The Arteon lease thread
Discussion
Mark V GTD said:
This is a lonely place - it can't just be me! Only yesterday I had another Arteon behind me - you don't see many but it was nice to be in the pair.
To answer my own question - I just booked my first service with the local VW dealer at 17,000 miles (the car is showing another 1000 or so miles to go actually but there is no advantage in waiting a few more weeks). I'm paying £254.00 inc VAT using Longlife oil so that will see me through to the end of the lease in ten months time. I am fairly happy with it - around £100 less than Audi were asking for the A4 first service last year.
The only question really is preservation of the tyres until the end of the lease. Do I swap them front to back and risk possibly needing all four replaced or just stay with the fronts and almost certainly require replacements before the hand back....hmmm.
I would say absolutely rotate your tyres. I've just done mine with 12k miles done. So the fronts with 5mm are now on the rear (rears were on 6-7mm), that way there will be no need to replace 2 tyres before going back after 24 mths in my care. But it now depends on what your tread depth is on the fronts vs rear, if you are below 4mm on the fronts, I would stick with what you have, replacing 2 tyres when necessary. To answer my own question - I just booked my first service with the local VW dealer at 17,000 miles (the car is showing another 1000 or so miles to go actually but there is no advantage in waiting a few more weeks). I'm paying £254.00 inc VAT using Longlife oil so that will see me through to the end of the lease in ten months time. I am fairly happy with it - around £100 less than Audi were asking for the A4 first service last year.
The only question really is preservation of the tyres until the end of the lease. Do I swap them front to back and risk possibly needing all four replaced or just stay with the fronts and almost certainly require replacements before the hand back....hmmm.
Edited by Reffro on Friday 23 April 15:38
Edited by Reffro on Friday 23 April 15:39
Update : now in to the last month of the lease (gets collected 3 March). I had the tires rotated at the service free of charge and they are all fine. Car now has over 26,000 miles on it which is 10k more than my allowance so there will be. £1,000 plus bill to settle for that.
Car has been pretty much faultless through this strange two year period - just a low volts warning on the dash after being left on the drive for two weeks. Economy has been impressive for a big car with a 190PS petrol engine - showing 50.5mpg average for the last few thousand miles. In the summer I was regularly getting 60 plus on an hours journey on A roads outside of peak time.
With total expenditure being £250 for the service and nothing more it’s been a great value for money car. The original deal being 24 months with 8,000 miles a year for a total outlay of £6,000 inc VAT. The mileage penalty will obviously increase that but having preserved the tyres I will just suck that one up as they say.
I did get a price to buy the car at £22,500 from BCA but the current purchase price from WBAC is a grand below that so I decided not to go down that route and make a clean break from the lease.
I will be a bit sad to see it go next month - it’s a fantastic looking and superbly comfortable car but now I am done with leasing for the moment as the deals are just not around any more and have decided to revert back to PCP/purchase. New VW Tiguan was ordered last August for delivery in March but that’s unfortunately delayed until (probably) this August so, as an interim, have bought a Mercedes SLC roadster to run around in until summer and will sell that once the Tig arrives ( hopefully the old rule about open top cars - buy in the winter and sell mid summer) still holds and will pay off and limit loss on the Merc - we shall see!
Car has been pretty much faultless through this strange two year period - just a low volts warning on the dash after being left on the drive for two weeks. Economy has been impressive for a big car with a 190PS petrol engine - showing 50.5mpg average for the last few thousand miles. In the summer I was regularly getting 60 plus on an hours journey on A roads outside of peak time.
With total expenditure being £250 for the service and nothing more it’s been a great value for money car. The original deal being 24 months with 8,000 miles a year for a total outlay of £6,000 inc VAT. The mileage penalty will obviously increase that but having preserved the tyres I will just suck that one up as they say.
I did get a price to buy the car at £22,500 from BCA but the current purchase price from WBAC is a grand below that so I decided not to go down that route and make a clean break from the lease.
I will be a bit sad to see it go next month - it’s a fantastic looking and superbly comfortable car but now I am done with leasing for the moment as the deals are just not around any more and have decided to revert back to PCP/purchase. New VW Tiguan was ordered last August for delivery in March but that’s unfortunately delayed until (probably) this August so, as an interim, have bought a Mercedes SLC roadster to run around in until summer and will sell that once the Tig arrives ( hopefully the old rule about open top cars - buy in the winter and sell mid summer) still holds and will pay off and limit loss on the Merc - we shall see!
dino_jr said:
Is it worth finding an Arteon with the Harmon-Kardon or Dynaudio system?
Or what's the basic Audio system like?
Standard system is just fine - apart from the fact that the car was advertised in the brochure as having a CD player - it arrived without one.Or what's the basic Audio system like?
The Arteon was collected by two BCA guys last week. They had a thorough look over her and took a load of iPad photos. No issues found (due to the fact that there were non) and was certified Condition A.
I was sad to see her go - been a beautiful and 100% reliable car for me - and extremely economical for a 2 litre petrol too (51mpg long term average). So now its just the small matter of the extra 11,000 miles I have done thats going to result in a £1,200 bill in the next few days :-(
Someone is going to get a fantastic example in this car - its literally as new apart from the odometer reading.
My lease was due a few days ago but the new car still hasn't arrived so i've extended for a month although BCA keep contacting me to arrange a date but I'm hopeful I'll hear about the new one in a few weeks. Car has been reliable and the only gripe I have is the bloody infotainment system which seems to have a mind of it's own!! Oh and the sodding small creature which headbutted my front bumper and broke it into three pieces! Oh yeah and the absolute gimp who keyed it a few weeks ago down the rear quarter and rear door!!!
knight said:
I’m UPgrading 
wow - that’s great - I have an Up! GTi on the way too :-)paddy1970 said:
Could you please share the reg of the car to help a potential ph buyer (not me btw)?
Sure - It’s VU20 MKK. A white SE 190 TSi model - It was mainly used for an off peak 56 mile commute twice a week, hence the 27,000 miles in 2 years. But I was the only person to ever drive it and there was only one occasion when there were passengers in it! It’s literally like new - I wanted to keep it but the money BCA wanted was a grand more than the WBAC price I checked so just didn’t seem like a sensible idea. Edited by Mark V GTD on Sunday 6th March 08:33
Edited by Mark V GTD on Sunday 6th March 08:36
Is yours actually built yet? I was very surprised to find that mine had (the dealer didn’t even give me a build date once it had confirmed - it took me to contact him asking for an update to be told that). I expected him got well me he was awaiting the confirmed build week!
Anyway since my lease car went last month I have the Merc SLC now so will be likely selling the Up!
Anyway since my lease car went last month I have the Merc SLC now so will be likely selling the Up!
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