Brexit ! British car industry non existence ,make it on our own !
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If you are buying second-hand I tend to think company vans from any business with multi-driver usage, or anything ex-rental fleet is a far more hazardous purchase than a privately owned vehicle. Company / rental vehicles may have a full service record but they are often the ones flying past you, right up your rear-end on the motorway, or cutting you up when traffic filters to a single lane. The accelerator only has three settings, Off / Launch from traffic lights / Full speed. Generally less well cared for when you just drop it back and pass the keys on the next driver.
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I recently purchased an ex demo van, 12 miles on clock, put the lump through in first year- nicer rebate than normal thank you, then put all running expenses through. I did look at trading it in as I do a fair bit of mileage each year but at a year old they wanted to give me half it’s cost and the replacement van would cost me the same as the original new one? So now this will run for a few years or more until it has paid for itself before I contemplate a new one, unless I can sell it privately for a good price next year.
Rag the works van, me? Never!
Black boxes on fleet vans mean that they may not be such a risk any more.
yep, but not at silly interest - it would become taxable income for yourself I think. When we bought vans a few years ago, it was on a loan by the missus, so the buisness basically services the loan but uses the van,. No different to leasing from a garage. Don't register vans to the business as, this becomes a capitol asset.
Somewhere I’ve got a claim form with “not to be used for future reference!” written across it. I’d hit the same concrete post twice, each time ripping the nearside wing off.
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