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Short term car lease (12 months)

Deleerious
Deleerious Posts: 271 Forumite
in Motoring
Hi all,

I'm about to start a new job in a few weeks and wanted to know if anyone knew of a lease company where I could lease a car for 12 months 0 deposit as opposed to being locked in for 36 months?

Just looking for a year old car A4 or something for 12 months...

Any thoughts ?
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Comments

  • motorguy
    motorguy Posts: 22,623 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Lease companies rarely do zero deposit.

    Its likely to be at least 3 payments up front.
  • bengalknights
    bengalknights Posts: 5,021 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts
    A car hire company will give you a very competive rate for a long term hire (thrifty/enterprise)

    contact them and they might just do you a year rent agreement for the price of a lease without the upfront cost other than safety deposit
  • forgotmyname
    forgotmyname Posts: 32,994 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    12 months is costly, The biggest depreciation in the 1st year. And as mentioned zero deposit not likely.

    Buy a cheap runabout, Or get the bus/train for a bit.
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