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UK Purchase via PCP Finance

Have you / will you purchase your Tesla with finance?

  • I have / will finance a large portion of the car

    Votes: 4 100.0%
  • I have / will finance a small portion of the car

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I have / will purchase outright in cash

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    4
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Hi all,

I have put an order in for a Model S and applied for PCP finance.

The question I have is, can I pay the finance "downpayment" via credit card? I have some lovely 0% CCs and doing it this way would reduce the interest rate being paid for the credit (although speed up the repayments as I will have to pay more per month on the CC to keep it 0% by the end of the 0% term - which is not a problem).

I had also considered taking out a personal loan that had no early repayment penalty and then doing a transfer to a 0% money transfer card with a 1.69% transfer fee... effectively costing 1.69% instead of the 5.9% that Tesla PCP costs.

I'm trying to maintain cash flow capability instead of tieing up £15.5k in cash straight into a car. I am purchasing the car through my business.

Does anyone else have experience doing anything like this? I realise that for most people, worrying about £15k when they are buying an £80k car is probably not on their problems list :)