So you’ve finally paid off your car loan! Hooray!
Now what?
The next thing to do is get your original car documents back, have the mortgage and encumbrance cancelled.
How?
1. Get Original Documents from the Bank
This may be the bank or any other financial institution that you’ve taken your loan from. Call ahead to determine what they’ll need you to bring. They will also require a notarial fee (usually P300) for notarizing the release.
What you will get:
- Original Certificate of Registration (CR) and Official Receipt (OR)
- 2 Copies of Release of Chattel Mortgage
- Original Registered Promissory Note with Chattel Mortgage
2. Go to Registry of Deeds to Have Mortgage Cancelled
- Go to the Registry of Deeds (RD) where the mortgage was registered. You can check this in the Promissory Note with Chattel Mortgage as a blue stamp like in the photo below. In this case, it’s at Pasay City. There are times though that this stamp is not clear. In such a case, try the RD in the city of the registered car owner (as indicated in the CR).
- Fill up a form with your details. Note that presenter need not be the same as the registered car owner.
- Submit the above form together with a copy of your valid ID, the 2 copies of Release of Chattel Mortgage, and the Original Registered Promissory Note with Chattel Mortgage
- They’ll process it and ask you to pay a fee at the cashier. The fee varies on the amount mortgaged. One time I paid P918, the second time I paid P1,128.
- Depending on the availability of the one who will sign, you may get your documents back that same day or they may ask you to come back. I was asked to come back the next day because the signatory was on leave that day.
- What You will Get Back:
- Official Receipt (OR) of what you paid for
- Assessment form and pay order
- 1 copy of the Release of Chattel Mortgage with the needed stamp and signature (they’ll keep the other)
- Promissory Note with Chattel Mortgage
3. Go to LTO for Cancellation of Encumbrance
- Up until now, your CR still has the word ENCUMBERED written on it.
Encumbered, as defined by the financial dictionary, a property owned by one party on which a second party reserves the right to make a valid claim
- Although it is an extra step, you’d want to do it for 2 reasons:
- Just so your papers are clean and no one can make a valid claim on your car
- So as not to scare away any potential buyers of your car should you wish to resell it
- To go about this, proceed to the branch of Land Transportation Office (LTO) of your CR. In the above case, it’s the Mandaluyong branch. It’s imperative that you proceed there and not any other branch as the mother records are there.
- What to Bring:
- Official Receipt (OR) from the RD
- Release of Chattel Mortgage with the needed stamp from RD
- Promissory Note with Chattel Mortgage given back by RD
- Fee of ~P280.00
- Original Certificate of Registration (CR) and Official Receipt (OR) of the car
- Copy of the latest OR of the car
- Car for stencilling
- Copy of valid ID of registered car owner
- Tell the inspecting officer that you are there for the cancellation of encumbrance. They will inspect your documents and stencil the car engine. You’ll then be asked to wait as they have to call the bank to verify. When everything checks out okay, you’ll be asked to pay the fee and they’ll print a new CR for you. All the documents regarding the cancelled mortgage will not be returned. The whole process took about 1 to 2 hours.
- Ta-da! Your vehicle is now officially yours! Congratulations! 🙂
I hope you found this post helpful! 🙂
It’s a long process pala, I thought pag nabayaran mo that’s it. This is a good information for those who have a car loan. 🙂
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This will be helpful nga for those who have just finished with their car loan. thanka for sharing! 🙂
This is a great bunch of information for those who just finished their car loan. We have to ensure all papers are registered for us not to have any worry in the future.
This is a very helpful post, will take note of this when the time comes and if anyone would need help about this topic. Thanks!
Funny thing is, we just started (this month) our car loan for 5 years hahaha. At least I know what to do after 5 years diba. This is really a helpful post. Bookmarked it!
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Thanks! 🙂
Thanks for the information. Not many knows that upon fully paying off your car loan you need to have the encumbrances cancelled. This is helpful to first time car owners through financing.
I cannot remember what i did after our car loan that was like 5 years ago. What i remember was i went to LTO where it was registered by BDO and it was a brief transaction. Congrats for an accomplishment! 🙂
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This article will be helpful for me, thank you for sharing
This is a very informative post, thank you. This will come handy once car loans are fully paid na. Akala ko once the car loan is paid, tapos na. hindi pa pala. hehe
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Woah, that’s quite a long process. I hope that when the time comes that I purchase my own car, this process will become shorter. Thanks for the great tip, though. I’ll keep this in mind.
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Congrats on the fully paid car! This is a very informative post. Same din kea to sa mortgage ng bahay?
Thanks! 🙂 I supppse for the registry of deeds process ganun din kasi they have section for mortgage and one for chattel, which is yung sa car.
Oh, bookmarked this for future reference.. we have 7 more years to go! Thanks for sharing! Very helpful indeed.
This is very informative and helpful especially to those who are planning to get cars. I’m far from that pa but will remember this when the time comes.
This is interesting! I had no idea about this! Thank you for the tips!
Medyo matagal pa yung amin. Hehehe! Pero bookmarking this. Malay mo naman matapos ng maaga. HAha!
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I will bookmark this sis. I still believe we’ll eventually have our own car in the future. 🙂 Thanks for your helpful article!
This is one helpful post. It may be a long process but very helpful for those who just got their car loan. At least they know what to do and expect. So kind of you to share such info.
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Thanks for sharing! I’ll share this to my brother as he’s almost there to get his new car (approved by bank recently).
Thanks for this, very useful reference post.
Ang galing. This is very helpful. I didn’t know there are so many steps to be done. Buti na lang I have no plans of getting a car hahaha
Yay thanks for this info, ang dami pala dapat gawin.
Ay babalikan ko ang post na ito after 3 years pero I’ll save the link na 🙂 Thank you!
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This is really helpful for those who availed of car loans. Thank you for sharing mommy 🙂
It’s a tediuos process pala. I didn’t know na you still need to consider a few things. Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Hi
Thanks for this! Very informative and easy to understand. At first I was unsure where branch to go because as there more than 2 cities indicated on the documents haha. Now i know how to do it on my own. My husband is working abroad and i am left with all the paper works needed for our car. 😛
Yey! I’m glad to have helped! Thanks for dropping by! 🙂
No need na ba for Highway Patrol Group clearance? Thanks
I didn’t get that na.
There are two types:
1. Like this one, its a retail transaction(bank etc)
Register of deeds(cancellation of mortgage/annotation) and then LTO (cancellation of encumbrance)
2. Finance lease transaction(in house financing etc)
Pnp hpg(clearance) and then LTO(transfer of ownership).
Thank you very very much,very impormative sa tulad naming bago sa ganitong kalakaran sa auto loan,great big help sa mga may balak kumuha ng auto loan,katulad ng iba…akala after you made your payment completed ay okey at pwede ng masabing iyong iyo na ang car matapos mong bayaran,marami pa palang proseso..thank you again.
Hello, just to ask. My CR shows only NCR in the Field office tapos blank lang yung Encumbered to? Pano po yun?
Hi Reiman, is it still encumbered? Dapat kasi may encumbered na word kung encumbered pa. Baka naman fully paid na.
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Di pa fully paid Mam, under in-house financing, RCBC bank. Pero yung OR/CR nga blank lang walang encumbered na word. Hmmm..
Hmm… di ko din sure. At least you don’t have to get another CR that has no encumbered word na when you’ve fully paid it. Hehe 🙂
Hi Cherly!
First of all, Thanks for this informative blog. It’s very helpful.
I wanted to remove the encumbered from CR.
Unfortunately, the original CR was lost, I only have the photocopy of it.
I have the original OR btw.
Please let me know what should I needed to do first.
Should I go to the LTO and request for the original CR?
or
Should I go to Registry of Deeds to cancel the chattel mortgage? (Will the ROD accepts a photocopy of CR? Since the next step is go to LTO and the LTO will issue a new CR with encumbered is removed)
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Hi Tesla,
Thanks! 🙂 You can proceed to the Registry of Deeds as they do not require the original OR/CR there. Once you’ve gotten your documents, you can proceed to the LTO and ask them about the lost original OR. 🙂 Hope that helps.
Wow! Thank you for the quick reply!
Sorry for the misspelled of your name. 🙂
No problem 🙂
Hi Cherly,
Thanks for giving us the heads-up on how to change our CRE.
Anyway, you mentioned in your article that …
– To go about this, proceed to the branch of Land Transportation Office (LTO) of your CR. In the above case, it’s the Mandaluyong branch. It’s imperative that you proceed there and not any other branch as the mother records are there.
My question is can i go to any LTO branch? Let say Marikina branch to change my CRE? Or do i need to follow the LTO branch which is written n my CR or OR? thanks
Hi Joe, you have to do it at the original LTO branch indicated. 🙂
Hi, Thank you very much for sharing the important piece of information, what should we do after fully paid a car loan. I’m about to take a car loan and I didn’t know that after taking a car loan, we have to get cancelled our mortgage and encumbrance.