Time to sell the car

[Vedubber]

For this exact reason I have a £300 run around that I use for shopping trips and car park related stuff.

I don't trust any one these days. So many people do not give a flying duck about other people's property.

[p3asa]

For this exact reason I have a £300 run around that I use for shopping trips and car park related stuff.

I was the same for a couple of years. It was great but I also found myself still parking out of the way  I got myself a Skoda estate for £350 from Gumtree, kept it for a couple of years then sold it for £150ish.

As for the Golf, I just refuse to go into car parks and only park nose to tail and when I follow my football team every week I need to wait until both cars have parked in front and behind before I leave the car!!

My kids think I'm a weirdo and they are probably right  Although the 3 of them now have their own cars and they do pretty much the same as me but they will take more risks 

I'd get another run about for this very reason if it wasn't for the fact we already have 5 cars and turned the front garden in to off street parking and the neighbours think its Steptoe & Sons yard 

[fredgroves]

You just have to accept that any car is not going to remain perfect.

Whilst having a stone chip, dink or a dent knocks the sugar off your pudding, that's life.

Either you curse and swear, maybe repair or well, there isn't really an "or".

I'm not saying its not annoying, but once you have one or two minor blemishes, you get less cross as the others inevitably mount up. I was spitting fur a few weeks after I got my GTD and realised that the white thing on my bonnet wasn't bird poo but a large stone chip... but its still there, along with half a dozen others now.

I guess you could buy a 35k car and get one of those garage storage bubble things, leave it in that and never take it out unless you are polishing it, but really, just buy one of those ornaments and keep it on your mantelpiece - its far cheaper than a car. I'd probably choose something more exotic than a Golf though if I wanted a collectors piece.

Your car isn't an investment piece (well, not unless maybe you can keep it for 100 years), a car is just a depreciating money pit.

[mcmaddy]

I always park in two bays in the furthest corner in supermarkets and I couldn't give a s4it what others think. It's my car and it's expensive so I'll do what I want with it.

[david25]

Get one of those cheap leases, for the £4000 you plan to lose.

Instead get one of those Up! deals for £60 per month (plus £1000 deposit).

Last month, you could have got a Tiguan (for the wife) for only £120 inc deposit.

[fredgroves]

Remember of course, just because its not your car on a lease, doesn't mean that you don't have to get the dents and scrapes removed before it goes back...

My top tip - never let the lease company charge you for the damage, get it fixed yourself before it goes back - even if it means taking 3 years of minor damage and fixing it all with one bill. It will definitely be less than what the lease company want to sting you for!

[Mark V GTD]

And be aware of what is actually acceptable damage - you will be surprised!

[david25]

Sure, just work out the estimates costs, the Up will cost £2500 over two years (plus damage repairs at the end) versus your planned loss.

[TurboTrev]

Instead get one of those Up! deals for £60 per month (plus £1000 deposit).

Where is that deal?

[Mark V GTD]

Where is that deal?

http://www.centralukvehicleleasing.co.uk/vehicle/detail/53745/VOLKSWAGEN-UP-HATCHBACK.html

Most of their VW deals are financed through VWFS by  the way.