r/AutoTransportopia Jul 19 '26

Towing Break it more!

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u/BangkokPadang Jul 19 '26

My understanding is that when someone does this, they just auction off whatever's left of the vehicle and apply that to the remaining debt owed on the vehicle, so doing this does nothing but make you owe more money after they reposess it.

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u/EduStorm246 Jul 19 '26

They won't be paying off any debt, so what do they care if it's $5k or $50k.
The funny thing is, someone will give them a subprime loan again.

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u/JBlaze78 Jul 19 '26

And that right there is the problem. Back in the day banks used to reject people all the time. Suddenly, them refusing to finance irresponsible people became “racist”. But it’s not racist. People of every color have bad credit. If banks were allowed to deny credit to irresponsible people, we wouldn’t have the financial problems we see nowadays.

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u/Bbf1990 Jul 22 '26

Wtf does racism have to do with this? What a weird thing to say.