Car allowance - shall I finance a car?

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Phil&Michelle wrote: »

Personally on 30k miles per year I would think the maintenance fees will be very high.

Based on what? If it is well maintained and serviced then other than normal serviceable items its not likely to need much doing at all. In fact it is likely to need far less doing than a car that does a fifth of that mileage a year.

My last Mondeo I bought at 3 years old with 90k on the clock. I ran that for over 75000 miles over the course of the next four years, finally selling it with 165k on and it only needed an alternator, a plastic pipe from the turbo to the intercooler and rear subframe bushes (common fault on the MK3 Mondeo). The last I knew of it it was on 175k still on the original clutch, turbo and injectors.