stevegarside wrote:After careful consideration, i have decided to buy a van. What with hiring one at around £150 a week, I have found to buy a 5 year old renault master for around £3500 (no vat) on finance will be around £150 per MONTH! Even maintaining it myself it will still be a lot cheaper and will cut my overheads by more than half! If I have a van on my driveway, I know too many people for it to fail, I can even do the 'man with a van' thing at weekends.
Craig Souter wrote:Well, I've bought new on a lease deal - and my advice is buy a used van, ex-renter, low miles.
Or something unfashionable, low miles - you see perfectly good SEATs going through the auctions, the dealers don't want them, and you know they are just Caddies with another label.
You need the advantage of low miles, you don't need the depreciation. If I do 65k miles in a year, the van is dead in two years, and I'd rather pay 2k a year for that van than 4k, which is the least it costs in a new one.
The renters are always well maintained, the companies sell them before it gets to MOT time. Pick carefully, and be sure you get all the keys -
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Darren wrote:Craig Souter wrote:Well, I've bought new on a lease deal - and my advice is buy a used van, ex-renter, low miles.
Or something unfashionable, low miles - you see perfectly good SEATs going through the auctions, the dealers don't want them, and you know they are just Caddies with another label.
You need the advantage of low miles, you don't need the depreciation. If I do 65k miles in a year, the van is dead in two years, and I'd rather pay 2k a year for that van than 4k, which is the least it costs in a new one.
The renters are always well maintained, the companies sell them before it gets to MOT time. Pick carefully, and be sure you get all the keys -
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stevegarside wrote:I am not necessarily after a renault master, just an example I saw. I would LOVE a tranny (think that as how you want) but generally sticking with that plan. Got to sort the money out first though. Contacted business link, hopefully for a grant of some sort. Starting in the new tax year, roll on!!
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