leasing a car for personal use anyone knowabout it?

surfsister

a friend is thinking of leasing a car to include maintenance costs etc

anyone know about this and can give any tips please! ta

DUTR

surfsister wrote: »

a friend is thinking of leasing a car to include maintenance costs etc

anyone know about this and can give any tips please! ta

Ask your friend, if the friend can comfortably afford and keep up the repayments, then any deal is good.

surfsister

true just wondered about the details!

tykesi

What details?

Might be better if you gave more information, are you being deliberately vague?

Maybe your friend could register and ask any specific questions they may have?

WellKnownSid

surfsister wrote: »

a friend is thinking of leasing a car to include maintenance costs etc

anyone know about this and can give any tips please! ta

Why does your friend want to include maintenance costs?
More details required...

surfsister

Disabled friend but not enough to get a mobility car and cannot cope with worry of maintenance etc. thought I'd find out a bit for her and looked at loadsa sites online but wondered if anyone had personally leased.

she needs it as cheap as poss, small car, low miles. just to go to shops, seaside etc.she also isn't that good online.

neilmcl

There's plenty of information regarding personal lease plans (or personal contract hire). Get you mate to google it.

WellKnownSid

surfsister wrote: »

cannot cope with worry of maintenance etc.

What maintenance are they planning to do?

surfsister wrote: »

she needs it as cheap as poss, small car, low miles. just to go to shops, seaside etc.she also isn't that good online.

How many miles?
How small is small?
Manual or auto?

agrinnall

About the only maintenance most of us do on a new car these days is putting air in the tyres and filling up the washer bottle, and I'm not sure if a lease would cover either of those.

dannyrst

to try and be helpful unlike others who just wish to have a go...

Maintenance on a lease deal is usually a main dealer service and any replacement tyres (due to wear, not puncture). Usually, you will find it is cheaper to find the price of a service and budget for it seperate, especially if the car is low power and not likely to go through a set of tyres during the lease term. From the sounds of it, your friend would be best off just servicing the car without the maintenance.

DUTR

dannyrst wrote: »

to try and be helpful unlike others who just wish to have a go...

Maintenance on a lease deal is usually a main dealer service and any replacement tyres (due to wear, not puncture). Usually, you will find it is cheaper to find the price of a service and budget for it seperate, especially if the car is low power and not likely to go through a set of tyres during the lease term. From the sounds of it, your friend would be best off just servicing the car without the maintenance.

I don't see how you arrive at that conclusion if you do not know the deals offered.