Best Lease Car Deals Available? (Vol 3)

[furtive]

furtive said:

Looking to lease my first car, and am wondering if this looks as good a deal as it seems:

VOLKSWAGEN Golf Estate
2.0 Tsi 310 R 5dr Awd Dsg

Initial rental of £2,635.02 followed by 35 x £292.78
Based on an annual mileage of 8,000 miles

So I requested a quote which came back at £12 a month more that the price down on their website. Is that normal?

Edited by furtive on Tuesday 28th February 10:32

[wemorgan]

furtive said:

So I requested a quote which came back at £12 a month more that the price down on their website. Is that normal?

Edited by furtive on Tuesday 28th February 10:32

Yes, very typical. Though do check the mileage is the same. £12 sounds like 8k to 10k.

[Beefmeister]

wemorgan said:

Yes, very typical. Though do check the mileage is the same. £12 sounds like 8k to 10k.

Or metallic paint

[imdeman87]

Jonno02 said:

Man, SCL got shot down. And with good reason too. Not really the place to try and pull the wool over peoples eyes.

They certainly don't portray themselves well on this thread with those kind of deals. I noticed they posted the same offer on their own thread but thought it would be unprofessional to comment.

Their reply on here was a little insulting, especially for regular leasers. As already pointed out, get the 24 month contract, hand the car back after 18 months, you get more mileage AND it still works out cheaper?! Come on now it's not rocket science.

Note to others - best lease deals are direct with the dealers. If you have to go with a broker, then the most popular ones that tend to have the cheapest deals are CVL, NVS, Nationwide vehicle contracts, freedom contracts and vehicle savers (their hefty admin fees don't help though). I've heard of a certain bug who does good deals on mercs too. Apologies if I've missed any others out - I'm sure they'll be mentioned.

[Hitch]

The was some really good information on Gap Insurance a few weeks back i.e. sensible reasoned justification with some examples and points of contact.

I can't find it through search. Does anyone know when it was or who posted it and, MODERATOR, if we find it can we please have it as a sticky in the Car Buying section so that divs like me don't constantly ask for it...?

[simonwhite2000]

imdeman87 said:

Jonno02 said:

Man, SCL got shot down. And with good reason too. Not really the place to try and pull the wool over peoples eyes.

They certainly don't portray themselves well on this thread with those kind of deals. I noticed they posted the same offer on their own thread but thought it would be unprofessional to comment.

Their reply on here was a little insulting, especially for regular leasers. As already pointed out, get the 24 month contract, hand the car back after 18 months, you get more mileage AND it still works out cheaper?! Come on now it's not rocket science.

Note to others - best lease deals are direct with the dealers. If you have to go with a broker, then the most popular ones that tend to have the cheapest deals are CVL, NVS, Nationwide vehicle contracts, freedom contracts and vehicle savers (their hefty admin fees don't help though). I've heard of a certain bug who does good deals on mercs too. Apologies if I've missed any others out - I'm sure they'll be mentioned.

Totally agree - use broker prices to drive your conversation with dealers. Some however do not play ball - maybe we need a seperate thread or somewhere we document dealers who are more than happy to price match against broker lease prices making it easier for people to avoid admin fee's.

[Hitch]

You just need to look on WhatCar Leasing to find dealers who will play once you get a sniff of a good deal.

I understand from conversations over recent months that sometimes stock will go outside the dealer network (i.e. broker only) to keep the discounts at arms length and protect retail/standard lease prices but with the growth in dealer backed 'brokers' out there this must happen less and less.

[wemorgan]

Also, here's a list of main dealers on CH&L.

https://www.contracthireandleasing.com/car-leasing...

[saaby93]

Hitch said:

The was some really good information on Gap Insurance a few weeks back i.e. sensible reasoned justification with some examples and points of contact.

I can't find it through search. Does anyone know when it was or who posted it and, MODERATOR, if we find it can we please have it as a sticky in the Car Buying section so that divs like me don't constantly ask for it...?

Why not open a Gap insurance thread?

[m3sye]

Chukas said:

Got my deal on an R line Toureag from uchoose.
9 + 35
£3440.12 + £382.24.

It was the best deal I could find on 10,000miles per year.

Is there not a new model out soon?

[Fast Bug]

simonwhite2000 said:

Totally agree - use broker prices to drive your conversation with dealers. Some however do not play ball - maybe we need a seperate thread or somewhere we document dealers who are more than happy to price match against broker lease prices making it easier for people to avoid admin fee's.

It's not that some dealers don't want to play ball, some dealers can't supply to the funders that have some of the deals. My last place I couldn't quote on the Lex broker system even though we were a preferred supplier to them as we wouldn't pay the licence fee for their system.

Some dealers also won't supply to some of the leasing companies because of the discounts, again at my last place we had a 7% dealer margin + Lex/Arval/whoever discount on top. The big leasing companies took 8% dealer margin, which meant that you had no money to PDI, valet and deliver the car. If a dealership is chasing big numbers, then it makes sense due to the back end money available from the manufacturer if you hit target. If you're a small dealership, why would you do a deal that losses money?

Always ask for the fleet salesperson too, retail guys don't generally get involved in leasing.

Any way, thread derail over! Anyone seen a good Golf GTI deal?

[maccas99]

Fast Bug said:

It's not that some dealers don't want to play ball, some dealers can't supply to the funders that have some of the deals. My last place I couldn't quote on the Lex broker system even though we were a preferred supplier to them as we wouldn't pay the licence fee for their system.

Some dealers also won't supply to some of the leasing companies because of the discounts, again at my last place we had a 7% dealer margin + Lex/Arval/whoever discount on top. The big leasing companies took 8% dealer margin, which meant that you had no money to PDI, valet and deliver the car. If a dealership is chasing big numbers, then it makes sense due to the back end money available from the manufacturer if you hit target. If you're a small dealership, why would you do a deal that losses money?

Always ask for the fleet salesperson too, retail guys don't generally get involved in leasing.

Any way, thread derail over! Anyone seen a good Golf GTI deal?

There was a good one on vehiclesavers until they put the prices up recently - https://www.vehiclesavers.com/car-leasing/volkswag...

[northernmedia]

m3sye said:

Chukas said:

Got my deal on an R line Toureag from uchoose.
9 + 35
£3440.12 + £382.24.

It was the best deal I could find on 10,000miles per year.

Is there not a new model out soon?

yep hence the deal.

[Fast Bug]

maccas99 said:

There was a good one on vehiclesavers until they put the prices up recently - https://www.vehiclesavers.com/car-leasing/volkswag...

Thanks for that, the R isn't much more!

[Rscut]

maccas99 said:

There was a good one on vehiclesavers until they put the prices up recently - https://www.vehiclesavers.com/car-leasing/volkswag...

I think he was joking!

[beeej]

Oh, heh, checked my spreadsheet and Vehicle Savers have indeed put the Golf R Estate prices up in the last couple of days, deep sigh!

[matt-w2dpg]

Chukas said:

Got my deal on an R line Toureag from uchoose.
9 + 35
£3440.12 + £382.24.

It was the best deal I could find on 10,000miles per year.

Consider reducing to 8000miles and paying excess. It can work out cheaper, unless you're planning on going well over. Excess on VW at UChoose is 8p rising to 11.6p (plus vat) after you pass a certain threshold (can't recall exactly but it's quite high)

[jcuthell]

I think its a pricing error that might be honoured but have been offered a V90 r design with metallic for £297.05 on a 6 + 23. Won't publish name as only valid to me because of mis price. 8k miles per annum. Any thoughts?

[DrewPeacock]

jcuthell said:

I think its a pricing error that might be honoured but have been offered a V90 r design with metallic for £297.05 on a 6 + 23. Won't publish name as only valid to me because of mis price. 8k miles per annum. Any thoughts?

£297.05 plus VAT?

[jcuthell]

DrewPeacock said:

£297.05 plus VAT?

No includes vat! I have a written quote valid until tomorrow. Bursting blue looks amazing!