by Autocar
20 March 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 crossovers:
1. Nissan Qashqai 1.3 DIG-T Visia
£166 per month, £997 deposit, 24 months, 8000 miles per year
The Qashqai almost single-handedly invented the crossover category. It says a lot about the car’s strengths that, even now, when every mainstream car maker has a rival for it, it is still among the best.
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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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carylouder007
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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
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8000
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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si73
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Wouldnt know what average mileage is nowerdays, most of these are probably used as school run family cars, we dont need the extra space and I dont like xovers so bought a mii on pcp, we only did 15k over its 3 yr lease and bought it at the end, so 8k on a qashqai would be plenty for me.
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average
It's around 12,000 pa
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