Re: O/T JOB DILEMMA : Sun Dec 04, 2011 10:45 pm  

rover49 wrote:

We are not given a money option and have to drive a company car, which gets a few colleagues up in arms, but the way I look at it is this, I get a decent motor, changed every 3 years or so (18 months in my case as I will reach the 85k), serviced, tyres, insured, taxed and I can take it abroad on holiday for around £43 per month additional tax. If it breaks down I get a hire car delivered to where its broken down within 2 hours, they take the car away and return it fixed.

Taking a cash option means you have to buy a decent car, suffer the depreciation, insure it, tax it, service it, pay for tyres and if it breaks down, provide a replacement.

No brainer for me.

Or lease.

Re: O/T JOB DILEMMA : Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:12 am  

Cronus wrote:

He lives in Kent somewhere and like me he's not office-based but has a territory - his covers most of East and North London, plus Essex and Kent. Most of his working week is spent whizzing around London by tube or train, but duty often calls him further afield when he would normally require a car.

I think it's still worth his time investigating car-share clubs, there seem to be plenty of them in the London area

Re: O/T JOB DILEMMA : Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:14 am  

getdownmonkeyman wrote:

Or lease.

The problem with "personal contract leasing" (which is not really a lease at all), could be the overrun mileage charges at the end of the contract