Keep appearing and they are driving me mad. I block them as they appear but they are never ending. Is there a way to get rid of them all at the same time? Had finance once but that was very many years ago.
If you find out Mrs Bonce, please let me know. I get plagued by them too! I have never had car finance in my life, mainly because I tend to buy older cars and buy them outright. I did borrow a small amount towards the car I have now, purely because of the timing of the purchase, but it was a personal loan.
If the adverts are coming in your email, and you have a laptop, try blocking the domain on the laptop. (Just make sure it’s not at yahoo or at gmail or other standard domain - I made that mistake once & wondered why people weren’t replying to my emails. They were.)
You can try blocking the sender on your phone (you can’t block the domain on your phone) but sometimes the sender has a random set of letters before at and they just change one letter so it’s then a different sender & it gets past your block.
Quote: Originally posted by Swifty560 on 22/2/2026
Search your App Store for DuckDuckGo browser & search engine. Put that on your phone & use that. No annoying ads & no trackers.
I use that browser on my other later laptop, it doesn't work on this one as it's too old.
However, the annoying car finance ads I get are emails that come in to my hotmail account. I have never had car finance! Despite that I seem to get at least one a day.
Quote: Originally posted by spiritburner on 23/2/2026
All this advice & we don't know if the adverts are appearing on websites, email, texts, Facebook, Instagram etc - just on a pho
The other one I continually get is "dieselgate" claims. "Did you own a diesel vehicle built between 2008 and XXX?" Well yes I do actually, my X Trail is a 2008 model but it's not eligible, and it was 11 years old when I bought it anyway. I don't think I'd have a claim for that!
Quote: Originally posted by Mrs. Bonce on 23/2/2026
We have a 2020 diesel but never heard of that. I had better not look them up or I suppose we will be inundated.
No, definitely don't look them up or you'll start getting them too! I'm surprised you aren't as the two often come together for me. It's all about some cars built in that period may have been fitted with "cheat devices" for the emissions test when they were built and claiming compensation if yours was one of them. I think VW were the company that first got caught out but others may have done the same, apparently.
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Topic: Car finance adverts
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