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Carlos wrote: Tue Sep 10, 2024 7:04 pm

My new M2 was £k's cheaper to lease than on PCP at 3+23 £582 so a total cost of £15k including ved for 2 years.

Good deal!

Carlos wrote: Tue Sep 10, 2024 7:04 pm There's a cracking Pistonheads thread that just posts lease deals.

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mik wrote: Tue Sep 10, 2024 9:24 pm

Carlos wrote: Tue Sep 10, 2024 7:04 pm There's a cracking Pistonheads thread that just posts lease deals.

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Apologies- https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/top ... 5391&p=705

Carlos wrote: Tue Sep 10, 2024 9:40 pm

mik wrote: Tue Sep 10, 2024 9:24 pm

Carlos wrote: Tue Sep 10, 2024 7:04 pm There's a cracking Pistonheads thread that just posts lease deals.

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Apologies- https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/top ... 5391&p=705

Carlos wrote: Tue Sep 10, 2024 9:40 pm

mik wrote: Tue Sep 10, 2024 9:24 pm

Carlos wrote: Tue Sep 10, 2024 7:04 pm There's a cracking Pistonheads thread that just posts lease deals.

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Apologies- https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/top ... 5391&p=705

Thanks Carlitos!

I've had a few leases, but now have gone back to buying second hand.

I do have an irrational hate for the feeling of giving back a lease car, where you know it's got a few little grazes and whatnot. I don't think I've ever even been charged come inspection, and if I was when factored in to the overall running cost comparison it would probably be small fry. As I said, irrational, but when using the car, chucking stuff in and out of the boot, kids in the back, it's just extra stress from it not being my property.

Think I'll stick to owning for the next couple of years, but I didn't have any bad experiences from leasing as such.

That, and if you want to mess with it a bit - exhausts, intakes and such - that's not really something you can do with a lease car. Not without risking them finding out and saying "your car now, give us lots of money within the next month"

I can see the appeal of a lease car, but for a few hundred quid a month in personal finance, you get a much wider choice of cars that are brooooadly likely to be faaaairly reliable.

He says, jinxing it...

If you want to change car every 2-3 years, want something modern, arguably more reliable and don’t want to tinker with them yourself; then leasing should be considered. If you’re planning on keeping it longer or want to tune it then purchasing it makes sense.

Modifying a lease car and then having to suddenly pay it off to own it
Thought it was preposterous then remembered that idiot on YouTube who did that with a M3 iirc!

Strictly speaking, you can't modify a car on PCP or HP either.

Mito Man wrote: Wed Sep 11, 2024 3:01 pm Modifying a lease car and then having to suddenly pay it off to own it
Thought it was preposterous then remembered that idiot on YouTube who did that with a M3 iirc!

Yeah that's the plant I was thinking of.

If a car is in stock how long do they normally take to turn up?

My sister's Octavia was ordered 20th august and is being delivered next week.

That suited her to arrange collection of her existing lease so could have been marginally quicker.

0-60 in 3.7 for just over £250 per month

Smart Brabus
£3000 initial
24 x £252
5000 miles
https://centralukvehicleleasing.co.uk/c ... h-5dr-auto

Or

Mental cheap white goods

Hyundai i10 Advance with pearlescent paint
3 months deposit - £485.82
Broker fee - £300
35 months of - £161.94
8,000 miles per year

https://www.nationwidevehiclecontracts. ... earl-paint

How long journeys do you want to do, and how bothered are you about performance? Not looked into costs but I bet a Dacia spring could be had for about the same as that Hyundai given how cheap they are, they just don’t go that far that quickly

The Brabus does actually look quite cool. I was unaware of those. Have you checked insurance prices ? That could be a limiting factor round your way.

Gavster wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2024 7:51 am 0-60 in 3.7 for just over £250 per month

Smart Brabus
£3000 initial
24 x £252
5000 miles
https://centralukvehicleleasing.co.uk/c ... h-5dr-auto

£376 a month really - though still fairly crazy

I'm still just kicking ideas around and won't be doing anything about this until end of the year at the earliest. Also, in reality I wouldn't go for electric simply because I live in a first flor flat with zero off-street parking and CBA to drive around looking for somewhere to charge every time I go out. It's hard enough finding a regular parking space on my own street.

Rich B wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2024 8:23 am

Gavster wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2024 7:51 am 0-60 in 3.7 for just over £250 per month

Smart Brabus
£3000 initial
24 x £252
5000 miles
https://centralukvehicleleasing.co.uk/c ... h-5dr-auto

£376 a month really - though still fairly crazy

Jeez, I kinda want that. Would be a great second (well ok, third) car / wife's car for scooting around town in (I've kinda wanted an EV for that). We've got so used to sharing the one car now though that we can't really justify it.

I'm certainly better off owing a 2007 boxster v a new golf r estate on lease.

The actual funny thing is noone asked me about the expensive golf and focus on my scraggy old porsche.

Also, I don't want a new car that tells me what to go all the time - that would be very annoying while paying through the nose for the priv.