Discussion
ChrisTC said:
Hi All - Lucky (I think!) to get one from Stoneacre leasing for £60 a month. Being delivered on Friday, so will give a quick review and some photos.
That’s a great deal, what’s the length of lease/mileage on that? What colour did you go for?I’m currently trying to price up materials to fabricate a load cover which will enable me to keep the factory roll bars. To buy ready made will cost a lot more than I’ll be spending on the whole lease!
Richtea1970 said:
Ah bit of a change of plan, this isn’t actually with CVL
I was originally with CVL and signed up to £150 a month, nothing upfront, 18 month lease with 8000 miles per annum and was waiting for a delivery date. Then about 3 weeks ago I got a email from Premier Vehicle Leasing (whom I’d tried to get one from prior to Christmas). They said they had had someone drop out and could offer to me. It was again 18 month with nothing upfront but it was only £105 a month with 10,000 miles so bit of a no brainer really.
So I cancelled my CVL order (they didn’t mind as apparently they had people queuing up to get any cancellations) and went with PVL, and that’s who have provided the delivery date for next week.
But I had a long chat with the lady who called. She said it is painful getting the vehicles out of the port as they cannot deal with the numbers. You get allocated a registration number then it’s pot luck when it’s released from the port. She also said the size of the truck doesn’t help as she said that normally they’d have 6 or even 8 cars to a transporter (depending on vehicle size) they are only fitting 4 of the T90’s on each transporter. She said they’ve got 50 ordered through them and they’ve confirmed deliveries now for 20 of them so still 30 to go, so deliveries will be going well into March.
This transporter has 6 on, so I’m not sure it’s that big a deal. I was originally with CVL and signed up to £150 a month, nothing upfront, 18 month lease with 8000 miles per annum and was waiting for a delivery date. Then about 3 weeks ago I got a email from Premier Vehicle Leasing (whom I’d tried to get one from prior to Christmas). They said they had had someone drop out and could offer to me. It was again 18 month with nothing upfront but it was only £105 a month with 10,000 miles so bit of a no brainer really.
So I cancelled my CVL order (they didn’t mind as apparently they had people queuing up to get any cancellations) and went with PVL, and that’s who have provided the delivery date for next week.
But I had a long chat with the lady who called. She said it is painful getting the vehicles out of the port as they cannot deal with the numbers. You get allocated a registration number then it’s pot luck when it’s released from the port. She also said the size of the truck doesn’t help as she said that normally they’d have 6 or even 8 cars to a transporter (depending on vehicle size) they are only fitting 4 of the T90’s on each transporter. She said they’ve got 50 ordered through them and they’ve confirmed deliveries now for 20 of them so still 30 to go, so deliveries will be going well into March.
The various lease brokers do like coming up with stories to explain why it’s all so shambolic though, I’ll give them that.
Richtea1970 said:
That’s a great deal, what’s the length of lease/mileage on that? What colour did you go for?
I’m currently trying to price up materials to fabricate a load cover which will enable me to keep the factory roll bars. To buy ready made will cost a lot more than I’ll be spending on the whole lease!
It’s 12 months with 1 month deposit and 10k miles. Decided to go for black as seemed the most sensible. I’m currently trying to price up materials to fabricate a load cover which will enable me to keep the factory roll bars. To buy ready made will cost a lot more than I’ll be spending on the whole lease!
I’ve been looking at a tri-fold soft top cover from hardtopsuk.com which doesn’t break the bank.
ChrisTC said:
It’s 12 months with 1 month deposit and 10k miles. Decided to go for black as seemed the most sensible.
I’ve been looking at a tri-fold soft top cover from hardtopsuk.com which doesn’t break the bank.
Yeah the trifold is reasonable (about £300 isn’t it?), but you have to remove the sports bars to fit it.I’ve been looking at a tri-fold soft top cover from hardtopsuk.com which doesn’t break the bank.
Toaster Pilot said:
This transporter has 6 on, so I’m not sure it’s that big a deal.
The various lease brokers do like coming up with stories to explain why it’s all so shambolic though, I’ll give them that.
I wondered if someone realised that with 6 of the things on the back, some of the transporters would be over their GVW limit? If my workings are correct 6 of them is only a smidge under 20 tonnes! But I'm not HGV qualified so only guessing.The various lease brokers do like coming up with stories to explain why it’s all so shambolic though, I’ll give them that.
MrBig said:
TheDeuce said:
2.3 tonnes x 6.... 13.8 tonnes.
Apologies, the website I used doesn't seem to understand the difference between kerb weight and GVW. 2.3 tonnes is surprisingly light! Thats about the same as my derv Ford Ranger.CallMeLegend said:
Managed to miss out on these mega deals sadly, would have quite happily tooled around in a cheap, slightly substandard EV truck for a whiles
The insurance quotes I got were ridiculous, made the £60 a month in to almost £200. I guess maybe trying to get it through as a car would be cheaper but I wanted to use it as a vehicle for work.NSS89 said:
Richtea1970 said:
Just been given my delivery date of 22nd, so this time next week will be living the dream or the nightmare 
Did it arrive?Have you heard anything yet?
Saw 2 of these separately on the M1 yesterday - both 73 plates. Look quite smart but the white one I saw the handle for the load bed door was already faded to a beige colour, indicative that they have been sat around for some time and not exactly built to a high quality.
But if you are paying £100 a month should you care?
But if you are paying £100 a month should you care?
SteBrown91 said:
Saw 2 of these separately on the M1 yesterday - both 73 plates. Look quite smart but the white one I saw the handle for the load bed door was already faded to a beige colour, indicative that they have been sat around for some time and not exactly built to a high quality.
But if you are paying £100 a month should you care?
They’ve been sitting around for more than a year.But if you are paying £100 a month should you care?
No, you shouldn’t care. Some idiots bought them though.
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