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adam
 


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Or Asset Finance, effectively an HP agreement but there is a balloon as a final payment.
You therefore finance a lower capital at a lower % interest rate as lower risk vs. straightforward HP, but you are solely responsible for the balloon, also no mileage restrictions.
I’ve used it for 8 cars since 1999, if you are sensible with the balloon (Bank have a max value that is conservative anyway) you won’t lose out when you come to sell privately or trade in. I’ve always been able to sell for greater than balloon to give a decent deposit for the next car, on a couple of low mileage cars I’ve kept and just paid the balloon.
 Now Golf GTI PP, 7 speed DSG.
Ex D3 and D4 
 
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rrhool
 


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United Kingdom 2007 Discovery 3 TDV6 SE Manual Zermatt SilverDiscovery 3

Cash, cash, cash! Never bought a new car, never bought something I couldn't afford. Wouldn't dream of getting into a PCP deal.
 Richard


D3 SE 2007. Triumph 2.5Pi 1973. Ferguson TEA20 1948.



Discovery 2 4.0 ES 2001- Gone
Discovery 1 300Tdi ES '95 - Gone
Range Rover Classic '79 - Gone 
 
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LT
 


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I wouldn’t tie up a big chunk of capital in a depreciating asset. The last time I did that was in 2006 with my new D3 HSE. I kept it for 6 years to ride out the depreciation wave.

I’ve bought a few <£10k used cars for cash since then, but anything much over that I’d definitely rent. Not least for the backstops it provides. I can hand back the keys once I’ve paid 50% of the finance (regardless of mileage) and chuck back the keys at the end of the agreement (subject to mileage etc.). On a big Diesel engined vehicle that gives me peace of mind.
 2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
2010 D4 HSE (A bit bling)-GONE
2014 D4 HSE (Almost too bling)-GONE
2015 D4 HSE (A heated what?)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Written Off)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Surely the last!) PD1881 rims-GONE
2017 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography 
 
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pjm-84
 


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But that's why you don't buy new or buy wisely or don't buy at all and put large contributions into your pension pot.

The sums do add up though when you look back. Yikes.
  
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sasdiscos
 


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This is my point. The diversity of it all.

I will keep my car as long as I can, the wife also has a diesel Audi. At some point we will have to get rid of both and buy 1 car. If it suits at the time.

My d4 owes me nothing, hasn’t gone wrong. Shhhhh! And I love it.

But at 600quid tax, uncertainty of diesel etc etc, with the 3k miles I do I feel I’m being forced into buying a new clean car.

But that’s just it, what is a new clean car if it’s dirty again in 3 years.

I was always a save and buy type of person, but my brother who works in car sales tells me the wind had changed and nearly everyone is on pcp etc.

I hate the thought of paying out every month for 3 years. It feels like such a tie round my neck. Don’t ask me why it’s just what my dad engrained into me and I can’t seem to get out of that mind set.

Steve
 You remind me of a younger me, not much younger mind...perhaps even a little older!  
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LT
 


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pjm-84 wrote:
But that's why you don't buy new or buy wisely or don't buy at all and put large contributions into your pension pot.

The sums do add up though when you look back. Yikes.


Yes exactly. I’d rather use capital to buy assets I hope will appreciate in value, not guaranteed of course.

However, I know for sure that my FFRR is going to depreciate.
 2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
2010 D4 HSE (A bit bling)-GONE
2014 D4 HSE (Almost too bling)-GONE
2015 D4 HSE (A heated what?)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Written Off)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Surely the last!) PD1881 rims-GONE
2017 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography 
 
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defector
 


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Like some of the others here, i have always been a save and buy type (except house - but even that was paid off double quick).

If i had not, i would be absolutely bricking it at the moment having no income for the past three months, and possibly much longer yet to come, about paying the mortgage, car finance, PCP etc etc take your pick.
I'm afraid i learnt from previous hard hitting recessions.

If i must be truthful, although this Covid virus has and still does frighten me, the past three months have been quite enjoyable and relaxing and allowed me to get on with things i should have completed around the house and let me get on with some of my hobbies for which there was never enough time.

The only downside has been the plague of locusts that descended home from far flung Universities that keep raiding the fridge and every cupboard where food was stored. Big Cry Big Cry
  
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Dusty
 


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I bought my last D3 (2nd hand) outright and thought I’d turned over a new leaf not worrying about depreciation etc,etc.

All going well until it’s 6th birthday and before it’s 7th I’d spent over £4.5k keeping it in fine fettle. Got rid and spent less in HP on a D4 in manufactures warranty.

Unfortunately, with Land Rovers, they either cost a fortune for a new one or cost a fortune to maintain an old one Thud
 Discovery 4 HSE
SDV6
2015 
 
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