start

[meshaliuknits]

Sept 25, 2014 11:52:53 GMT -5 CrazyLucky said:

Sept 25, 2014 9:44:30 GMT -5 iammalcolmx said:

Cars shut off when people are AT A STOPLIGHT?

They're calling it a starter-interrupter, so that seems like an exaggeration.  The one about the car being cut off while on the highway seems more like an outright lie.

I could see it at a stop light. Like if the car stalls and you need to restart or whatever and it blocks the starter. Then you're just stuck in the street.

If this thing got kicked on while you're in a 2hr parking or something then you'd also be liable for a tow and impound fee.

[eponinepontmercy]

I feel even more justified in not going forward in the interview process with the sub prime auto lender. I went to the interview, realized what they did, and knew I couldn't work there.

[emisi]

This is terrible. Plus, $389 a month for a ten year old car? Either she has a really short loan repayment period or the interest rate on the loan is insanely high. Or they gouged her for the car.

[Kattey]

My first car had this feature. I was 20, had poor credit due to unpaid hospital bills and a minimum wage job, so I was pretty much forced to use a "buy here, pay here" dinky ass dealer (which got shut down a few years later). I never missed a payment, but I didn't know my vehicle had this when I purchased it, no one told me. On top of that, I guess it wasn't properly installed, because it would drain my battery and I couldn't get my car to start if it had been sitting more than a couple hours. So I'd need a jump to go to work and a jump to come home. I lived in the boonies and the dealer was about an hour away. I had to drive there every week to pay. When I would complain that my car wasn't starting they would crank it (of course it would crank, I had just driven it for an hour), proclaim there was no problem and send me home. It was so frustrating that when I lost my job, I didn;t even try to keep the car, I didn't give two shits that it got repo'd.

So not only can they shut that shit down on a whim, if the system isn't right in the first place, you may not even be able to drive it anyway. Can you imagine having to have someone jump you off EVERY day to go to work to pay for a car that needs to be jumped because the dealer won't take care of their shit, and worry about being late so often you get fired and then having the car cut off because of non-payment. Way to penalize the poor/those whose credit can't get some working shit.

[Kattey]

Sept 25, 2014 21:07:29 GMT -5 emisi said:

This is terrible. Plus, $389 a month for a ten year old car? Either she has a really short loan repayment period or the interest rate on the loan is insanely high. Or they gouged her for the car.

In 2006 I payed $359/month for a 1998 Mercury Sable from a shady dealer. With 80,000 miles on it to start with.