Hiring/leasing a car for a month

[Riley26]

Is it possible to hire/lease a car for a month? If you do it via a daily rental firm it ends up really expensive. Anyone got any experience in this? Thanks

[SkodaIan]

There are various places offering an all inclusive "car subscription" which is effectively a short term lease with maintenance included - this is mostly for electric cars but some normal cars too.

It's not particularly cheap (about £500 for a month in a fairly basic car) but cheaper than the daily rate of a hire car.

[oceanview]

Yes.

I have just had a VW ID.3 for a month. Price included 750 miles (with 3 different provider cards for electric) .

I did this as i just wanted to try out an EV. What's not so good, is the company i went through charged £100 for delivery and another £100 on collection, so doesn't work out cheap just for a month!

Might be other "car subscription" set-ups, that don't have those fees , or perhaps not so high.

[Riley26]

Thanks what did you may for the month. Without the pick up charges?

[The spinner of plates]

Surely just buy something cheap and flog on next month.

[Bobupndown]

Man maths?
I'd end up losing a fortune.

[SteBrown91]

Riley26 said:

Is it possible to hire/lease a car for a month? If you do it via a daily rental firm it ends up really expensive. Anyone got any experience in this? Thanks

Sometimes if you ring up your local rental office and explain you want a car for a month what can you do, they can offer you a much better rate than doing it on their website

[Riley26]

Thanks yes I think the websites just compound the daily rates.

[normalbloke]

The spinner of plates said:

Surely just buy something cheap and flog on next month.

Surely that depends on how you value your time, and interacting with the great unwashed. Surely..

[NWTony]

Car rental places do cheaper deals for long term rentals, I seem to remember Europcar doing a basic hatch for around 500

[Mandat]

This thread from this morning might be what you are looking for.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[alangla]

Some of the big chains have different pages on their websites for long term hire, eg
Avis - https://www.avis.co.uk/drive-avis/car-hire-service...

Hertz - https://www.hertz.co.uk/p/hertz28

Might be worth giving those a go & also ringing your local independent rental place to see if they’d do you a deal on a long hire

[mmm-five]

Mandat said:

This thread from this morning might be what you are looking for.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Minimum term of 6 months though - and from about £300/month for an MG3.

https://www.cazoo.co.uk/car-details/b668a902-bbf9-...

[jamei303]

I've seen local places doing long-term rentals on 10+ year old cars before, presumably quite cheap.

[Riley26]

Thanks I have a 51 plate Suzuki swift. Is reliable but looks abit of a shed. Have a few events this summer where I go do with a car abit more presentable. Hence why thinking of renting one for a month. Thanks for all the responses.

[Riley26]

So I enquired somewhere was around £450 a month they wanted a £175 signing up charge though. Did others that rented for a month have to pay similar?