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The process

How it works

From first enquiry to a vehicle on your drive, and what happens at the other end. No surprises, and honest timescales.

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In short

Arranging a short-term lease takes five steps: tell us the requirement, receive a written quotation, complete an application, get approved, and take delivery. In-stock vehicles can be delivered in as little as 3 to 5 working days from a signed order form and payment. At the end of the agreement we collect the vehicle — there is nothing to sell and no residual value risk sitting with you.

Start to finish

The five steps

Tell us what you need

Vehicle type, roughly how long for, monthly mileage and your delivery postcode. That is enough to start. If you are not sure whether you want a subscription or a fixed lease, say so — that is our job, not yours.

Written quotation

Monthly payment, initial payment, mileage allowance, excess mileage rate, delivery charge and lead time. All of it in writing, before you apply for anything.

Application

A short online application, business or personal. We will tell you exactly what documentation is needed first, so you are not chasing paperwork mid-process.

Approval

Straightforward applications are often decided the same working day. Specialist cases — new companies, overseas structures, non-status — take longer because a person reads them.

Delivery

In-stock vehicles can arrive in as little as 3–5 working days from a signed order form and payment. Delivered to your home or business anywhere in mainland UK.

How long it takes

Realistic timescales

Quotation
Usually the same working day
Standard application decision
Often same day, sometimes 24–48 hours
Specialist application decision
Typically 2–10 working days depending on complexity
In-stock vehicle delivery
As little as 3–5 working days from signed order and payment (GL / GPC reference vehicles). Sooner if a credit line is in place.
Pre-order vehicle delivery
Depends on the supplying fleet — we will give you the honest date
End-of-contract collection
Arranged in the final weeks of the agreement

Handing it back

At the end of the agreement

This is where leasing gets a bad reputation, usually because of end-of-contract charges people were not expecting. Here is exactly how it works.

  • We contact you first. Typically four to six weeks before the end date, to arrange collection or discuss extending.
  • Mileage is checked. If you are over your allowance, the excess mileage rate you were quoted at the start applies. There is no new number.
  • Condition is assessed against our own published return standards, not the BVRLA fair wear and tear standard. If you keep the vehicle beyond 18 months, BVRLA fair wear and tear applies instead. We follow the BVRLA code of conduct throughout.
  • Damage beyond those standards is rechargeable. If you know about a kerbed alloy or a cracked screen, getting it repaired yourself is usually cheaper than being recharged.
  • Then it is finished. No sale, no part exchange, no negotiation over what the car is worth.
Our advice: read our return standards at the start of your agreement, not at the end. They are short, they are published, and they remove almost every end-of-contract surprise.

Answers

Frequently asked questions

One month, on part of the fleet. Realistically most of what we hold sits on 3, 6, 9 or 12 month terms, and that is where the pricing makes sense. Below about three months the arithmetic turns against a fixed lease — you are still paying an up-front rental sized for a proper contract, spread across very few months — so a subscription is almost always the cheaper way to buy a few weeks of motoring.

Three to five working days is achievable on anything we physically hold, counted from the moment the order form is signed and the money has cleared, not from your first email. An existing credit line shortens that further. Where a vehicle is still inbound to us we are at the mercy of the supplying fleet’s timetable, and we would rather quote you four weeks and be right than quote one and be wrong.

One payment, larger than the rest, usually sized at one to three months’ rental. It is not a deposit and it is not held for you — it is rental, paid early, and it reduces nothing at the end. A refundable deposit is a separate matter: sometimes required, and decided by the underwriters on the strength of the application rather than by us. Whatever applies to you appears on the quotation in writing before you sign anything.

Because bundling it would cost you money and control. Keeping the policy in your own name protects your no-claims history, lets you set the excess and lets you shop the renewal. The one snag is that some mainstream insurers get uneasy about subscriptions and short leases; if yours does, we can point you at a broker who writes this class of business every day.

We come and get it. Nothing to advertise, nobody to haggle with, and no exposure to whatever the used market happens to be doing that month. Condition is judged against the standards we publish, which are our own rather than the BVRLA’s — with one exception. Pass eighteen months in the same vehicle and BVRLA fair wear and tear takes over. We work to the BVRLA code of conduct in every case.

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Next step

Start with a quote

Tell us what you need and when you need it. We will come back with real availability and a written quote — usually the same working day.

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