It might not have been turned in. If not, consider yourself fortunate.
The effect on your credit will depend on how the lender chooses to report it to the credit bureau. Sometimes a lender will be willing to report it 'paid as agreed' or 'settled' entry on the credit report rather than an actual repossession. If it is reported as an actual repossession or foreclosure it will be on your credit for seven years and negatively effect your rating.
negative information in your credit report
It hurts you credit tremondously. It will stay on your credit report for 7 years, and there is nothing you can do about it. Do not allow your car to be repossed. Voluntary repossession on not any better. Contact the lender and work something out.
Best way to do that is to negotiate the removal as part of the payoff with the lender. Otherwise, not likely because it is part of your credit history.
No you cannot remove a repossession off your credit report if your cosigner has a judgement on the repossession.
A repossession is a serious negative and will drop your scores.
i need to get a repossession off my credit report
If the repossession contains unverifiable, incorrect, incomplete, or misleading information, the account may be deleted from your credit report.
It won't help much unless you can sweet-talk the lender and convince him to remove the repossession from the credit report. Otherwise, the repossession stays on the record and the only 'improvement' to your credit rating would be the lack of an accompanying past due status.
No.
As a rule, YES. It is up to the lender to post a repo on your CR and most do it automatically.
The repossession stays on your credit report for 7 years.