Hello Steve and welcome to credit magic forum, If you pay your car off now it would be fine.You have already established a repayment history by paying off the other amount. The late payments certainly do not help your score but it also depends on how old they are. How many years have you been paying on this loan? If it has been quite a few then a couple lates will do much damage .
The lates were long enough ago they really should not be effecting your score much at all. A loan that was taken out and paid on for five years really establishes a long payment history. I believe positive lines of credit stay on your report for ten years. It also shoudl raise your FICO.
I believe you should be fine as long as it has been two years since the payments were late. As far as how long a paid off loan stays on your credit report is hard to say. I have had one that has been listed for 17 years. I believe as long as they are positive they must stay on there to show a good payment history.
As you say you have already behind for 3 due payments. Absolutely it has damaged your credit score. Now if you paying 5K on time it will recover some damage.
Hello Steve and welcome to credit magic forum, If you pay your car off now it would be fine.You have already established a repayment history by paying off the other amount. The late payments certainly do not help your score but it also depends on how old they are. How many years have you been paying on this loan? If it has been quite a few then a couple lates will do much damage .
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the lates where two years ago. the loan was 5 years, and how long will it show up that it was payed? and will it raise my fico?
thank you fireyone
The lates were long enough ago they really should not be effecting your score much at all. A loan that was taken out and paid on for five years really establishes a long payment history. I believe positive lines of credit stay on your report for ten years. It also shoudl raise your FICO.
I believe you should be fine as long as it has been two years since the payments were late. As far as how long a paid off loan stays on your credit report is hard to say. I have had one that has been listed for 17 years. I believe as long as they are positive they must stay on there to show a good payment history.
As you say you have already behind for 3 due payments. Absolutely it has damaged your credit score. Now if you paying 5K on time it will recover some damage.
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James Orr