« Reply #83 on: 15 September 2015, 14:38 »
Sorry your I hear about the car Jon H.
Not so much the car but the way it was taken and the mental and £££ scars left behind.
The insurance thing with leased cars seemed to be the norm going from threads on the willy waving R forum when I last visited some while ago.
The leasee loses the deposit and all payments made but the insurance has to recompence the lease company.
A lot of insurance deals don't apply to leased cars unfortunately.
An interesting point about leased cars and thefts in general though. As said, there seems to be a lot of leased cars stolen and it makes you wonder in a 'conspiracy theory' way that the small lease companies offered very low monthlies to grab people in yet the sizeable deposits get kept by the leasing company, even after total loss - it's the finance company that have to be reimbursed for their missing lump of metal.
Makes you wonder if someone somewhere within the finance companies is up to no good.
Maybe VW are hiring hit men to make sure there aren't too many lease cars hitting the auctions in one hit killing the used values?!!!
More than likely it's just the very high number of leased cars that make it look like they're being the ones targeted.
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