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11 June 2025

The Dos and Don’ts of Driving at Night

Driving at night comes with its own unique set of challenges.  Not only is it much darker, reducing visability, but it can also cause headlight...

11 June 2025

How to Choose the Right Car for Your Lifestyle

Choosing the right car is difficult.  Do you go for your favourite colour and ideal aesthetic, or is it the stats that you make a...

15 May 2025

HP vs PCP: Which Car Financing Option Is Best for You?

So, you’ve found the car you want to buy, but now you need to decide how you want to pay for it.  Do you pay...

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17 January 2020

Noddle: How to use it for your car purchase

The financial times they are a changing. And we're not talking about the newspaper here. No, what we're referring to is the market for financing and, specifically, rating agencies. In November of last year, rising...

15 January 2020

Are short term loans with no credit check advisable?

Short term loans with no credit check sound tempting. Who wouldn't want money without the hassle (and, sometimes, humiliation) of going through a lengthy application process? Reality isn't quite as rosy, unfortunately. In this article,...

14 January 2020

Car Wash: Recommendations

There was a time when a car wash used to be a weekly ritual: Crank up the radio, enjoy a cool drink and spend the morning getting your car into top shape again. Alas, no...

13 January 2020

What is PPI and why is it such a big deal?

The mis-selling of PPI is, without any doubt, one of the two biggest recent scandals of the car industry – Dieselgate being the other one. Although made public years ago, PPI related cases are still...

12 January 2020

VED: How high is my Vehicle Excise Duty?

Owning and driving a car is expensive enough as it is. So when, in 2017, the government announced incisive changes to the VED, this obviously led to a lot of concern. Not all of the...

11 January 2020

What is the difference between a soft and hard credit check?

And "Which do you choose, a hard or soft option?", the Pet Shop Boys once famously asked. For years, fans and critics have tried to decipher the meaning of that question. Perhaps, we might suggest,...

10 January 2020

How to improve your credit score

How to improve your credit score – entire books have been written about this. If you, too are affected by a bad credit score, it might be a good idea to pick one of them...

9 January 2020

DVLA Car Check: How to Prevent Mistakes

Four letters really can make a lot of difference. In August of this year, the DVLA (Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency) announced that its services would be unavailable for one weekend. It didn't seem all...

8 January 2020

Used Dacia Duster: How to Pick the Right One!

If you're looking for a used Dacia Duster, you've come to the right place. At Concept Car Credit, we've loved this quirky little SUV right from the first time it hit UK roads in 2012....