A credit check is an assessment that will be undertaken initially by Ford Credit, and passed onto one of the three major credit rating bureaus, to assess whether or not a potential customer is deemed to be a good credit risk or not in terms of lending them the money to purchase a car or truck from Ford.
Ford operate a finance arm known as Ford credit, which offers dealership financing to potential customers who are interested in buying or leasing a vehicle from them. In order to know whether or not the customer is a good risk from a financial point of view for credit will undertake what is known as a credit check on individual.
This involves the individual fully out an application form, which they may do initially online or at a Ford dealership, which will detail a significant amount of personal and financial information about them.
What is a Credit Check
If they have a cosigner then the same information will be required but them, and if the purchase is being done on a commercial basis than information may will be sought about other partners or directors of the business.
Once the application has been processed it will be passed onto one of the major credit rating bureaus who will assess it alongside a range of other information that they have obtained through public records about the potential customer.
These records will then be collated into what is known as a credit report, which is a document which effectively evaluates your credit application. On the basis of this evaluation a credit score is generated.
A credit score is simply a number that is set on a scale between two other numbers to show its relevance in terms of being high or low, and thus giving information back to Ford credit as to the opinion of your creditworthiness.
This credit score is then used as a basis for determining whether or not to lend the customer money, and if so, what terms and conditions such as the size of the deposit, the interest rate etc.
