Personal leasing companies

My last three leases have been though Leasing Options in Manchester. A pretty smooth experience every time.
 
A chap I used to work with had used Select Car Leasing a couple of times, he didn’t have a bad word to say about them, I haven’t spoke to him in a few years though as we don’t work together anymore
 
I don't think there's a lot in it really, pretty much all of them are a broker and the actual lease will be with someone like Arval.

Just find the lowest price on leaseloco.com

I've personally used Gateway2Lease and Fleetprices before and both were fine. The actual lease in both cases was Arval.
 
Sirrel Squirrel said:
I don't think there's a lot in it really, pretty much all of them are a broker and the actual lease will be with someone like Arval.

Just find the lowest price on leaseloco.com

I've personally used Gateway2Lease and Fleetprices before and both were fine. The actual lease in both cases was Arval.
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Actually @ArchAnGeL disregard my 1st reply. @Sirrel Squirrel has reminded me of a **** up Leasing Options made. I'd moved house a couple of times in 2020/2021, kept Leasing Options updated of my moves, and when it came to my finance application, I failed the credit check, as Leasing Options had submitted an old/incorrect address to the creditors.

I'm wondering if there's a third link in the chain. I was able to secure finance with another company though. My 1st lease was via Arval (never missed a payment and my credit score was/is top notch).It was Arval who declined my second lease due to Leasing Options' **** up, and I got the vehicle through RRG Finance in the end. But my statements/advisory letters for this vehicle come from Arval.

Leasing used to be an affordable way to have a nice new car. Not anymore. The cost of leasing these days is on par with buying a car. Which is what I've done as the lease on one of my vehicles comes to an end.
 
I've used:

Zen Auto - were very good.
Select Leasing - were very good.
Leasing Options - got my car at a decent price but i was constantly having to chase for updates, their customer service wasn't the best.
 
I’ve used Zen Auto, Gateway2Lease, Blue Chilli and a few others as brokers. They’re all the same, you’re their best friend until you get the car then you deal direct with the actual lease company.

My advice if you want to personal lease is decide a budget, decide the type of car you want then find whoever is the cheapest on sites like leasing.com and leaseloco. Don’t go for specific cars with specific options as that will always cost you and at that point there’s probably better ways to sort things via dealers with alternatives to leasing.

As others have said, personal leasing has gotten pretty expensive over the last few years, my last lease was (1+35) £320 a month for a Seat Tarraco 1.5FR on 8000 miles, to get the same car this year was £550, add paying for maintenance plan, insurance and tyres over the lease you’re looking more like £630.
 
Sirrel Squirrel said:
There are some good deals out there on electric cars as the manufacturers and lease firms need to shift them. Haven't seen many deals lately on ICE cars.
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There were quite a lot of good deals on ICE vehicles before Christmas, electric cars however move quicker because of P11D reasons
 
Waiting on a Golf GTI via UK Carline no complaints so far the process was straightforward. I've had the order placed since September and I've been kept up to date with its progress.
 
Why not get the bus and spend less money?

I'm 99.999999% sure the OP has weighed up the options and is now asking for personal lease company options. For me leasing is removing the hassle of owning a car and the problem owning a car comes with - with my lease all i do is fuel and insure it. No servicing, breakdown, repairs, tyre costs etc, plus i get to drive a brand new motor. Unless i'm wrong and the OP is now slapping himself on the forehead, saying, "buy a used car, of course! Why didn't i think of that?!"

It's like the fast food threads, "i can make a better burger at home" - that's great, but that wasn't the question :)
 
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ivrytwr3 said:
No servicing, breakdown, repairs, tyre costs etc, plus i get to drive a brand new motor.
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... and you also get to pay a lot more overall, and you don't even own a car, so that's why I mentioned it. Mentioning a lack of tyre costs is just silly when you are paying a lot more overall for the "benefit" of leasing.

So to answer the OP's question re "any to avoid?", then I'd say all of them. You're entitled to your opinion though, but so am I.
 
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radderfire said:
... and you also get to pay a lot more overall, and you don't even own a car, so that's why I mentioned it. Mentioning a lack of tyre costs is just silly when you are paying a lot more overall for the "benefit" of leasing.

So to answer the OP's question re "any to avoid?", then I'd say all of them. You're entitled to your opinion though, but so am I.
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Not always! Mrs DRZ's ID.3 lease total cost is very substantially lower than the depreciation of buying new or even a 1yr old used one. Of course, we could have got something else but like-for-like, leasing is the cheapest possible way of getting that car. It works out cheaper than running her older (2018) Golf in true TCO terms as well.

Some leases don't stack up and the heyday of ridiculous lease deals is almost certainly behind us but there are still some cracking deals out there.
 
I would say it will always be possible to find a TCO that is cheaper than a lease, but it may mean buying an older car, and not necessarily your ideal car. Your TCO might be cheaper, but only because you have picked a particular, relatively expensive, car that you want to own. There are going to be lower TCO possibilities, but you are choosing to hire instead of own to get what you want. Each to their own, but I would never hire if I can afford to buy something outright that meets the necessary requirements, even if that means driving something less desirable.
 
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