Buying Ex Fleet, ex company vehicles

PierremontQuaker03

I have bought twice with good arrows you could say two ex fleet cars (with one owner and higher than average mileage), so I am looking to do so again. Are there specific dealers that sell these cars-or do the fleet company's, when they get the car back, send them straight to auction. In the past I have driven far and wide to get the car I wanted but I don't want to travel to far this time, I am in the North East of England. 

Jenni_D

AFAIK the lease companies tend to farm them off to auctions like BCA, especially if the lease term has been 4 years or more. There may be exceptions of course (e.g. for really good end-of-lease examples) but auction seems to be the norm.

AdrianC

The fleet companies send them to the same auctions as the personal lease and PCP cars tend to go to - because they're the same finance houses, for the most part...

Grumpy_chap

Well over half of all new cars are fleet / company one way or another:
https://www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data/car-registrations/
Odds-on that is what you'll get, particularly if you are buying at the 3-4 y.o. ex-company car age.
I don't have data to back this up, but my gut-feel is that the brand new cars purchased privately are probably more likely to be held onto for longer by the first owner.

PierremontQuaker03

trouble with buying at an auction you get no warranty - even if its 30 days - I would prefer to buy from a car dealer even though most of them are cowboys