The Golf R lease thread

[gazza5]

The new 7.5 estate has never been under £30k on broadspeed - the chap above is looking at a estate.

I know the previous 7 estate - could be had for about 28k think it was off the top of my head - I nearly got one for that but decided to wait for a lease on a 7.5 - maybe VW have wanted to keep discounts not as high this time round - although at 30k its still £6k off list roughly.

[Troll2]

My Golf R Estate is being collected by BCA in 10 days, Got my inspection next Friday although I am not in the least worried as the car is mint and well looked after.

I have enjoyed the wagon for the last almost 2 years, its been a great versatile car, one minute doing the school run, the next carrying a load of tyres for my landrover, and of course a very capable B road blaster.

I am sending it back a month early (I paid 55% left of the final payment), it has done 20500 miles so far. Reason its going back a little early is my next car, an Audi S4 is ready and due to the emissions issue has to be registered and delivered by end of August. Not that I mind.

So if anyone is after a well looked after Lapiz Golf R estate keep an eye on Autotrader lol.

[Peanus]

My 7.5 R lease is due for delivery on Wednesday. It’s being driven here by the lease company’s subcontractor (don’t know who) from Birmingham which is about 120 miles.

Is it easy in the car’s computers to check if he’s been ragging it to death? My BMW gave mpg figures that were collected from up to 7 days prior. What sort of MPG should I expect from a brand new Golf R if it’s been driven normal driving? I have seen how subcontractors drive cars and I am worried I’ll get a complete idiot behind the wheel of mine, and if so I want to be able to report it at the first opportunity just in case VW start getting funny about warranty work etc and fingers get pointed at me.

[andrewparker]

Peanus said:

My 7.5 R lease is due for delivery on Wednesday. It’s being driven here by the lease company’s subcontractor (don’t know who) from Birmingham which is about 120 miles.

Is it easy in the car’s computers to check if he’s been ragging it to death? My BMW gave mpg figures that were collected from up to 7 days prior. What sort of MPG should I expect from a brand new Golf R if it’s been driven normal driving? I have seen how subcontractors drive cars and I am worried I’ll get a complete idiot behind the wheel of mine, and if so I want to be able to report it at the first opportunity just in case VW start getting funny about warranty work etc and fingers get pointed at me.

I think you’re worrying unnecessarily personally. The only thing to go off is MPG, and I doubt your delivery driver will want to drop it off showing a ridiculously low reading.

[TomScrut]

andrewparker said:

I think you’re worrying unnecessarily personally. The only thing to go off is MPG, and I doubt your delivery driver will want to drop it off showing a ridiculously low reading.

Unless they are retiring the day after I think they will be more interested in maintaining their job than ragging a Golf R.

[Welshbeef]

andrewparker said:

I think you’re worrying unnecessarily personally. The only thing to go off is MPG, and I doubt your delivery driver will want to drop it off showing a ridiculously low reading.

Delivery drivers will have driven countless cars over the country - I’d wager too the Golf R isn’t anything special at all to them plus it would be pretty daft to want to try to lose your employment ?

[Rutter]

I'd wager they are more concerned with MPG and getting it as frugal as possible as anything else will eat into their profits.

[Soprendo]

Or losing their licence

[tomkidd]

Hey folks

As there are very few deals as good as the Golf R Estate deal I jumped on nearly 2 years ago I've had some extension quotes.

They are quoting for 10k miles per annum £213.25 per month for both 6 and 12 month formal extensions.

Anyone got any thoughts on that offer? I was paying £266 for 15k but won't do 15k this next year

[adaM3]

tomkidd said:

Hey folks

As there are very few deals as good as the Golf R Estate deal I jumped on nearly 2 years ago I've had some extension quotes.

They are quoting for 10k miles per annum £213.25 per month for both 6 and 12 month formal extensions.

Anyone got any thoughts on that offer? I was paying £266 for 15k but won't do 15k this next year

Sounds pretty good to me!

I've just extended mine for a month at the same price as before. I intend to replace it with an approved used BMW which I can't get until October and my lease is up in September. Apparently you can extend it month by month at same price for up to 3 months. Good enough for me.

[marcosgt]

When mine was delivered an older chap (60s I would say as I'm in my 50s and he looked older than me) delivered it.

His first comment was "It's a bit of a beast, isn't it?", which worried me a little, but he'd recorded (as I recall) 40MPG delivering it, so he'd hardly caned it (I think I've only got that once and that was on a long slowish journey on motorways), and I doubt that many companies give their cars to yoofs with their baseball hats on sideways to thrash around!

Mostly, this business is the preserve of older drivers with clean licenses who are happy to keep them that way!

M

[cdrx]

marcosgt said:

Mostly, this business is the preserve of older drivers with clean licenses who are happy to keep them that way!

This. The reason is because they often get the train back from wherever they've dropped off at, and senior rail tickets are cheaper for the company.

[tomkidd]

Just had an offer through for me to buy our Lapiz Blue Golf R Estate with 29k on the clock and they want £20,950...

[gazza5]

cdrx said:

marcosgt said:

Mostly, this business is the preserve of older drivers with clean licenses who are happy to keep them that way!

This. The reason is because they often get the train back from wherever they've dropped off at, and senior rail tickets are cheaper for the company.

I reckon the chap who bought mine was in his late 40's - yep was getting the train after - I dropped him off at the station - seemed polite as I was going to be driving past it anyway.

Think he averaged about 37 mpg - which was through the M3 roadworks when they were 50 mph - plus normal morning traffic (I signed for the car about 10am).

Tbh - as others have said - its not a hire car so its not the fastest on the road anyway - but why throw your livelihood down the pan - he could of hit 80 or possibly 90 further down the m3 (car came from poole VW) - but not bothered at all - its a lease for starters!

[gazza5]

tomkidd said:

Just had an offer through for me to buy our Lapiz Blue Golf R Estate with 29k on the clock and they want £20,950...

Hmm not bad - they don't seem as good as they use to be though - but I guess that would be on the forecourt for £22 - 24k ish.

Think I may extend mine for the 3 months as the current deals are no where near as good and take it from there - although will probably need a service then and possibly 2 tyres.

[rat840771]

I’ve come into some cash with a redundancy pay out and a Golf R is on my list along with GTI or Skoda VRS.

Do I lease or do I buy a 3 year old R for around 20k?

[mcg_]

rat840771 said:

I’ve come into some cash with a redundancy pay out and a Golf R is on my list along with GTI or Skoda VRS.

Do I lease or do I buy a 3 year old R for around 20k?

As an ex 2014 gti pp owner and current 2018 r owner, for that price I would get a better specced gti pp

[gazza5]

rat840771 said:

I’ve come into some cash with a redundancy pay out and a Golf R is on my list along with GTI or Skoda VRS.

Do I lease or do I buy a 3 year old R for around 20k?

depends if you need the space of the octavia - if you don't gti or R.

R does have less boot space than GTI - due to the haldex unit.

Tbh the golf r is probably a bit too fast for everyday use - or to put it another way - 99% of the time you can't use it.

GTI i believe is also slightly better mpg, also cheaper to buy and especially as a 7.5 gti has most of the R spec anyway (led lights, active dash etc).

[Danm1les]

Peanus said:

My 7.5 R lease is due for delivery on Wednesday. It’s being driven here by the lease company’s subcontractor (don’t know who) from Birmingham which is about 120 miles.

Is it easy in the car’s computers to check if he’s been ragging it to death? My BMW gave mpg figures that were collected from up to 7 days prior. What sort of MPG should I expect from a brand new Golf R if it’s been driven normal driving? I have seen how subcontractors drive cars and I am worried I’ll get a complete idiot behind the wheel of mine, and if so I want to be able to report it at the first opportunity just in case VW start getting funny about warranty work etc and fingers get pointed at me.

Either way it doesn't matter? Its a lease car and its new, there is no running in period advised on the car i don't think and its all covered under warranty regardless. My R had a hard first 100 miles doing more launches than in the following 8000 miles it has done since.

I think people really do worry a little to much. Its a golf, not a Ferrari.

[gazza5]

https://flippingcars.co.uk/cars/

Change the search to golf r estates - quite a few coming up - a few are sold today - shows the prices that are coming up for them based on mileage etc.

For anyone who is coming near lease wonders how much there car maybe from VW etc. Of course this is trade price, and not what it would be on the forecourt!