Gap between lease cars - what to do!

[pherlopolus]

I will have a month between lease cars, and don't want to extend the current one by a month due to servicing and tyres probably being required (and going to be 3000 miles over anyway).

It's going to be a few hundred pounds to hire something (£600 for something reasonable, I do 4 x 130 miles a week at the moment), so tempted to get a <£1000 car to last the 4-5 weeks then sell it on...

What do others do?

[pherlopolus]

Nickbrapp said:

Have you worked out how much it would cost you to extend the lease and do anything that may need doing? Can't imagine it's going to be more than the cost of a short term car, plus the costs to change on the insurance, plus anything that may go wrong in that time. Plus the tax you'll have to buy then most likely loose part of.

Have you also called the lease company to see if they will do a deal on the excess miles? People on here do it all the time and get charged less per mile than they would if they had just sent the car back over the miles.

For ease of life I would just extend the current one.

Edited by Nickbrapp on Monday 20th February 21:41

2 front tyres of stupid profile £300-400
1 service £199
Extra month £284

Excess miles neither here nor there, but as I am working away Mon to Fri getting time to service is going to be nightmare.

I like the idea of hiring the cheapest thing I can, but Mx 5 would be the answer if warmer. The risk of having an older car and potentially losing a day's money to fix can't be over looked either.

I will try easy car and see what they do in Telford...

Edited by pherlopolus on Monday 20th February 22:33

[pherlopolus]

Had a folk convertible that got used roof down when it was above 12c &#128512;

It is the all important reliability issue that concerns me most...

[pherlopolus]

Against my better judgement I have £600 of jaguars finest x-type on the drive in lovely 2.1 v6 Fwd format. Manual, with cassette and multichanger &#128514;

[pherlopolus]

It will be about £1100 all in. That's including 12 months insurance and breakdown cover, a service and a valet. And probably 6 weeks tax. It might be sorted until September and used as a trade in for my wife's new car when her leaf gets returned, or just sold on. My big unknown is the date the superb arrives, ETA currently 28/4 and I will start using jag next week so avoiding any more excess charges on Qashqai @ about 8.5p a mile.

On the basis that it should have some value left after I have used it I am probably cost neutral against a hire car based on 6 weeks, but cheaper based on 8 weeks. But it is more about the journey &#128512;