Leaf deals

[brimble]

ah good point guys. its 6000 miles. with 10p/mile therafter.

[brimble]

and £1800 deposit. that makes the zoe deal look good then...

[AndyWoodall]

brimble said:

hi all, if it were possible to buy a 30kw leaf Acenta for £200'ish/month, would that be ok? I don't really know what I should be paying. Oh yes, it's on a 3 year PCP deal. I've never had a new car before so don't want to get it wrong. ta muchly. sorry if it seems a little like a riddle but i'll explain later in the thread when I have more time to post.

I'm paying £200 for a 30kwh Tekna, 6k miles, token deposit (£500). Just do some sniffing, try and get a sense of which dealer is struggling for Leaf sales (not hard, they'll often tell you if you get the right bod, although this assumes you have a choice of dealers to shop around between) and hammer out the best deal for you.

[andrewrob]

Get yourself over to the speakev forum. I found my 3 year old tekna deal there from a dealer that had posted up. A few seem to post offers there, you have to ring them quick to get them though, I missed a few

[brimble]

thanks for the speakev tip off. theres loads of info there.

[brimble]

I've bought one of the cars on this thread here.https://speakev.com/threads/used-2013-leaf-from-just-99-a-month.19451/ hopefully it's not too good to be true

[dave_s13]

Can't go wrong for £99 really can you!

That dealer seems too be on the ball with the conundrum of what to do with millions of end if lease electric cars that nobody dare buy,.

[LincolnLovin]

Damn that is a good price, shame they are not down south.

[andrewrob]

LincolnLovin said:

Damn that is a good price, shame they are not down south.

To be fair though if its anything like my 3 year old car deal its covered by the nissan network so I just went and got it and all the servicing can be done at my local nissan garage.
It sounds like an identical deal to mine albeit with a first generation car not a second, the free home charger is from podpoint

[LincolnLovin]

Need to speak with the misses

[brimble]

I'm in northamptonshire and they are delivering it on Tuesday I'm rather excited actually, much more excited than I should be for getting an EV. two of my mates have ordered some now too. theirs come on weds and Thursday

[Trevor Larkum]

Most of the deals discussed here (Leaf and ZOE) are now gone. I've had a Renault ZOE for 3 years, love it, and now sell ZOEs and Leafs - these are current prices for comparison (these include 10k miles of electricity):

Leaf: http://fuelincluded.com/best-nissan-leaf-offers/
ZOE: http://fuelincluded.com/best-renault-zoe-offers/

We are also due another price rise soon, in the next month or so (possibly 1 September for the ZOE).

[Phunk]

Trevor Larkum said:

Most of the deals discussed here (Leaf and ZOE) are now gone. I've had a Renault ZOE for 3 years, love it, and now sell ZOEs and Leafs - these are current prices for comparison (these include 10k miles of electricity):

Leaf: http://fuelincluded.com/best-nissan-leaf-offers/
ZOE: http://fuelincluded.com/best-renault-zoe-offers/

We are also due another price rise soon, in the next month or so (possibly 1 September for the ZOE).

I on the other hand hate the Zoe.

Most issues are with charging:

- 30/40% of chargers won't work with the Zoe. My Mrs uses hers mainly to commute to work (hospital) which has chargers which work with every car apart from the Zoe, had this happen at several chargers. Tested with another Zoe and it has the same problem.
- Approx 50% of the rapid chargers are configured incorrectly, so instead of taking 30 mins to rapid charge, they take 2 hours. Making it useless for long journeys.
- It uses the type 2 standard, which most PHEV's do too and love to plug themselves in at Rapids all day and you can't unplug a type 2 cable as it locks in.
- It randomly likes to throw up BCI errors when charging, meaning it refuses to charge and needs flat bedded.

I had a Leaf previous to this and had none of these issues

[dave_s13]

Trevor Larkum said:

Most of the deals discussed here (Leaf and ZOE) are now gone. I've had a Renault ZOE for 3 years, love it, and now sell ZOEs and Leafs - these are current prices for comparison (these include 10k miles of electricity):

Leaf: http://fuelincluded.com/best-nissan-leaf-offers/
ZOE: http://fuelincluded.com/best-renault-zoe-offers/

We are also due another price rise soon, in the next month or so (possibly 1 September for the ZOE).

Looks expensive to me. Compared to my current PCP deal anyway.

And how is the fuel included. There's no details of how this works, that it could be arsed reading and understanding anyway.

[LordFlathead]

dave_s13 said:

Trevor Larkum said:

Most of the deals discussed here (Leaf and ZOE) are now gone. I've had a Renault ZOE for 3 years, love it, and now sell ZOEs and Leafs - these are current prices for comparison (these include 10k miles of electricity):

Leaf: http://fuelincluded.com/best-nissan-leaf-offers/
ZOE: http://fuelincluded.com/best-renault-zoe-offers/

We are also due another price rise soon, in the next month or so (possibly 1 September for the ZOE).

Looks expensive to me. Compared to my current PCP deal anyway.

And how is the fuel included. There's no details of how this works, that it could be arsed reading and understanding anyway.

Yes very expensive. My Zoe was £195 down and £145pm.

Also not had ANY issues with chargers so clearly the "2 car test" is not representative of what our owners say on the Renault Zoe owners club.

[Phunk]

LordFlathead said:

dave_s13 said:

Trevor Larkum said:

Most of the deals discussed here (Leaf and ZOE) are now gone. I've had a Renault ZOE for 3 years, love it, and now sell ZOEs and Leafs - these are current prices for comparison (these include 10k miles of electricity):

Leaf: http://fuelincluded.com/best-nissan-leaf-offers/
ZOE: http://fuelincluded.com/best-renault-zoe-offers/

We are also due another price rise soon, in the next month or so (possibly 1 September for the ZOE).

Looks expensive to me. Compared to my current PCP deal anyway.

And how is the fuel included. There's no details of how this works, that it could be arsed reading and understanding anyway.

Yes very expensive. My Zoe was £195 down and £145pm.

Also not had ANY issues with chargers so clearly the "2 car test" is not representative of what our owners say on the Renault Zoe owners club.

Perhaps it's just an issue with Scottish chargers? Everyone I know up here has massive issues, pops up frequently on the Zoe forum too.

Trying to get out of the car now, no point in having it if I can't charge the thing most of the time!

[LordFlathead]

Phunk said:

Perhaps it's just an issue with Scottish chargers? Everyone I know up here has massive issues, pops up frequently on the Zoe forum too.

Trying to get out of the car now, no point in having it if I can't charge the thing most of the time!

I hear you about not being able to charge.. that's the same as owning a gas guzzler with a petrol flap that does not open!

We had a *lot* off issues with Ecotricity chargers. Poorly rolled out updates, locking of flaps and BCI errors yet Polar chargers were all ok. Are your chargers Ecotricity?

Have you joined the Scottish Renault Zoe Club on Facebook? They may have some suggestions. Don't bother with SpeakEV they are very biased against Renault as the Directors have direct links to Nissan. All forums should help resolve issues across the board as no new technology is perfect.

Zoe and Leaf are entirely different species and both with their own merits. I picked Zoe for the commute and in that respect it saves me £150pm in diesel alone. If I wanted a more comfortable everyday EV I would be picking a Leaf or a Model 3

[Trevor Larkum]

dave_s13 said:

Looks expensive to me. Compared to my current PCP deal anyway.

And how is the fuel included. There's no details of how this works, that it could be arsed reading and understanding anyway.

Yes, the prices are on a steadily upward rise - I guess Renault are selling enough now that they don't need to promote it hard. The fuel included is pretty simple - the Chargemaster charge point that gets installed includes a meter (they all have this) which shows how much electricity gets used by the car. The cost of this is refunded back into the owner's bank account quarterly so that the fuelling is effectively free. It's currently limited to 10000 miles of 'fuel' but we're looking to increase this soon.

[DSLiverpool]

The Mercedes Leaf is on offer https://www.contracthireandleasing.com/car-leasing...

[Amateurish]

That seems very cheap indeed. I suppose the B class is a bit outclassed in terms of range these days?