I took the Yeti for its first oil change service today as its a year old on 23rd March. I'm at just under 9k miles, having taken early retirement in November and moved to Fife I'm not clocking up many miles compared to when I lived/worked on Isle of Skye. The nokian weatherproof all season tyres fitted before I moved have 8mm tread still on them. 

The impressive bit is that I came home to an email with a high quality video of my car inspection, showing suspension, brakes and tyres etc. all looking good.

This is a personal lease car so I have it for another year, but I might want to keep it longer or buy it outright as its perfect for my needs. Looking at the Karoq and Kodiaq today in the showroom did nothing for me I'm afraid.

Are you sure you can buy it?

If it doesn’t have a final to keep value you may not be able to legally, depending on the type of deal you took out.

Bizarrely a friend or spouse may be able to by negotiating with the leases company even though you can’t.

Me neither, Karoq too large externally for my needs. I have just had first service at 9,400. I bought the first 2 services for £279 deal as it seemed too good to miss. Only found it by burrowing down into depths of dealers web site when I was holding for "Service", they didn't know about it until I pointed it out but were happy to set it up when I asked.

Edited 21 March, 20188 yr by Expatman

27 minutes ago, kenfowler3966 said:

Are you sure you can buy it?

If it doesn’t have a final to keep value you may not be able to legally, depending on the type of deal you took out.

Bizarrely a friend or spouse may be able to by negotiating with the leases company even though you can’t.

 

Yes I meant a friend can buy it if that's what it takes. I've still a year to decide. I'm sure someone posted on here that they were given options to extend their PCH deal and also given a purchase price.

With a lease you have no automatic right to buy..... however, plenty of people are contacted to see if they would like to..... (who generally tell the leasing company that they have used up their mileage allowance as it may just lower the asking price......)

On 21/03/2018 at 15:11, MarieK said:

I took the Yeti for its first oil change service today as its a year old on 23rd March. I'm at just under 9k miles, having taken early retirement in November and moved to Fife I'm not clocking up many miles compared to when I lived/worked on Isle of Skye. The nokian weatherproof all season tyres fitted before I moved have 8mm tread still on them. 

The impressive bit is that I came home to an email with a high quality video of my car inspection, showing suspension, brakes and tyres etc. all looking good.

This is a personal lease car so I have it for another year, but I might want to keep it longer or buy it outright as its perfect for my needs. Looking at the Karoq and Kodiaq today in the showroom did nothing for me I'm afraid.

My car is about the same age Marie, picked it up on March 1st last year and again it's on a lease. Just curious whether your car gave you a service warning that it needed a service, i.e. set for annual service or whether you just booked it in for a service yourself? My last car an Octavia gave me service warnings every year the way it was setup, thus far no warnings on the Yeti but it is just a little bit over 8000 miles, maybe too early or maybe set for a variable service. I did get a letter from Skoda recently mentioning services but no real recommendation as to when it needed its first service, just that it should have at least one service during the time that you had the car and that if you didn't do that there would be a charge for that at the end of the deal.

 

49 minutes ago, AllanDJ said:

My car is about the same age Marie, picked it up on March 1st last year and again it's on a lease. Just curious whether your car gave you a service warning that it needed a service, i.e. set for annual service or whether you just booked it in for a service yourself? My last car an Octavia gave me service warnings every year the way it was setup, thus far no warnings on the Yeti but it is just a little bit over 8000 miles, maybe too early or maybe set for a variable service. I did get a letter from Skoda recently mentioning services but no real recommendation as to when it needed its first service, just that it should have at least one service during the time that you had the car and that if you didn't do that there would be a charge for that at the end of the deal.

 

 

Mine was set for one year or 9000 odd miles. The year was due up today in fact.

If you check on the maxidot under service it should tell you when its due.

Edited 23 March, 20188 yr by MarieK

You can check anytime, how many days / miles until service due

on the maxidot go into settings and just scroll down to the service and click on it

 

Regarding trying to buy at end of PCH, all you can do is ask,  if they choose to offer a price (and leaseCo don't have to), then its up to you if you accept the price.  

Due to some legal oddity I don't think you can buy it, but another person (including spouse can).  I think it might be a VAT thing to avoid it being a conditional sale (which gets different VAT treatment to a hire) and avoids a VAT clawback

 

Edited 23 March, 20188 yr by SurreyJohn

Hi Marie, A year already! I got a video sent to me when mine had its service and 2nd MOT it seems to be common practice now. Oh and it passed the MOT without any comments   I had a PCP and bought mine and like you say the Karoq is not for me either.