How well do you look after a leased car?

[Robsti]

I have just come back in after cleaning my pride and joy x2 .

Do people who lease/PCP cars treat them like like their own pride and joy or like a rental?

Someone on another thread said they leased an Audi A6 and would not be washing it for 3 years!

[CoolC]

I treat mine as well as I did any of my own personal cars.

[Dave Hedgehog]

i literally run them into the ground

the bodies normally tidy so i don't have to pay but mechanically there fked

red line starts from cold, no problem with a lease car

[Classic Grad 98]

There are so many stipulations and caveats in the agreements that you can't neglect any of the expensive issues... maintenance, tyres etc. Modern cars don't really mind not being cleaned.
I wouldn't consider it a big risk.

[Dave Hedgehog]

i missed the none washing bit in the OPs thread

yep my last car only ever got washed when it went in for its service, and the plates to keep it legal

[Dr G]

As if it was my own; mechanical sympathy costs me nothing and I wouldn't want to jeopardise reliability.

[Rawwr]

Dave Hedgehog said:

i literally run them into the ground

the bodies normally tidy so i don't have to pay but mechanically there fked

red line starts from cold, no problem with a lease car

Why would you do that? That's just bonkers.

[TheEnd]

I've never had one, but washing and polishing would probably go out of the window unless it was something nice.
After a while of being dirty, cars seem to form a protective level of grime.

I would however be very careful with avoiding stonechips and kerbing.
I guess that would be normal with any car, I wouldn't be trying to chip or kerb them on purpose, but I'd take extra care.

[Dave Hedgehog]

Rawwr said:

Why would you do that? That's just bonkers.

why not, you hand it back at the end of the term

and it hopefully the new buyer will be someone who bangs on about how hes got a bargain and missed all the deprecation and what mugs people are for buying new, and has to fork out for a new engine and gearbox

[MattMF1]

To me thats just poor attitude, some people cant afford a nice car new so they have to buy second hand.

[Classic Grad 98]

Why not just drive like you normally drive rather than driving badly in a cynical effort to land someone with a lemon?
Embittered by a previous lemon-buying experience?

Edited by Classic Grad 98 on Monday 9th January 19:48

[Rawwr]

Dave Hedgehog said:

why not, you hand it back at the end of the term

I think mostly because it's the actions of a complete .

YMMV.

[mike9009]

Dave Hedgehog said:

Rawwr said:

Why would you do that? That's just bonkers.

why not, you hand it back at the end of the term

and it hopefully the new buyer will be someone who bangs on about how hes got a bargain and missed all the deprecation and what mugs people are for buying new, and has to fork out for a new engine and gearbox

Wow.... what an attitude! People cant always afford to buy new and cant afford the depreciation.

Edit : to remove personal bit ... sorry!

Mike

Edited by mike9009 on Monday 9th January 20:05

[Pig benis]

My second car was a Citroen C2 VTS on a PCP deal and my god I treated that car carefully. Even though it wasn't mine, it was still my pride and joy. It was cleaned every week without fail and was always warmed up nicely. I even took the wheels off once a month, so that I could clean the arches and behind the wheel face.

Now I see the car driving around my local area and it seems they look after too. Sometimes I want to leave my business card on the windscreen, as I would buy that car back in a heartbeat. I loved it

[matthias73]

Dave Hedgehog said:

why not, you hand it back at the end of the term

and it hopefully the new buyer will be someone who bangs on about how hes got a bargain and missed all the deprecation and what mugs people are for buying new, and has to fork out for a new engine and gearbox

I would like to replace the clutch pedals with your testicles (still attached) and see what its like to be stamped on repeatedly by a confused man who thought he had a good bargain.

[MattMF1]

matthias73 said:

I would like to replace the clutch pedals with your testicles (still attached) and see what its like to be stamped on repeatedly by a confused man who thought he had a good bargain.

Dave you are a

[vescaegg]

mike9009 said:

Dave Hedgehog said:

Rawwr said:

Why would you do that? That's just bonkers.

why not, you hand it back at the end of the term

and it hopefully the new buyer will be someone who bangs on about how hes got a bargain and missed all the deprecation and what mugs people are for buying new, and has to fork out for a new engine and gearbox

Wow.... what an attitude! People cant always afford to buy new and cant afford the depreciation. What a selfish, self centred human being you are!

Mike

Im guessing a little sarcasm is involved here...

[matthias73]

regardless if sarcastic or not, thrashing a lease car in the knowledge that you aren't its last owner is pretty selfish.

If his orgignal post was sarcastic, so he doesn't thrash it, then fair enough, but it is very dificult to guage sarcasm on t'intetrentnent

[Dave Hedgehog]

mike9009 said:

Wow.... what an attitude! People cant always afford to buy new and cant afford the depreciation.

Edit : to remove personal bit ... sorry!

Mike

Edited by mike9009 on Monday 9th January 20:05

its all good

and I have no problem with people buying second hand, I am the second owner of my current car

its the self righteous pricks i cant stand

[m444ttb]

I treat lease cars and hire cars as if they were my own. I really can't understand people who don't.