Hi. I'll be retiring soon and I'm considering buying my company Skoda Superb iv hatchback. It was registered in March 21 and has been regularly serviced and had done 82,000 miles. The buy price from the lease company is £10,800 which is a few £K below buying one through the trade, and I know it's not been driven hard.

I would appreciate anyone's thoughts on this. I'll be 67 and so will probably just buy it to run as long as I can.

Thanks in advance.

I am not familiar with the iv, the hatchaback nor the UK market, but I think if you like the car, and it can suit your purpose, it is a clever idea.

I have done this in the past in a ouple of occasions, getting your "work" car as personal (going through the proper channels of course) and it has been always a smart choice.

Obviously, you are also lucky you like the car the company selected as a company car ... 😄

That would be a bargain for a 4 and 1/2 year old car, rather than paying a small fortune for a new / newer one. And the best thing is you already know its history and you like it. If looked after it will serve - and last- well.

If you like it and you know it's had a good life, then why not? It's definitely not expensive. It takes the doubt out of wondering what sort of a life it's had before you got it. When I went back self-employed, I bought a van off the fleet of the company I'd been working for because I knew it'd been looked after and it's been great

I can’t see a downside to this seeing as you know it’s history and getting it cheap.

Assuming iV were all auto, has the DSG been serviced twice by now? If not then once by the book but Skoda’s change of oil service interval from 40k to 80k seemed bonkers; so that would be a good one to keep it going.

The DQ400-e 6 speed DSG fitted to a PHEV has a 40,000 miles service interval.

1 hour ago, travs said:

I can’t see a downside to this seeing as you know it’s history and getting it cheap.

Assuming iV were all auto, has the DSG been serviced twice by now? If not then once by the book but Skoda’s change of oil service interval from 40k to 80k seemed bonkers; so that would be a good one to keep it going.

1 hour ago, Evolution13 said:

The DQ400-e 6 speed DSG fitted to a PHEV has a 40,000 miles service interval.

Good points. I'll check it in the service history. Thanks.