by Autocar
10 April 2019
Leasing can be an affordable, practical route into having your own private car, but it's not always easy to tell the good deals from the duds.
The experts at our sister magazine What Car? work hard to find you the best pay-monthly schemes, taking into account mileage allowance, montly outlay, contract length and initial deposit. We'll be bringing you the best deals they find from a different segment each week.
This week, it's luxury SUVs:
1. Audi Q8 50 TDI S Line
£792 per month, £4752 deposit, 48 months, 10,000 miles per year
Audi’s range-topping SUV looks more arresting than the Q7 thanks to that coupé-like roofline, but the Q8’s exceptional ride quality and superb interior are far better reasons to like it.
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Warning
It's all very good promoting WhatCar leasing but buyer beware especially on cheap cars.
When you hand it back expect an end of lease bill, you'll be charged for a professional clean, paintwork marks, wheel scuffs and just about anything the company think (all at dealer rates) they can get away with.
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Beastie_Boy
And why wouldn’t you pay for any damage caused to a lease car?
We leased a Polo GTI that was returned to the lease company last year. The guy who collected it spent ages checking over it only to turn round and say it was the cleanest 2 year old car he’d ever seen.
Given that a car is probably the most valuable thing you’re likely to sink your money into, after a house, why wouldn’t you look after it?
Once the Polo went back we had to look for a second hand car. Any damage I found on a second hand car would mean I’d consider it to be worth less than a prestine one and I’d expect the asking price to be reduced to reflect this (or be repaired by the seller).
Surely if you return a scruffy lease car, you should make up the shortfall in the cars value.
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Ans
Basically when you trade in YOUR car or sell privately you don't take it to a main dealer and ask him to do £200 Valet inside and outside, respray all minor blemishes/marks including possible repair and repaint of all wheels regardless of how small the kerbing is. You don't do because you're get a big bill that you won't get back from the sale.
It's not just how many marks they'll find it's the fact you'll be charged top dollar, and, in the case of £150 a month leases it'll be disproportionate. Bear in mind with a private sale the buyer will be more forgiving than a dealer who can make a few more bucks.
This needed pointing out, which is why I did it.
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supermanuel
Warning?
@xxxx I have leased 7 cars over the last 15 years and have never been charged for anything other than excess mileage on one vehicle.
V12smig
Oh no you dont...
If you like cars then you look after your cars, so no you dont get charged. Been leasing cars for 20 years now and the guys collecting the cars are generally staggered at the condition in which the cars are being returned, same as the viechles I lease for my company, Van's as well, never paid a penny extra or been charged as such.
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smarttony
End of lease charges
Any end of lease charges would have to be assessed using BVRLA guidelines which reasonably fair.
jameshobiecat
What an insipid collection
V12smig
are you sure
The Q8 and the RR are both proper tools....
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Way to many examples of 8,000 mile contacts, the average mileage for a new Qashqai will be over this.
Makes leasing look tempting but just compare the Renault's £232 + a bigger deposit and longer term (10,000 miles) a month to the Qashqai's £166 (8,000 miles). Over 4 years that's an extra £3600!
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