Car immobilisers - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 19 Sep 2022 08:24:53 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Car immobilisers - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Charity calls for inquiry into 'punitive, degrading and dangerous' car imobilisers used by lenders https://cathnews.co.nz/2022/09/19/christians-against-poverty-government-inquiry/ Mon, 19 Sep 2022 07:52:25 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=152036 Christians Against Poverty is calling for a government inquiry into the sale of low-value insurance to lower-income car buyers. It also wants the Government to ban the misuse of car immobilisers, which some finance companies require borrowers to pay to install, allowing them to immobilise vehicles if borrowers miss repayments. Christians Against Poverty (CAP) says Read more

Charity calls for inquiry into ‘punitive, degrading and dangerous' car imobilisers used by lenders... Read more]]> Christians Against Poverty is calling for a government inquiry into the sale of low-value insurance to lower-income car buyers.

It also wants the Government to ban the misuse of car immobilisers, which some finance companies require borrowers to pay to install, allowing them to immobilise vehicles if borrowers miss repayments.

Christians Against Poverty (CAP) says the use of immobilisers by lenders can put people in danger, citing the case of a woman stranded after her car was immobilised, at night and in winter. Read more

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