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1 Auto Loans. 2  As with credit cards, if you have bad credit, you'll have trouble qualifying for an auto loan, if you qualify at all. 3  The worse your credit, the higher your interest rates and, most likely, the higher the down payment required to secure the loan.
Information that can have a negative impact on your score includes hard inquiries, accounts that have gone to collection, bankruptcies, tax liens and judgments. To start with, inquiries remain on your credit report for 2 years (24 months). The good news is that they can only impact your credit scores for the first 12 months â and only if they are a hard inquiry (like when a lender pulls your report as part of your application for credit, for example).