Best lease car deals available?

[furtive]

Blackpuddin said:

I notice leasers are increasingly offering 8k deals, presumably to allow them to offer a headline-grabbing money deal. But who in all honesty would want a car with such a low mileage window? 8000 miles a year is only 21 miles a day. One 400 mile round trip to see the old folks or whatever will use up nearly two-thirds of one month's 'allowance'.

My car does less than 8k miles per year. I get the train to work and SWMBO mostly walks to town/kids school so it only really gets used at weekends or the occasional short trip in the week

[DSLiverpool]

Tophatron said:

http://www.bristolstreet.co.uk/new-car-deals/nissa...

Seem to be advertising a Tekna (non-flex) for £999 + £192? What's your mileage on your current quote?

7500 - checking link now, ta

6p a mile over so £60 a thou - you have saved me £1700 - thanks

Edited by DSLiverpool on Thursday 20th November 15:31

[Tophatron]

DSLiverpool said:

7500 - checking link now, ta

6p a mile over so £60 a thou - you have saved me £1700 - thanks

Edited by DSLiverpool on Thursday 20th November 15:31

No problem. If you don't mind travelling I can give you the details of the dealer up in Scotland I bought mine from - deal was unbeatable.

[Vaud]

Blackpuddin said:

I notice leasers are increasingly offering 8k deals, presumably to allow them to offer a headline-grabbing money deal. But who in all honesty would want a car with such a low mileage window? 8000 miles a year is only 21 miles a day. One 400 mile round trip to see the old folks or whatever will use up nearly two-thirds of one month's 'allowance'.

I work from home and do only about 6k a year in main car - 2k of those are a run to France in the summer. I really want an 8k deal.

[DSLiverpool]

Tophatron said:

DSLiverpool said:

7500 - checking link now, ta

6p a mile over so £60 a thou - you have saved me £1700 - thanks

Edited by DSLiverpool on Thursday 20th November 15:31

No problem. If you don't mind travelling I can give you the details of the dealer up in Scotland I bought mine from - deal was unbeatable.

Aha - problem, the BSM deal doesn't allow hand back and walk away, they are just checking but I want 2 years and throw it back at them.

[Tophatron]

DSLiverpool said:

Aha - problem, the BSM deal doesn't allow hand back and walk away, they are just checking but I want 2 years and throw it back at them.

Odd - I thought that was the whole point with a PCP, you could hand it back and walk away..

[DSLiverpool]

Tophatron said:

DSLiverpool said:

Aha - problem, the BSM deal doesn't allow hand back and walk away, they are just checking but I want 2 years and throw it back at them.

Odd - I thought that was the whole point with a PCP, you could hand it back and walk away..

They are checking - I might have got a dozy person.

[Fast Bug]

PCP you can either pay the balance and keep the car, part exchange it (if it's worth more), or walk away from it. Either you have a dozy person, or they've changed PCP deals since I last did one. Which was a long time ago, but I don't think I was wrong in my FCA training a few months ago

[Blackpuddin]

AGK said:

Blackpuddin said:

I notice leasers are increasingly offering 8k deals, presumably to allow them to offer a headline-grabbing money deal. But who in all honesty would want a car with such a low mileage window? 8000 miles a year is only 21 miles a day. One 400 mile round trip to see the old folks or whatever will use up nearly two-thirds of one month's 'allowance'.

Some times it works out cheaper to pay the mileage excess than it is to up the miles to the required amount.

Interesting. So if I did get an 8k car at (for the sake of argument) £140 a month and then went over the allowance by 8k, taking the example of 6p per mile mentioned, that would be an extra £480 pa or £40 a month, taking the monthly charge up to £180. Presume the excess miles are VAT-able?
Just thinking there must be some kind of cap somewhere to stop folk like me buying into an 8k deal and then doing double the miles as that would substantially alter the value of the car at handback time, which I guess wouldn't go down too well.

[jimsco]

DSLiverpool said:

7500 - checking link now, ta

6p a mile over so £60 a thou - you have saved me £1700

Lookers are a little cheaper if you can downgrade to an Acenta (This does include battery despite the confusing reference, I checked with the dealer):

http://m.lookers.co.uk/nissan/offers/new-car-offer...

[soxboy]

Blackpuddin said:

I notice leasers are increasingly offering 8k deals, presumably to allow them to offer a headline-grabbing money deal. But who in all honesty would want a car with such a low mileage window? 8000 miles a year is only 21 miles a day. One 400 mile round trip to see the old folks or whatever will use up nearly two-thirds of one month's 'allowance'.

My wife's car does about that, 25 mile round trip commute 3 days a week plus a few miles in between to the shops. My car used for longer trips.

Plenty of people near me have very decent cars but commute by train so car gets used sparingly during the week and something decent for weekend duties.

[RYH64E]

soxboy said:

Blackpuddin said:

I notice leasers are increasingly offering 8k deals, presumably to allow them to offer a headline-grabbing money deal. But who in all honesty would want a car with such a low mileage window? 8000 miles a year is only 21 miles a day. One 400 mile round trip to see the old folks or whatever will use up nearly two-thirds of one month's 'allowance'.

My wife's car does about that, 25 mile round trip commute 3 days a week plus a few miles in between to the shops. My car used for longer trips.

Plenty of people near me have very decent cars but commute by train so car gets used sparingly during the week and something decent for weekend duties.

I've usually got 3 or 4 cars at any one time, a garage queen for sunny weekends, a motorway hack for piling up the miles/parking up at stations and airports, a works van for trip tips and the occasional commute, and something nice for when I want it, plus the wife's car. 8/10k miles is ample for the nice car even if I allocate 2000 miles for the annual family holiday in France.

[theboss]

Urban Sports said:

WTF is this leaseAIDS.com that keeps on popping up?

If only you could just lease AIDS and then hand it back after two years, like a Golf R.

Edited by theboss on Thursday 20th November 19:59

[soxboy]

Is there a way of searching for cars available by certain price?

Budget is c£250 plus Vat (business use) 3+47 15k miles pa.

Basically, the bigger the car the better!

So far shortlisted down to VW Passat, Tiguan, Cc and possibly Scirocco. For some reason these offer better value than a Golf. Others are Skoda Superb, Merc GLA and Honda CRV. Fancied Volvo XC60 but just out of budget.

Edited by soxboy on Thursday 20th November 21:23

[Blown2CV]

BrabusMog said:

Blown2CV said:

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Blown2CV said:

Birdster said:

To be fair the R deals came around April. A number were not truly personal deals and some orders were messed about. I suspect that these then became new PCH deals. As the price rised then dropped again.

No. I ordered mine mid March and they'd been around at least a month before that. How long do you need anyway? Even if it was April that's still 6 whole months to get off your arse. In reality it was more like 8 or 9 months.

I enquired but they couldn't hold one long enough for me, so I'd have had to pay two leases for 3 months which I didn't want to do. And now I can only get a GTD for around the same money.

Hold it long enough? There was no physical stock in the network and a 4-5 month waiting list almost immediately. There will have been nothing to hold, and in any case you're kind of proving the point that if you snooze you lose, unfortunately

Hold is the wrong word, I couldn't get a delivery slot that suited me when the prices were at rock bottom. Then when I was in a position to order, the prices weren't as attractive.

Are you this abrasive in real life? Genuine question.

you don't get a delivery slot until very close to delivery, which is many many weeks after you order the car, and at that point you're well committed. The fulfilling dealer won't even order the car until you're past the distance selling cooling off period. If I sound abrasive it's because it you are either making it up, or you're really saying "i ummed and ahhed and messed around and pestered the broker for 9 months and then missed it". I'm kind of imagining it going a bit like this:

you "I want that one"
broker "5 months waiting list i'm afraid"
you "i wanted it by the weekend"
broker "sorry, can't do it"

[6 months later]

you "I want that one"
broker "5 months waiting list i'm afraid AND you've missed the deal"
you "but you said 5 months 6 months ago"
broker "and you didn't order it then either"
you "you've missed my business... this is all too complicated, i'm going to buy a fiat uno and drive it past your window, that'll show you"

am i close? [genuine question]

[BrabusMog]

Wow. You've exposed me. I'm presuming you had a current lease car, were completely reliant on having a car and couldn't have a cross over of more than a month of leases.

[GreatGranny]

jimsco said:

Lookers are a little cheaper if you can downgrade to an Acenta (This does include battery despite the confusing reference, I checked with the dealer):

http://m.lookers.co.uk/nissan/offers/new-car-offer...

Slightly O/T

Got one of these booked for a 7 day test drive in December.
I have a 120 mile a day commute so will gave to charge at work but the prospect of cutting my commuting cost from £60 per week to maybe £10 is tempting.
However can't imagine a lease deal doing 20k+ miles a year would be cheap.
Maybe 2nd hand is the answer.

[1988alz]

Hi
Just wondering if there are any websites out there that offer used cars to lease.
Just thinking I might get more for my money.
Thanks everyone

[Blown2CV]

1988alz said:

Hi
Just wondering if there are any websites out there that offer used cars to lease.
Just thinking I might get more for my money.
Thanks everyone

not really no. There are some lease swaps services where you can sign yourself over to someone else's lease and take it on for the remainder of the term, but no such thing as used car leasing.

[crosseyedlion]

Blown2CV said:

1988alz said:

Hi
Just wondering if there are any websites out there that offer used cars to lease.
Just thinking I might get more for my money.
Thanks everyone

not really no. There are some lease swaps services where you can sign yourself over to someone else's lease and take it on for the remainder of the term, but no such thing as used car leasing.

Not in the UK anyway.

There is services like that at least in Canada. Its a great idea In my opinion, If it was allowed here. Would encourage more people to pull the trigger.